NORTHERN, Samuel Bernard

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Known as: 
Ginger
Rank: 
Marine
Unit / Base: 
40RM Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Marines
Service: 
Royal Navy
Service Number: 
PO/X 101038
Born: 
Saturday, May 14, 1921
Birthplace: 
Warsop Vale, Notts.
Died : 
Wednesday, August 19, 1942
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age: 
21
Cemetery/Memorial: 
Hampshire, Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Operations: 
Dieppe - Operation Jubilee
Local Roll of Honour: 
Dieppe Raid - Commando Fallen
Marine Samuel Northern died during operations at Dieppe, France. Son of Thomas Bernard and Mary Elizabeth Northern, of Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire.
 
Sources
CWGC.
Registers of Deaths - Naval Ratings / National Archivves file ADM/104/135.
 
Notes
  • The CWGC shows his unit as HMS Locust.  This was the name of the ship that carried about 200 Royal Marine Commandos on the raid at Dieppe.
  • We have an Image of a Signals Intelligence Unit [view] formed for the raid at Dieppe which operated covertly on on this raid as a platoon of 40RM Commando. On that image PO/X 101038 Mne Samuel B. 'Ginger' Northern, is named as a member of the unit. The unit was 10 Platoon 'X' Company [more...] under the command of Lieutenant H.O. Huntington-Whiteley [more...], their role to acquire signals intelligence documents from German Naval HQ at Dieppe. 
  • His name is also recorded on the 40RM Commando memorial plaque at Shanklin Chine, Shanklin, Isle of Wight.
Primary Roll of Honour: 
40RM Commando Roll of Honour
Photo of Commando in Gallery: 
Yes
Archive pages : 
40RM Commando
30 Commando Assault Unit

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