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WILLIAMS, D.B.

Corporal
PO/X109753
47RM Commando
Royal Marines
Member of the Commando Association from Morriston, Swansea.
 
Sources
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 75 (1982)
List of RM Commandos provided by RY (former CA Sec and CBF).
 

WILLIAMS, Raymond

Marine
PLY/X108521
47RM Commando
Royal Marines
Killed in action or died of wounds
Marine Raymond Williams died during operations against the German held small island of Kapelsche Veer which lies between the River Maas and the River Oudermaas. Son of William Edward and Marion Kate Williams, of Kingstanding, Birmingham.

WILSON, George McLeod

Marine
CH/X 102069
47RM Commando
Royal Marines
Killed in action or died of wounds
Marine George Wilson died during operations in Holland. Son of William and Jessie F. S. McL. Wilson, of Elgin, Morayshire. His Commando were clearing the enemy from a series of gun batteries along the dunes at Westkapelle from Zouteland to west of Groot Valkenisse and Klein Valkenisse.

WITHINGTON, John Vernon

Marine
PO/X 120713
47RM Commando
Royal Marines
Killed in action or died of wounds

Marine John Withington died during operations at Normandy, France. Son of William Edward and Ida Elizebeth Withington, of Gosport, Hampshire.

Sources
CWGC.
Registers of Reports of Deaths - Naval Ratings / National Archives file ADM 104/139.

WOOD, Eric Albert Benjamin

Colour Sergeant (Acting Regimental Sergeant Major)
CH/X 1135
47RM Commando
Royal Marines
British Empire Medal (BEM)
1936 King's Badgeman of 220 Squad [1].
1944 October Acting RSM of 47 RM Commando [2].
1 January 1946 awarded British Empire Medal (Military Division) [3].
 
Sources

WOOD, George Evelyn

Marine
CH/X 103876
47RM Commando
Royal Marines
George Evelyn Wood enlisted 3 April 1941, civil occupation Tractor Driver. Served in the Commandos from August 1943. Prisoner of war 7 June 1944 during operations at Port en Bessin, France. Member of the Commando Association residing Coggeshall, Essex.

WOOD, J.H.

Lance Corporal
PLY/X 111522
47RM Commando
Royal Marines

Post war member of the Commando Association.
 
Sources
Commando Association list of WW2 RM Commando members.

WOOD, John Peter Wentworth

Major (later Lieutenant Colonel)
47RM Commando
Royal Marines
Mentioned in Despatches
08.1943, Acting Temporary Captain and Adjutant, 47RM Commando on formation. 
10.1944, Acting Temporary Captain and Adjutant, 47RM Commando.
04.1945, Acting Temporary Major 47RM Commando.

WRIGHT, F.A.

Corporal
PO/X 118984
47RM Commando
Royal Marines
Post war member of the Commando Association.
 
Sources
Commando Association list of WW2 RM Commando members.
 

YOUNG, Robert James

Lance Corporal
CH/X 113009
47RM Commando
Royal Marines
Killed in action or died of wounds
Lance Corporal Robert Young died during operations at Normandy, France. Son of James and Lydia Young, of Castleford, Yorkshire; husband of M. Young.
 
Sources
CWGC.

ZAMMIT, Robert

Marine
PO/X 106117
47RM Commando
Royal Marines
Killed in action or died of wounds
Marine Robert Zammit died at the EMS Hospital, Park Prewett, Basingstoke, from the wounds he received during operations at Normandy, France. Son of Edward and Josephine Zammit; husband of Gertrude Ellen Ethel Zammit, of Bassett.

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