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Displaying 1 - 10 of 10BEECH, James Frederick
Private
14404860
No 1 Commando
3 Special Service (Commando) Brigade
Royal Sussex Regiment
Died on war service
Private James Beech, HQ 3 Special Service (Commando) Bde., reported initially by the War Office to have died a prisoner of war in Japanese hands, died in Poona Hospital, India, a victim of infantile paralysis. [1+2].
- 31 January 1945 wounded attached to No 5 Commando. [3]
ELSE, John
Sergeant
5624579
No 7 Commando
Devonshire Regiment
Died on war service
Sergeant John Else was accidentally killed in India.
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/59.
Notes
GREIG, Charles
Private
14988470
No 3 Commando
Gordon Highlanders
Died on war service
Private Charles Greig was accidentally killed in India. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission list his secondary unit as No. 3 Commando. This Commando unit never served in that theatre of war.
JONES, Sydney
Lance Corporal
5253009
No 5 Commando
Worcestershire Regiment
Lance Corporal Sydney Jones died of wounds inflicted during operations at Maungdaw.
Sources
CWGC.
LYCETT, Robert Arthur

Lance Corporal
5047277
No 5 Commando
North Staffordshire Regiment
Died on war service
Lance Corporal Robert Lycett from Amington, Staffordshire, died in hospital in India.
Son of Robert Edward and Emma Lycett, of Ammington, Staffordshire; husband of Joyce Miriam Lycett, of Ammington; father to a 3 year old boy. Formerly employed at Tamworth Colliery.
Son of Robert Edward and Emma Lycett, of Ammington, Staffordshire; husband of Joyce Miriam Lycett, of Ammington; father to a 3 year old boy. Formerly employed at Tamworth Colliery.
O'REILLY, John
Marine
PLY/X 108268
44RM Commando
Royal Marines
Died on war service
Marine John O'Reilly died in India as a result of self inflicted gunshot wounds. Son of Patrick and Annie Kate O'Reilly, of Kilglass, Co. Sligo, Irish Republic.
Sources
CWGC.
Registers of Reports of Deaths - Naval Ratings / National Archives file ADM104/135.
RUDMAN, James Thomas
Private
5734313
No 1 Commando
Dorsetshire Regiment
Died on active service
Private James Rudman died in India.
WALTERS, Haydn
Private
6297207
No 5 Commando
The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) 5th Bn.
Died on war service
Private Haydn Walters died of illness in Kedgeon, near Poona, India,
WEBBER, Ernest George William
Private
1154962
No 1 Commando
Wiltshire Regiment
Royal Artillery
Died on active service
Private Ernest Webber died in India as a result of an accident whilst swimming.
Extract from the No 1 Commando War Diary
Londa Astoli 12 May 1945.
Pte Webber (6 tp) who injured himself whilst swimming died in C.M.H. Belgaum.
13 May 1945, 1500hrs
13 May 1945, 1500hrs
YEOMANS, Geoffrey Richard
Lieutenant
42RM Commando
Royal Marines
Died on war service
Lieutenant Geoffrey Yeomans died from multiple injuries received in a road accident.
Sources
CWGC.
British India Office Ecclesiastical Returns - Deaths & Burials / The British Library Archive Reference N-3-174.
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