DEWAR, Roy Seton
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Rank:
Marine
Unit / Base:
48RM Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Number:
PO/X115892
Born:
Thursday, October 4, 1923
Died:
2002
Place died:
Rugby, Warwickshire
Marine Roy Dewar from Rugby was seriously wounded 10/11 March 1945 when he stepped on a mine that blew his foot off during an assault on a German pillbox at Galathesche Sluis after crossing the River Maas to Overflakee (Operation Incalculable 11). Post war member of the Commando Association.
Sources
List of RM Commandos provided by RY (former CA Sec and CBF).
Account by Roy Dewar / Ken Ford, 'DDay Commando' (Sutton Publishing, 2005), pp171,172.
Article in the Rugby Advertiser 20 March 1945.
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 116 (2003).
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