Middle East Commando / 1st Special Service Regiment
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'ME Cdo. Roll of Honour'
1st Special Service Regiment Officers Jul'42
Surname | Initials |
Rank
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Regt.
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ALLARDICE, William Dallas
ALLOTT, Richard Knowles Brian
BRODIE, Alexander Clare Cunningham
BROOK, Harold
BROWN, Leslie Jock

CWGC.
CLIFFORD, Bernard Edward
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/27, WO417/31, and WO417/68.
DAVIDSON, Alexander
DUFFY, Michael James
DUNBAR, W.
FASSAM, Joseph William

GOLDSMITH, Ernest Edward William Frederick
GRAHAM, John Malise
Lt. Col. John Malise Graham, MC, is listed as the senior officer on a roll of Officers serving with Middle East Commando (1st S.S. Regiment) 1st July 1942.[1]
HEARN, William Herbert
HORE, D.
KEALY, Michael Robert Bayley
LAPRAIK, John Neilson
LOWSON, Robert Charles

MACKAY, J.S.
Private Mackay was reported missing 14 September 1942 during operations in the Middle East (Tobruk), later found to be a prisoner of war at Camp 70, Monte Urano, Italy. In 1944 it was reported he was no longer a prisoner.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/55 and WO417/79.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/21.
MCNINCH, William Matthew

MITCHELL, W.
Private Mitchell was reported missing 14 September 1942 during operations in the Middle East (Tobruk), later found to be a prisoner of war.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/55 and WO417/79.
Prisoners of War / National Archives files WO392/1 and WO392/21.
NEWBY, George Eric
NIXON, Malvern
ROSENSTEIN, Natan
SELERI, Peter Alexander Shaw
- 28 January 1949 (Captain) (Hon. Major) awarded the Efficiency Medal (Territorial) [3].
SENIOR, Fred

Lance Sergeant Fred Senior died when his jeep patrol was attacked whilst en route to harass the enemy in Southern Tunisia. He was serving with 1st SAS ('B' Sqn.) at the time of his death having left the Commandos.
SHORTEN, Raymond Herbert
Dec 40, 52 ME Cdo
Jan 41, wounded
Mar 41, merged into D Bn,Layforce
Apr 42, merged into ME Cdo and 1st Special Service Regiment C Sqn
STAPLES, Montague
THIRKELL-WHITE, Derek John Plantaganet
TOWNSEND, Eric

WALSH, Thomas
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