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Displaying 1 - 10 of 10BEECH, James Frederick
No 1 Commando
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]
On the 31st January 1945 he is listed as being wounded whilst with No 5 Commando. [3]
ELSE, John
No 7 Commando
Sergeant John Else, No 7 Commando and Layforce, was accidentally killed whilst attached to No 1 Special Service Detachment.
Sources
CWGC.
British Army Casualty Lists 1939-45.
GREIG, Charles
No 3 Commando
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. However the 3rd Commando Brigade (Nos. 42RM and 44RM, and Nos.1 and 5 Army Commandos) did serve there.
Sources
CWGC.
JONES, Sydney
No 5 Commando
Lance Corporal Sydney Jones died of wounds inflicted during operations at Maungdaw.
Sources
CWGC.
LYCETT, Robert Arthur
No 5 Commando
The full circumstances of the death of Lance Corporal Robert Lycett are not as yet known by this archive.
O'REILLY, John
44RM Commando
Marine John O'Reilly died in India as a result of self inflicted gunshot wounds.
Sources
CWGC.
Registers of Reports of Deaths - Naval Ratings / National Archives file ADM104/135.
RUDMAN, James Thomas
No 1 Commando
Private James Rudman died in India.
WALTERS, Haydn
No 5 Commando
Private Haydn Walters died of illness in Kedgeon, near Poona, India,
WEBBER, Ernest George William
No 1 Commando
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
Bearers and Firing party provided by 6 tp for the funeral of Pte. Webber at BELGAUM.
Sources
CWGC
No 1 Commando War Diary May 1945 National Archives file WO/218/81.
YEOMANS, Geoffrey Richard
42RM Commando
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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