ROBERTS, Edwin Albert
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Rank:
Sergeant (later Captain)
Unit / Base:
Special Service (Commando) Group, Brigade, and Brigade Signals
Prior Police Service:
Metropolitan Police
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Fusiliers
Somerset Light Infantry
Service:
Army
Number:
6482225 and 320954
Born:
Sunday, March 24, 1918
Died:
2002
Place died:
Glamorganshire, Wales
In 1939 Edwin Albert Roberts from Nunney, Somerset, joined the Metropolitan Police and was posted to Islington Police Station, 277 Upper Street, London N1 [1][2].
He volunteered for the Commandos in 1942 and was selected for the 1st Police Intake to the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre), Achnacarry [2].
26 May 1944 commissioned Second Lieutenant, Somerset Light Infantry [3].
29 April 1948 (Lieutenant) relinquishes his commission and is granted the honorary rank of Captain [4].
Sources
[1] The 1939 Register covering Islington.
[2] Newspaper report below in the Somerset Standard 16 June 1944.
[3] London Gazette 36647, page 3703.
[4] London Gazette 38327, page 3631.
Registers of Deaths, registered in Bridgend 3rd qr. of 2002.
Registers of Deaths, registered in Bridgend 3rd qr. of 2002.
[Image] Somerset Standard 16 June 1944.
Notes
Commando Association Lost Legion 10 (members they had lost contact with) has a Fus. E.A. Roberts who served in No.12 Commando and No.1 Commando. However they list him being from Derby. Source at [2] simply states Special Service Brigade (Commando).
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