SMITH, Stanley Reginald
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Known as:
Stan
Rank:
Guardsman
Unit / Base:
4 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Grenadier Guards
Service:
Army
Number:
2616557
Born:
Wednesday, March 31, 1920
Died :
Friday, July 4, 2003
Place died:
Buckie, Grampian
No.4 Commando and 1st Special Service Brigade. Took part in Operation Jubilee at Dieppe.
Stan Smith was the Founder and Chairman of the Edinburgh Branch of the Commando Association. For many years Stan provided free of charge all printing, stationary, and headed notepaper for the Commando Association, the Commandos' Benevolent Fund, and also items of stationary for the Edinburgh and Central Ayrshire Branches.
His wife Rita was also a great supporter of the Edinburgh Branch. In 1984 they moved out of Edinburgh to the North of Scotland but due to business connections in the city remained in close contact.
Source
Partial nominal roll for Dieppe in Archive.
Commando Association newsletters including 78 (1984), 80 (1985), 86 (1988), 88 (1989), 90 (1990).
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 120 (2005).
Registers of Deaths in Banff.
[Image] Collection of LSgt. Joe Rogers MM, No.2 Cdo and Secretary of the Edinburgh Branch.
Photo of Commando in Gallery:
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