PEYTON, Thomas Grenville Pitt
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Rank:
Lieutenant
Unit / Base:
2 Commando
5 Independent Company
Regiment/Corps:
Kings Royal Rifle Corps
Service:
Army
Number:
112912
Died :
Saturday, March 28, 1942
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
20
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Operations:
Local Roll of Honour:
Lieutenant Thomas Peyton, 6 troop, was reported missing 28 March 1942 after Operation Chariot at St Nazaire, later confirmed killed in action. He has no known grave. Son of Ivor Eliot Peyton and Dorothy Helen Peyton, of Englemere Wood, Berkshire.
Attended Eton College from 1934-1939; volunteered for No.5 Independent Company and No.2 Commando; Section Officer of the commando contingent on motor launch ML192 tasked to assault the old entrance however their boat was hit by a large shell causing an explosion. All but 5 of the Commandos including Tom, aged just 20, were lost.
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Achives files WO417/2 and WO417/3.
St Nazaire Society website / James Dorrian.
[Image] Permission of Eton College; image from their Roll of Honour
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