WROE, Colin

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Rank: 
Private (later Sergeant)
Unit / Base: 
3 Commando
14 Commando
'Small Scale Raiding Force'
'Special Air Service'
Prior Police Service: 
Newark Borough Police, Nottinghamshire
Regiment/Corps: 
Green Howards
Service: 
Army
Service Number: 
14317913
Service Record: 
WO422 / Apv000965754
Born: 
Wednesday, August 3, 1921
Birthplace: 
Barnsley, Yorkshire
Died: 
1992
Place died or last resided: 
Worthing, Sussex.
Age: 
70
Colin Wroe was a Police Constable who volunteered for the Commandos in 1942 joining the 3rd Police Intake at the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre) at Achnacarry.
Timeline
30.04.941 appointed probationary Constable, Newark Borough Police.
15.10.1942 enlisted General Service Corps and posted Commando Depot, Achnacarry.
30.12.1942 administratively transferred to Green Howards.
20.01.1943 posted No.3 Commando.
04.02.1943 posted No.14 Commando.
05.03.1943 No.62 Commando (S.S.R.F.) disembarked theatre of operations (North Africa).
24.04.1943 admitted 100 General Hospital.
06.05.1943 discharged from hospital and re-joined 62 Commando.
13.05.1943 posted Special Air Service Regiment.
18.06.1943  2 Special Air Service Regt. Passed General Test as Clerk.
01.08.1943 admitted to 67 General Hospital.
21.08.1943 discharged from Hospital. Posted 5 Bn. I.R.T.D.
24.09.1943 posted No.3 Commando.
25.12.1943 embarked for UK.
04.01.1944 disembarked UK.
23.05.1944 struck off strength No.3 Commando. Posted 6th Bn. Green Howards.
06.06.1944 6th Bn., Green Howards, wounded in action Normandy, France.
08.06.1944 disembarked UK after evacuation.  Posted 'Y' List.
18.12.1944 posted permanent staff 5th Infantry Holding Bn., rank Local Paid Sergeant.
01.07.1945 Unit Instructor in Commerce and Shorthand.
19.10.1945 Class 'B' Release.
 
Sources
Army Service Record / Ancestry.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/77.
Newark Advertiser newspaper 30 Apr. 1941, p7.
Newark Herald newspaper 17 Oct. 1942, p5.
 
Additional content: 
Police Volunteers
Archive pages : 
No 3 Commando
No.14 Commando
62 Commando Small Scale Raiding Force
Special Air Service

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