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Displaying 1 - 15 of 15In October 1942 the 8th RM Battalion was disbanded and those who volunteered for, and passed the training, formed a new 41RM Commando. At the end of the war 41 RM Commando was disbanded.
In 1950 a new 41 Independent Commando was formed at Bickleigh before deploying to the war in Korea. Awarded a United States Presidential Unit Citation for services with the 1st Division United States Marine Corps at the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea, Nov/Dec. 1950. The Commando returned to Bickleigh to be disbanded there in 1952.
Marine Bernard Almond died in service, cause unknown to this archive.
Source: AFM ROH.
Notes
Unit shown as on AFM ROH. His death was announced in Navy News issue Aug 1961, p10, with his unit shown as 41 Commando RM.
Marine Martin Boulanger died in service, cause unknown to this archive.
[Sources: AFM ROH / Globe and Laurel March-April 1979 page 131].
[2] Globe and Laurel june 1971 edition.
Marine Gordon Hussey, married and from Plymouth, died at Freedom Fields Hospital Plymouth.
Sources
AFM ROH.
England & Wales Government Probate Death Index.
Lieutenant John McGregor, from Edinburgh, died at the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth.
Sources
AFM ROH.
England and Wales Government Probate Death Indices.
Lieutenant Patrick Ovens served for a period at the CBTC and is shown in a photo entitled "Commando Basic Training Centre - Officers Mess - 1945."
He joined 46RM Commando shortly before it was disbanded.
Post war he served as a Captain with 41 Independent Commando RM in Korea being awarded the Military Cross in 1951 for " gallant and distinguished service". [1]
Corporal Thomas Oxley died in service, cause unknown to this archive [Source: AFM ROH].
Marine Francis Sare died in service, cause unknown to this archive [Source: AFM ROH].
Joe Rogers MM
No 2 Commando
Bob Mewett
No 12 & No 1 Commando
Mick Collins
No 5 Commando