SNADDON, John

Known as: 
Jack
Rank: 
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base: 
5 Commando
Prior Police Service: 
Fife Constabulary
Regiment/Corps: 
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Service: 
Army
Number: 
14317314

John Snaddon was a Fife Constabulary police officer who volunteered for the Commandos in 1942 joining a Police Intake to the Commando Depot (Commando Badic Training Centre) at Achnarry.  Lance Corporal Snaddon, No.5 Commando 4 troop, was wounded in 1944 during operations in Burma.

Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/74.
Document in 5 Cdo. Gallery titled 'No 5 Cdo Memorial Service held on the 27th March 1944.'
Tony Moore, FRHistS and Police Historian.
 

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