BAYLY, Patrick Uniacke
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Rank:
Lieutenant Commander (later Vice Admiral)
Unit / Base:
'Royal Naval Beach Commandos'
Service:
Royal Navy
Honours & Awards:
Born:
Tuesday, August 4, 1914
Died :
Friday, May 1, 1998
Age:
83
Beachmaster with 'Mike' Royal Naval Beach Commando at Porto Paulo, Sicily, Salerno and on River Volturno, Italy, July 1943 to November 1943.
Service
Served aboard HMS Cicala on China Station, June 1938 - August 1939; served aboard HMS Durban, 9th Cruiser Sqdn in Far East, Nov. 1939 to July 1941; served with Naval Beach Commando School, HMS Armadillo, Glenfinnart, and No 1 Combined Training Centre, HMS Quebec, Inverary in GB, April 1942 - June 1943; served as Beachmaster with 'Mike' Royal Naval Beach Commando at Porto Paulo, Sicily, Salerno and on River Volturno, Italy, July 1943 - November 1943; served aboard HMS Mauritius, 15th Cruiser Sqdn in GB coastal waters, Mediterranean, Normandy Landings and North Sea, January 1944 - January 1945 and during Corfu Channel Incident, October 1946; commanded HMS Alacrity during Korean War, 1951-1952.
Sources
IWM Oral interview description as above [more....].
RN Beach Commando Memoranda No.79 dated 20 July 1944 (Extract from A.F.O.2709/44).
The Peerage website.
KBE - London Gazette 44600, page 6303.
CB - London Gazette 43529, page 2
DSC (Sicily) - London Gazette 36295, page 5540.
Bar to DSC (Salerno, Italy) - London Gazette 36526, page 2354.
2nd Bar to DSC (Korea) - London Gazette 39854, page 2765.
Legion of Merit, Degree of Legionnaire (Korea) - London Gazette 40406, page 919.
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