CASLIN, Patrick Gerard
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Known as:
Pat
Rank:
Fusilier
Unit / Base:
2 Commando
Prior Police Service:
Metropolitan Police
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Fusiliers
Service:
Army
Service Number:
6482302
Born:
Saturday, March 15, 1919
Died :
Sunday, September 24, 1989
Place died:
Pontypool, Monmouthshire
In 1939 Patrick Gerard Caslin, from Sixmilebridge, Co. Clare, Eire, was a Metropolitan Police Constable, warrant number 127627, residing in the Section House adjacent to Stoke Newington Police Station. He volunteered for the Commandos in 1942 and was likely part of the Metropolitan Police contingent that attended the 1st Police Intake Course at the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre), Achnacarry. Attached to No.2 Commando and served in the Meditteranean theatre of war. Class 'B' Release 12 October 1945. Post war resided Hayes, Middlesex. Member of the Commando Association.
Sources
Commando Association Lost Legion List 3 (1973) and Newsletter 98 (1994).
Handwritten nom. roll of No.2 Commandos provided by Mrs Roderick MBE.
British Army Medal Card / National Archives file WO 460/94.
The 1939 Register covering Stoke Newington.
Tony Moore, FRHistS. and Police Historian.
Article on wedding Irish Independent newspaper 3 August 1948, page 6.
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