Lance Corporal Brian Mullen
Brian was in No.4 Commando. This photo courtesy of Mary Crawford who adds the following information:
"Brian Mullen was with No 4 Commando during WWII and was my mother’s husband. Sadly, he was killed on D-Day at Pegasus Bridge and my mother passed away in 2008, having remarried after the war. I am her only ‘child’ – her daughter from her second marriage. My mother was an associate member of the NVA and the Landing Craft Association, and made a number of visits to Normandy during the last 25 years of her life. I know that she visited Pegasus Bridge and Brian’s grave at the war cemetery at Hermanville. I too had the privilege of visiting Normandy last year for the 65th anniversary of the Landings and was very moved by all I saw and heard. For your records, I do know that Brian took part in the Lofoten raids (1941) and in the Dieppe raid as you know. He was a talented artist and did some photography too in advance of D-Day and maybe other raids. Following the Dieppe raid he was stationed in Falmouth in 1943, where he met my mother who was in the WRNS. The pictures went to the then Ministry of Information. Photo plates of two paintings of his, depicting the landing craft journey to Dieppe appear in the book ‘Combined Operations’ published in 1943. An additional original picture of men preparing to disembark from their ship near Dieppe is held in the archive of the Imperial War Museum and can be viewed on their website"
In Memory of Lance Corporal 2075499 BRIAN JOSEPH MULLEN
Royal Engineers and No. 4, Commando
who died age 33 on 06 June 1944
Remembered with honour at HERMANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
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Date: 10/03/2011
Size: 3 items
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