MACPHERSON, Michael Stuart
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Rank:
Captain
Unit / Base:
40RM Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Died :
Monday, October 9, 1944
Killed in action or died of wounds
Cemetery/Memorial:
Operations:
Captain Michael Macpherson, Officer Commanding 'Q' Troop, died during operations at Sarande, Albania. Son of Commander and Mrs. A.D.L. Macpherson of Stonehouse, Daventry.
Prior to commando service he was a Lieutenant in Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation 1 (M.N.B.D.O.1) and in 1941 participated in the rearguard action to evacuate allied forces from Crete.
Sources
CWGC.
Navy Lists / Bi Monthly / June 1941 and December 1941.
40 RM Commando War Diary 9 Oct. 1944 Appdx. 'C' / Report on the attack at Sarande.
Report on his death in the Northampton Mercury 10 November 1944.
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Photo of grave in Gallery:
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