KEAY, J.H.

Known as: 
Big Harry
Rank: 
Gunner (later RQMS)
Unit / Base: 
'30 Commando Assault Unit'
'Special Air Service'
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Artillery
Service: 
Army
Number: 
14256713
Harry Keay 30 Assault Unit
Gunner in 34 Troop Special Engineering Unit 30 Commando until disbanded July 1945. Qualified parachutist.
Trooper in the 1st SAS Regiment from 14 September 1945 to 16 November 1945.
Post war member of the Commando Association from Co. Durham.
 
Sources
Cerificates of service in gallery. 
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 71 (1980).
Images in Gallery courtesy of his son Brian Keay.
 

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