MONTGOMERIE, Tom
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Rank:
Captain
Unit / Base:
4 Commando
'Special Boat Section'
Regiment/Corps:
Black Watch
Service:
Army
Number:
62629
Born:
Saturday, March 14, 1914
Birthplace:
Irvine, Ayrshire
Died :
Tuesday, August 18, 1942
Died on active service
Age:
28
Cemetery/Memorial:
Commissioned February 1934. Officer Commanding No.4 Commando 'A' Troop. Left the Commando 8 July 1941. Attached No.8 Infantry Training Centre until joining the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers in September 1941. Embarked for the Middle East arriving late November. Briefly attached to the 2nd Bn., Black Watch until nominally posted to the Middle East Commando in April 1942 having joined the Special Boat Section. Died as a result of a road accident 18 August 1942, SBS attached 'L' Detachment Special Air Service Regt. Son of the Hon. Francis Cuninghame Montgomerie and Alice Dudley Montgomerie, of Melrose, Roxburghshire.
Sources
The SAS and LRDG Roll of Honour.
No.4 Commando War Diary 30 June 1941.
ME Commando War Diary Nominal Roll of Officers on strength 1st SS Regt. 4th July 1942.
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/3.
Notes
The above are only brief details of his military record. The detailed military servce history for Captain Montgomerie can be found in the SAS and LRDG Roll of Honour Books
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