MCDAID, Francis

Rank: 
Trooper
Unit / Base: 
'30 Commando Assault Unit'
Prior Police Service: 
Glasgow City Police
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Armoured Corps
Service: 
Army
Number: 
14317298
Died : 
Tuesday, October 5, 1943
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age: 
21
Cemetery/Memorial: 
Trooper Francis McDaid, 34 Army Troop, was killed in action during operations in the Aegean when his unit was attacked on Leros and bombed by enemy aircraft. He has no known grave. Son of William and Mary McDaid, of Glasgow.
Francis was a serving Police Officer from Glasgow who volunteered for the Commandos as part of the Police Intakes that commenced in 1942. He is amongst those named on the Glasgow Police WW2 Memorial Plaque located at the Glasgow Police Museum, Bell Street, Glasgow.
 
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/68.
IWM War Memorials Register ref. 87226. 
Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of the Legendary 30 Assault Unit, author Nicholas Rankin.
 
Notes
Also killed on this raid were Captain Belcher,  Bombardier Bancroft, and Fusilier Ashton.
 
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