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No.12 Commando Para Troop. Photo credit Chris Rooney, son of Captain Rooney, originally from Lt. Peter Cruden.
Front row: L/Cpl Rudd, McCreevy, Sims, Collins, Tojo (Gamble), Cpl Joseph Crowley (later executed after capture whilst attached to 2 SAS), Cpl Jones (WIA), Hay;
2nd row(seated: Cpl Evans, Sgt McGinty, Lt Peter Cruden (WIA), Lt Ross Littlejohn MC (later executed after capture whilst attached to 2 SAS), Captain Oswald 'Micky' Rooney (later 2 SAS, broke his back August 1944), Lt. John Clapton MC (later with No.6 Cdo.), Lt John Lodwick (later with SBS/SAS), Wilson (KIA Normandy);
3rd row(standing): Sgt Page (WIA), L/Cpl Wilmerst, Self (WIA), ?, Walsh, K.Byjorklund (later 2 SAS), Skidmore, Lamb, L/Cpl McLelland, L/Cpl Jim Connor (later with No.6 Cdo) , Amos, Cpl Burns, Heraty (WIA), Leach, Boddy;
Back row: Lynch, Eager, Towse (WIA),Sgt Stanley Bolden MM (KIA with 2 SAS), Bolton (WIA)
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3710217 Corporal Joseph Patrick Crowley, 2nd, Special Air Service Regiment, A.A.C., died age 27 on 19 March 1945.
197229 Major Ross Robertson Littlejohn MC, 2nd, Special Air Service Regiment, A.A.C., died age 23 on 19 March 1945.
3316568 Corporal Stanley Bolden MM, 2nd, Special Air Service Regiment, A.A.C.,died age 24 on 27 March 1945.
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