Harold Farmer

3973646 Trooper Harold Farmer, Welch Regiment attached to No.3 Commando. Photos and information courtesy of his son Garry Farmer. Posted by Pete R.

Garry adds "The following is taken directly from his service/casualty records:

20.8.1940. Enlisted aged 18yrs into the 17th (HD) Bn Welch Regt. Defensible Barracks, Pembroke Dock.
20.2.1941. Attached to airfield security duties at RAF Duxford in Cambridgeshire.
12.5.1942. Posted to Commando Depot (3 Cdo)
22.3.1943. Disembarked at Gibraltar and was then with 'H' Force North Africa and engaged in the campaign for Sicily
(This is where I believe his photo was taken)
6.6.1944. D Day, engaged in the Sword Beach landings as part of 1 Special Service Bde, where, he was wounded in action
by shrapnel to the head, he was evacuated to St Andrews Hospital, Billericay, Essex.
18.8.1944. Attended a Paratroop Course and qualified.
9.9.1944. Taken back on strength of 3 Commando and continued to serve until the end of the war.

Harold married Ada Guffogg on the 30th June 1945. Awarded the 1939-45 Star, Africa Star, Italy Star, France & Germany Star, Defence Medal & War Medal.

Harold, who was from the Bolton area, passed away on the 27th January 2004 aged 82