44RM Commando
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Displaying 1 - 99 of 99'RM Commando Officers Aug.1943.'
Navy Lists August 1943 RM Commando officers.
3 Cdo Bde Third Jungle Book issue 9
One of a series of the Magazine of the Third Commando Brigade produced and published between 1944 and 1946 for issue to those serving in the Brigade. In a No 1 Commando Newsletter dated 27th Feb 1944 it mentions about the new Brigade Magazine being published. It states that "From this unit Lieut. J.R. Turpin is publishing advisor, and Lieut. A.J. Davies is Art Director on the publishing staff."
3 Commando Brigade, Burma Operations
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40 Commando RM
- 40RM Commando, and the slightly later formed 41RM Commando, would be the only RM Commando units to consist entirely of volunteers. All Army Commandos were volunteers.
44RM Cdo. Officers, June.'44
Extract from the Navy Lists
44RM Cdo. Officers, Oct.'44
Extract from the Navy Lists
44RM Commando
Formed as 44 Royal Marine Commando, Royal Marines, on the 1st August 1943 from the disbanded 3rd Battalion, Royal Marines. Their specialist training from the 1st August to the the 6th September 1943 began at Ashurst. This was to prepare them for the arduous training to come at Achnacarry. Their first CO was Lt Col. F.C. Horton RM.
44RM Commando Nominal Roll
This nominal roll of No.44 Royal Marine Commando, Royal Marines, is compiled from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database, the No.44 Royal Marine Commando War Diary Jan to Dec 1945, the original Commando Association newsletters, resources in the National Archives, research by members and followers of this archive, and various other resources. In preparing this list, we acknowledge that it is very likely there are omissions. Research continues.
ANDREWS, Percy James
ANDREWS, William Andy
Obituaries Commando Association newsletter 120.
ASHWORTH, John Mark
AUCOTT, Leslie Frank
3 Commando Brigade Signals. Post war member of the Commando Association from Wigston, Leicestershire.
Sources
Commando Association newsletter 92.
List of RM Commandos provided by RY (former CA Sec and CBF).
BAKER, Harold Charles Hill
BEACH, George Edgar
BECKINGHAM, Harry
BEDFORD, John Robert
BOLAM, Edward Charles
BOWEN, Albert Victor
BURTON, Harold Rex
- October 1944 Second in Command 46RM Commando [2].
COLE, T.G.
Post war member of the Commando Association last known residing London E2.
Sources
Commando Association Lost Legion List 3.
CONWAY, Robert
COOPER, Joseph
Post war member of the Commando Association from Denton, Manchester.
Sources
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 96 (1993).
DAVIES, Desmond, Victor
Post war member of the Commando Association from Northfield, Birmingham.
Sources
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 88 (1989).
DOOLEY, Arthur
DRYSDALE, Douglas Burns
DURNFORD, Anthony Ralph
Sources
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 117 (2003).
EARWAKER, Ernest Frederick John
EDWARDS, Vincent
ELLIS, Arthur James Stanley
FARRELL, William Henry
FLEMING, Robert Frew
CWGC.
FOOT, Frank
CWGC.
FOUCHE, Stefanus Louis
GIBSON, Eric Hookway
GIGG, George Thomas
CWGC.
GRANT, Ronald Douglas
CWGC.
HAVERSON, Ronald Cecil
HAW, Charles Walter
HEATH, Alfred
CWGC.
HESP, George Taylor
Corporal George Hesp, 'X' troop, died during operations at Kangaw, Burma. Son of George Arthur and Elizabeth Hesp; husband of Edna Hesp, of Leeds, Yorkshire.
HICKS, Douglas Stanley
HODCROFT, Stanley
HODNETT, Walter Herbert
KELLAWAY, F.C.
KEMSLEY, George William
KILLINGBECK, E.W.
Also served in 44RM Commando. Post war member of the Commando Association residing Kingsbury, London.
Sources
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 119 issued Sept.2004.
CA List of WW2 RM Commando members.
KIRBY, Peter
CWGC
LAVENDER, William Edwin
LEWIS, Frank Gordon
CWGC
MACKENZIE, Laurence Frederick
Post war member of the Commando Association residing Ilford, Essex.
Sources
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 110 (2000).
MACKINNON, James
[1] CWGC
[2] ROH in the book '44 RM Commando, Achnacarry to the Arakan', author Tony Mackenzie.
MANGER, Harold Charles Walter
MARSHALL, Arthur Allan
CWGC.
MARTIN, Arthur
MCDONALD, Dennis
CWGC.
MORRISON, James
Sources
CWGC.
Registers of Reports of Deaths - Naval Ratings / National Archives file ADM 104/134.
MUSTOW, Joseph
CWGC.
NELSON, Desmond
O'BRIEN, Albert Peter
Lieutenant Albert Peter O'Brien, 47RM Commando, was awarded the Military Cross for gallant and distinguished service in operations in North-West Europe in July 1944 [1].
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O'REILLY, John
OWEN, Alan Roger
OWEN, John Ivor Headon
PAGE, Thomas Harold
PALMER, Charles Francis
PARISH, Kenneth Peter
PAYNE, Leonard William
CWGC
Registers of Reports of Deaths - Naval Ratings / National Archives file ADM 104/135.
PEMBERTON, Thomas William
PHILLIPS, Hedley Joyce
PINKNEY, James
CWGC
Registers of Reports of Deaths - Naval Ratings / National Archives file ADM 104/135.
POLKINGHORNE, Eric
[1] CWGC.
RICHARDSON, James Walker Freer
RICHARDSON, Leon
[1] CWGC
SADLER, Frederick George
Sources
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 90 (1990).
List of RM Commandos provided by RY (former CA Sec and CBF).
SCHOFIELD, Harry
SCOTT, Douglas
CWGC.
SHEATHER, Allan Cecil
CWGC
SHORE, Donald
CWGC.
SMITH, Frank
SPENCER, John
STOCKLEY, Gordon Herbert
- October 1944 Acting Major, Holding Operational Commando
- December 1944 Acting Lieutenant Colonel, Commanding Officer 44 RM Commando.
STOCKWELL, John Neville
STRAW, Maurice Kenneth
STURGES, Edward Murray
- 1 December 1939 commissioned Temporary Second Lieutenant, Royal Marines [2].
SULLIVAN, T.W.
TERNENT, John White
CWGC.
THOMPSON, David
TUNNELL, Edward
WALTERS, H.J.
Lance Corporal Walters, R.A.M.C. attached 44 RM Commando, was wounded 28 January 1945 during operations in Burma.
WALTERS, Stanley Kenneth
CWGC
No.44 RM Commando War Diary entry.
WATKINS, William John
WATTS, Ernest John
Marine Ernest Watts died of acute meningitis at the 28th Indian General Hospital, Hong Kong.
Sources
CWGC.
Registers Of Reports Of Deaths - Naval Ratings / National Archives file ADM104/138.
WHITE, Augustus Ronald
Lieutenant Augustus White received a Mention in Despatches for distinguished service while operating with the Army in Burma and on the Eastern Frontier of India [1][1a].
WILD, Harold
WILLIAMS, Albert Edward
[1] CWGC
WINTGENS, Stanley Gordon
WOOD, Maurice Arthur Ponsonby
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