ATTWOOD, Thomas Albert
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Rank:
Marine
Unit / Base:
47RM Commando
46RM Commando
Special Service (Commando) Group, Brigade, and Brigade Signals
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Service Number:
CH/X11815
Born:
Monday, January 1, 1923
Died :
October, 1999
Age:
76
Service timeline
08.12.1942 - Infantry Training Centre RM from Depot RM Lympstone.
13.02.1943 - To Holding Company 104th Brigade.
16.02.1943 - Taken on strength 10th Bn., RM Division.
01.081943 - 10th Bn., disbanded and restructured for those selected as 47RM Commando.
10.10.1943 - 47RM Commando 'X' Troop. Temporarily attached to a Deer Stalking Course.
23.10.1943 - Re-joined 47RM Commando from Deer Stalking Course.
26.03.1944 - 47RM Commando. Course at Commando Mountain Warfare Training Centre (CMWTC).
08.05.1944 - Re-joined 47RM Commando and posted Holding Operational Commando.
06.06.1944 - D Day, Normandy (period redacted in Service Record).
21.06.1944 - Holding Commando.
28.06.1944 - Posted HQ 4 Special Service (Commando) Brigade.
20.03.1945 - Joined 46RM Commando from Holding Operational Commando.
27.06.1945 - HQ 4 Commando Brigade. Embarked North West Europe for UK.
20.07.1945 - Holding Operational Commando.
22.10.1945 - 46RM Commando 'Y' Troop. 1st Good Conduct Badge.
04.01.1946 - To 41RM Commando from 46RM Commando.
20.02.1946 - Driver, 41RM Commando HQ Troop, posted to CHU.
Sources
Two pages (with redactions) from Service Record provided by his granddaughter Zoe.
41RM Cdo. War Diary 20 Feb.1946, Appx.G, Admin. Instruction 17, Dispersal of 41RM Cdo.
41RM Cdo. War Diary 20 Feb.1946, Appx.G, Admin. Instruction 17, Dispersal of 41RM Cdo.
[Image] Zoe Attwood, granddaughter.
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