EVERETT, Thomas Henry

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Known as:

Tommy

Rank:

Sergeant (later Staff Sergeant)

Unit / Base:

2 Commando

Regiment/Corps:

Royal Army Medical Corps

Service:

Army

Service Number:

7264371

Service Record:

WO422 / Apv000039626

Honours & Awards:

Mentioned in Despatches

Born:

Monday, July 21, 1919

Birthplace:

Battersea, Wandsworth

Died :

Friday, January 16, 2009

Place died or last resided:

Bedford.

Age:

Thomas Henry Everett served in the Medical Section of No.2 Commando from March 1941 until the end of the war. Wartime active service included Operation Chariot at St. Nazaire, France, Sicily, Italy, Albania, and the Dalmatian Islands of the former Yugoslavia. Wounded Sicily. Mentioned in Despatches.

Service timeline

12.03.1938 enlisted and posted 10 Field Ambulance, RAMC.
08.01.1941 posted No.1 Special Service Battalion 'B' Company.

05.03.1941 posted No.2 Commando.

28.03.1942 Operation Chariot, the raid at St Nazaire. Evacuated back to the UK.
13.04.1943 embarked for service overseas; disembarked Gibraltar 22.04.1943.

16.08.1943 wounded Sicily remained on duty.
27.11.1943 appointed Acting Corporal; granted war substantive rank 25.02.1944.

05.05.1944 appointed Acting Sergeant; granted war substantive rank 30.07.1944.
19.06.1945 embarked for UK.
15.08.1945 taken on strength 2 Medical Commando.

05.01.1946 posted Parachute Regiment.
24.03.1946 embarked with 1st Battalion Paras for Middle East.
16.09.1946 posted 195 (P) Field Ambulance and later served at 3 B.D.M.S.
29.11.1946 embarked for UK.
23.08.1947 - 06.04.1949 Staff Sergeant, Middle East Land Forces. British Military Hospital, Fayid. 06.04.1949 embarked for UK.

12.03.1950 released to Reserve List.

Sources

Service Record / Ancestry.

St Nazaire Society website.

Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/66.

Commando Association Lost Legion lists 4 and 8.

London Gazette 37575

[Image] CVA Gallery.

Photo of Commando in Gallery:

Yes

Additional content:

'St. Nazaire - Operation Chariot'