Men of No.12 Commando in an ALC being lowered in to the sea to evacuate paratroopers after the successeful Bruneval raid.
Date: 12/09/2009
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Gdsm. Thomas Brindle, Para training at Northolt Aerodrome
Enlisted 19 April 1940; demobbed 15 March 1946.
3rd Bn. Irish Guards.
Service no. 2720672.
Attached No.3 Commando.
Wounded in North West Europe on the 1st August 1944 ( Casualty Lists ref WO417/80 ).
Post war member of the original Commando Association.
Listed in the obituaries of Commando Association newsletter 108 issued March 1999 as "No.3 Commando, Guardsman Thomas Brindle of Porthmadog, Gwynedd."
Thomas Brindle
b. 11.03.1920 Farnworth nr Bolton
d. 26.01.1999 Porthmadog Gwynedd.