FEEBERY, Cyril
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Rank:
Corporal (later Squadron Sergeant Major)
Unit / Base:
8 Commando
'Layforce'
'Special Boat Section'
Regiment/Corps:
Grenadier Guards
Army Air Corps
Service:
Army
Number:
2615284
Honours & Awards:
Guardsman Feebery was wounded in 1940 whilst deployed to France as part of the British Expeditionary Force. Volunteereed for the Commandos and served as a Corporal in No.8 Commando. Embarked for the Middle East as part of 'B' Bn Layforce.
On the disbandment of Layforce, he joined the Folbot Section, later the Special Boat Section, and trained as a canoeist under Captain Roger Keyes VC to conduct commando operations from submarines. When in January 1943 the SBS was absorbed into the Special Air Service (SAS), Feebery took part in raids on Benghazi and Tripoli. With the creation of the Special Boat Squadron (SBS), Feebery served as Squadron Sergeant Major under Major the Earl Jellicoe. He has captured by Italian forces after a raid on airfields in Sardinia, and later escaped from Prisoner of War camp in Italy to regain the Allied side. After recovering from malaria, he became Squadron Sergeant Major, Headquarters Squadron, 1st SAS Regiment in 1944. He participated in SAS operations in the Dijon area of France, then in Northern France and Belgium.
On the disbandment of Layforce, he joined the Folbot Section, later the Special Boat Section, and trained as a canoeist under Captain Roger Keyes VC to conduct commando operations from submarines. When in January 1943 the SBS was absorbed into the Special Air Service (SAS), Feebery took part in raids on Benghazi and Tripoli. With the creation of the Special Boat Squadron (SBS), Feebery served as Squadron Sergeant Major under Major the Earl Jellicoe. He has captured by Italian forces after a raid on airfields in Sardinia, and later escaped from Prisoner of War camp in Italy to regain the Allied side. After recovering from malaria, he became Squadron Sergeant Major, Headquarters Squadron, 1st SAS Regiment in 1944. He participated in SAS operations in the Dijon area of France, then in Northern France and Belgium.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/13.
London Gazette 36637, page 3605.
Award Recommendations / National Archives file WO373/95/777.
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/66 and WO417/70.
His memoirs in the book 'Guardsman and Commando', author Cyril Feebery DCM.
[Image] Collection of John Henry Bowers [more..] courtesy of his son Frank.
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