WASSELL, Richard Peter
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Rank:
Captain
Unit / Base:
3 Commando
Special Service (Commando) Group, Brigade, and Brigade Signals
Regiment/Corps:
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
Service:
Army
Number:
242288
Born:
Thursday, September 14, 1922
Died :
Monday, August 12, 2002
Place died:
Edinburgh, Scotland
Age:
79
Richard Peter Wassell, aged 19, was commissioned Second Lieutenant 8 August 1942. Lieutenant Wassell was briefly reported missing in action on 11 June 1944 at Normandy, this report later being cancelled. He joined No.3 Commando in July 1944 serving with them until January 1945. Also served with 3 Commando Brigade in India and Hong Kong from May 1945 to July 1946. Post war member of the Commando Association from Edinburgh.
Sources
London Gazette 35677, page 3703.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/6.
Transcript of July Replacements doc from the No 3 Cdo War Diary 1944 / National Archives ref. WO218 / 65.
Commando Service Certificate provided by his daughter Sue Barnes.
The 1939 Register covering Long Crendon, Bucks.
Commando Association newsletter 120 (2005) (only shows No.1 Cdo. which was part of 3 Cdo Bde).
Notice of his death in The Scotsman newspaper 15 August 2002.
[Image] Sue Barnes, daughter.
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