SMALLMAN, William Alan Wynne

Rank: 
Lieutenant (later Brigadier)
Unit / Base: 
3 Commando
Special Service (Commando) Group, Brigade, and Brigade Signals
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Army Service Corps
Service: 
Army
Number: 
93086
Born: 
Thursday, June 24, 1915
Birthplace: 
York
Died : 
Thursday, October 21, 1999
Served as staff officer with Royal Army Service Corps in France and Belgium, 1940; served with No 3 Commando in GB, 6/1940-1/1942 including Operation Claymore, the raid on the Lofoten Islands, Norway, 4/3/1941 and Operation Archery, the raid on Vaagso Island, Norway, 27/12/1941; served as staff officer with Headquarters, Combined Operations, Headquarters, 1st Special Service Bde and Headquarters, 8th Infantry Bde, 3rd Infantry Div in GB, 1942-1944 served as staff officer with 11th Army Group in India and Ceylon, 1944-1945; served as staff officer with XXXIV Indian Corps and 33rd Indian Infantry Bde in Ceylon and Malaya, 1945-1946, served as staff officer with British Army of the Rhine in Germany, 1949-1953; served as staff officer with Headquarters, Middle East Land Forces on Cyprus, 1955-1957.
  • 1 January 1953 (Major) appointed M.B.E. (Military Division).
  • 1984 became the first Mayor of Farnham Town Council.
Sources
IWM oral intervew ref. IWM online Catalogue no. 16252 production date 1995-10-24.
London Gazette 39732, page 9.
Commando Association newsletters 23, 76, and 79.
Farnham Town Council website.
 

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