BEAVEN, Harwood Frederick George
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Rank:
Troop Sergeant Major
Unit / Base:
40RM Commando
45RM Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Number:
PLY/X 458
Honours & Awards:
Operations:
Troop Sergeant Major Harwood Beaven was awarded the Military Medal for bravery and great devotion to duty whilst operating with the Allied Armies in North-West Europe.
- 1946/47 serving in a Commando Training team attached to the French Commando School in Algiers*.
- 1948 awarded the Croix de Guerre with Silver Star by the French Government *.
Sources
London Gazette 37127, page 3090.
Commando Association newsletter 65 (1977).
* Award Recommendations French to British / National Archives file WO373/186/87.(this file contains reference to three who were awarded the C.de G.)
* Account about the Algiers Commando School in the book 'A Plain Russett - Coated Captain", author Capt John Eddy Day RM.
[Image] A Plain Russet Coated Captain author Capt. John Day
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