OUGHTRED, Neil
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Rank:
Captain
Unit / Base:
2 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Lincolnshire Regiment
Service:
Army
Number:
70524
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Lieutenant Neil Oughtred joined No.2 Commando on 7 September 1941. On 27/28 March 1942 he was one of the commando contingent embarked on Motor Launch ML 446 for Operation Chariot, the raid at St Nazaire 28 March 1942. Wounded during the raid and evacuated back to the UK. He rejoined No.2 Commando, rank Captain.
Mentioned in Despatches in December 1940 for good service at Dunkirk. Post war practiced as a Solicitor. Member of the Commando Association residing Chorleywood.
Mentioned in Despatches in December 1940 for good service at Dunkirk. Post war practiced as a Solicitor. Member of the Commando Association residing Chorleywood.
Sources
No.2 Cdo. War Diary Field Return of Officers Dec.'43.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/2.
MiD - London Gazette 35020, page 7186.
St Nazaire Society website.
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 119 issued Sept. 2004.
Newspaper reports in the Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian 5 Sept 1942 and 10 March 1951.
[Image] Cropped from a photo in the No.2 Cdo. Gallery titled 'No.2 Commando Officers dated January 1943'.
Photo of Commando in Gallery:
Yes
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