British Commandos and US Rangers after Dieppe

Update from Pete R. 24/5/10 : This photo which is well publicised is also in the book by Will Fowler called The Commandos at Dieppe. I have seen it referred to as being US Ranger Sgt Alex Szima accepting a light for his cigarette apparently from a Sgt A. "Bunny" Austin. The tall man behind is Cpl William Brady. Also in the photo but partially hidden is Staff Sgt Kenneth Stempson. Alex Szima died on 13th September 2006. Certainly Szima who was from Florida , Brady who was from Texas, and Stempson from Minnesota, were all in the 1st Battallion of the US Rangers with No.4 Commando at Dieppe. However the A. Austin is not mentioned on the US Rangers website. In the book The Fighting Fourth by James Dunning he refers to A.B. Austen as "a War Correspondent who had landed with us and was in the beachhead on Orange One".

Update 3/11/11 by Pete R. Photo © IWM (H 22580) reproduced here under the terms of the IWM Non-Commercial Licence. The IWM desc of the photo is "An American soldier receives a light for his cigarette from a compatriot at Newhaven on his return from Dieppe. This was the first time that American troops had seen action in Europe during the Second World War."