RN Beach Commandos, Padstow Harbour

Photo from the collection of Pat Coffey, RN Beach Commando, courtesy of his son Jim Coffey.

Jim says, "My Father, Pat, is positioned front row with small arms only (body Guard) next to Petty Officer".
He was known by Family as Pat Coffey, it wasn’t until his first roll call in the Navy that he found that he was christened James Patrick Coffey. Apparently as a newly born he was entrusted to local girls to get him christened. They were told to christen him Patrick but they called him James after a brother who was killed in the first war."