No. 3 Commandos collect awards at the Palace

Published in the Liverpool Echo - Thursday 16 November 1944.
Image credits: British Newspaper Archive / © Trinity Mirror / Courtesy of The British Library Board.

No. 3 Commandos at the Palace, photographed after receiving their honours award.

[left to right]
Sgt. Edward George King. M.M. (London); R.S.M. John Duncan Allen, G.M. (Glasgow); Sgt. Edward Walsh. M.M. (Co. Cavan); Sgt. Maj. George Taylor, M.M. (Sunderland); C.S.M. Samuel Leyland, M.M. (St. Helens); C.S.M. Thomas Spears, M.M. (Co, Durham); Lieut. Joah Selwyn Denham, M.M. (Knottingley, Yorks.); and Sgt. John Dowling. M.M. (Liverpool).

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