BAIRD, Alexander Fleming

Known as: 
Fleming
Rank: 
Lieutenant
Unit / Base: 
Training Centres WW2
'Commando Mountain Warfare Training Centre' (CMWTC)
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Marines
Service: 
Royal Navy
Died : 
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Age: 
81
Alexander Fleming Baird RM

Obituary*
Educated at Morgan Academy and Dundee High School he spent a brief time in the Fleet Air Arm before joining the RM Commandos. In 1945 he was on the staff of the CMWTC at St. Ives. On being demobbed he took up a post on a Tea and Rubber Plantation in Indonesia. He later returned to Dundee and settled in Broughty Ferry where he ran a second hand shop. He was married to Esme who died about 6 years before him. His sister Mrs Elizabeth de Armond who resided in Canada said of her brother " He touched a lot of people and was a very kind man."

Sources
History of the CMWTC (Linked Content below).

List of RM Commandos provided by RY (former CA Sec and CBF).
Registers of Deaths in Dundee
*[Image] Report in the Dundee Courier and Advertiser 17 May 2006.

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