Saint Nazaire Raid - Commando Fallen
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Displaying 1 - 67 of 67AIRD, Michael Derrick

Michael was a grocer in 1939 before enlisting and resided 36 Gilroy Road, Fairfield, Liverpool. Son of George and May Aird.
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CWGC.
BEVERIDGE, Robert
BIRNEY, David Leslie

BLOUNT, Arthur Harvey
Arthur was part of a demolition team who embarked for the raid on HMS Campbeltown, and was the son of Charles George Blount, and of Annie Blount, of Morden, Surrey.
BORGMAN, Robert Bernard John
BOYCE, John Douglas
BRYAN, Edward Joseph

BURGESS, Leslie
BURNS, Ronald Edward David

BURTINSHAW, Robert James Glover
CHETWYND, Samuel Ernest
COUGHLAN, John

John embarked for the raid on motor launch ML 267 which was hit by enemy fire and sank with the loss of eight of the 11 Commandos, and all bar five of the RN crew.
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COULSON, Garnett
CUNNINGHAM, Henry Peter

DEANS, James
DIAMOND, Thomas

DONALDSON, John

DUNCAN, Ronald
DURRANT, Sgt. Thomas Frank, VC

ELDRIDGE, Leonard Frederick

FERGUSON, William
FISHER, Norman Lucas

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FOWLER, Henry Francis
GARRATT, Arthur Ernest
GIBSON, William

GOSS, Leonard George William

GROSE, William Ernest
CWGC.
GWYNNE, John Edward Herbert

HARKNESS, Peter
HARRISON, Maurice

Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/41 and WO417/95.
HAY, William
HEATHER, William Bernard
HEMPSTEAD, Stanley
HODGSON, Eric Stewart

HUDSON, George Herbert
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/41 (1942) and WO417/59 (1943).
St Nazaire Society website.
IDE, George Edward

CWGC.
JAMESON, Robert Evan
CWGC.
JENKINS, Morgan

Son of Morgan and Mary Jenkins; husband of Edna (nee Kennedy), of Tottenham, London.
JOHNSON, Bertie Lawrence
He embarked for the raid HMS Campbeltown and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bertie Lawrence Johnson, of Stockport, Cheshire.
CWGC.
JONES, Harri Havard
KELLY, Francis
LEWIS, John Frederick
LLEWELLYN, Fred

Son of Tom and Elizabeth Llewellyn, of Worcester.
Service Record
17 January 1940 enlisted King's Shopshire Light Infantry.
LUCY, Albert James

MATHER, Harry
MAYLOTT, Jesse

Son of Jesse Maylott, and of Alice Maylott, of Orford, Warrington, Lancashire.
MCCORMACK, Thomas

MOSS, Alan

NEAL, Alfred William
PATERSON, Kenneth Albert
PENNINGTON, Harold Hammond

Captain Harold Pennington was reported missing 28 March 1942 after Operation Chariot at St Nazaire, later confirmed killed in action. He had embarked for the raid on motor launch ML 268.
B.A. (Oxon.), Kitchener Scholar, and Rugby Football Blue (1937).
Son of Walter and Ada Pennington, of Ashton in Makerfield, Lancashire; husband of Edna Elizabeth Pennington.
PEYTON, Thomas Grenville Pitt

PRITCHARD, William Henry
ROACH, Thomas Ypres

Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/41 and WO417/45.
ROBINSON, Sydney
SHENTON, Joseph
SMALLEY, Christopher John

SPAUL, William Albert

STOKES, George Stanley
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TAYLOR, Gerald
TOMBLIN, Edward Charles
TOMSETT, Reginald Maurice

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CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/41 and WO417/54.
VANDERWERVE, John Edward


WALTON, George William
WALTON, Philip

Son of C.P. and Evelyn Walton, of Bedford. B.A. (Cantab.): Christ's College.
CWGC.
WOODCOCK, Mark
Lieutenant Mark Woodcock was reported missing 28 March 1942 after Operation Chariot at St Nazaire, later presumed killed in action at sea. Officer in charge of a demolition team who had embarked on motor launch ML 262. He has no known grave.
WOODMAN, Robert Salonicka

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