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3rd Police Intake - 15 October 1942 to 18 January 1943, total 84.
ALEXANDER, Charles Henry
ALMONDS, John Edward
ANDERSON, Barrie Sherwill Norman
ANDREWS, Alfred Archley
- 12.10.1936 joined the Metropolitan Police, warrant number 125297.
ANSELL, Arthur James
ASHTON, Colin William
ASHWORTH, James Kenyon
AUSTIN, Selwyn Ronald
BAGOT, Henry Hunter
BAINES, William
BAKER, Albert
BAKER, Herbert Valentine
BAKER, Kenneth Claude
BALE, John Henry
BALL, Percy William
BALLANTYNE, George
BARDENS, John Henry
John Henry Bardens was a Police Officer from Plymouth who volunteered for the Commandos enlisting 6 June 1942 joining the 2nd Police Intake to the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre), Achnacarry.
BARLOW, Jack
BARNES, Norman Alfred George
BARNES, William Walter
BARRASS, Nicholas William
BARTLETT, Brian, V.
BARTON, Leslie James
BEARNE, Robert Stanley
BEATTIE, James Simpson
BEAVER, Stanley
BENNION, Thomas James
BENTLEY, Charles
BENTLEY, Donald
BERRY, James Arthur
BETTY, Arthur John
BIDDISCOMBE, Edward
BINNIE, John
BISHOP, Arthur
BISHOP, Frederick Walter
BISSELL, Stanley
BLAKEMAN, Albert John
BOOTH, William Martel
In 1939 William Booth was an Essex Constabulary Police Constable based at South Street Police Station, Romford. He volunteered for the Commandos in 1942 as part of the Police Intakes to the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre), Achnacarry.
BOYES, Robert Paul
BRADLEY, John Percy
BRIDLE, Desmond George
BROUGH, William Gordon
BROWN, Kenneth Sidney
BRUNT, Morris Raymond
BRYANT, Joseph Harry
BUCKLAND, Reginald Arthur
Reginald Arthur Buckland joined the Metropolitan Police on 2 September 1939 as a Special Constable and subsequently became a War Reserve Constable.
BUNT, Reginald Melford
BURKE, Edmund
BURNS, Norman
CALLAGHAN, Dennis
Private Dennis Callaghan, 6 Troop, was wounded on 13 September 1943 during operations at Salerno, Italy. Dennis was a Police Officer who had volunteered for the Commandos in 1942 and was part of a Police Intake to the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre), Achnacarry.
CAMPBELL, A.
CAMPBELL, Thomas
CANT, Evelyn Arthur George
CAPP, William Thomas
CAPPLEMAN, John
CAPSTICK, Norman
CARRICK, George
CARTER, Donald, A.
1939 - Metropolitan Police Constable residing at the Police Section House, King David Lane, London E1. Volunteered for the Commandos as part of the 1st Police Intake of 1942.
CARTWRIGHT, William
CHAPMAN, William Jopp
CHEETHAM, Gerald
CHESTERS, William
CHITTY, Wyndham Roland, G.P.
CLARKE, Hilary Laurence
CLARKE, Patrick Joseph
CLARKSON, George Francis
CLEMENTS, Albert Edward
Private Albert Clements served in 1 Troop and was injured in 1943 during training at Gibraltar after which he was evacuated to the UK for treatment.
COBLEY, Victor Charles
COKER, James Thomas
COLEMAN, Lloyd William
CONWAY, John Alphonsus
COOK, Kenneth
COOKSON, Charles
COOPER, Dudley Edward
COOPER, George
COULSON, John Richard
COULTHARD, Arnold, C.
COX, Cecil Ernest Robert
CRABTREE, Ben
CRAIG, John
CRAIG, Robert
CRAIG, Robinson Ostle
Private Robinson Craig was killed in action at Dragone Hill, near Vietri, Salerno. He was buried there the following day, his grave being marked with a cross. However it was never again found and Private Craig is one of the many who now have no known grave.
CROSS, Swinford Joseph
CROWE, Edward Louis
CUNNINGHAM, Stephen
DAVID, Douglas, W.
- 9 February 1939 joined the Metropolitan Police, warrant number 125614. Later resided at Blackheath Police Section House, Greenwich, SE10.
DAVID, Gordon Percy
DAVIDSON, Douglas Oscar
DAVIES, Arthur Henry William
DAVIES, Leonard
Private Len Davies served in 5 Troop and later the H.Q. Section. He was a serving Police Officer in Barrowford who volunteered for the Commandos as part of the Police Intakes in 1942.
DAVIES, W.L.
Active service included 26/27 August 1943 Bova Marina, Italy. Wounded 8 July 1944 NWE.
DAVIES, Wyndham Francis
DAVISON, John Cyril
DAW, Herbert Frank
DELL, Charles Richard
DENHAM, Joah Selwyn
DENNIS, Thomas Gerald
DICKINSON, John Leonard
DIGHTON, Derrick John
DOCKERILL, Graham Dennis
DOLBY, William Arthur Watkins
DRAPER, Bertie William
DRIVER, John
DRURY, Thomas
Private Thomas Drury served in the HQ Troop Motor Transport Section. He was a serving Police Officer who volunteered for the Commandos as part of the Police Intakes. In 1939 he was a Police Constable residing in Dewsbury.
DUNFORD, Edwin
DUNKLEY, Eric Cambrai
EADS, Peter
EARL, Dennis Victor
EAST, Gerald Thomas
EGLETON, Sydney Oswald
ELMS, Frank
ENNIS, James Francis
EVANS, Arthur Walter
EVANS, Goronwy Wyn
EVANS, Gwilym
Private Gwilym Evans was reported missing 14 July 1943, later presumed killed in action, during operations at Agnone, Sicily, and the bridge at Malati (later called 3 Commando Bridge).
EVANS, Leslie Daniel
EVERETT, William John
FANTHAM, Maurice
FEATHERSTONE, Charles Roland
FERRIE, James Eglinton
FLETCHER, Edmund Frederick
FLETCHER, John Harold
FORSYTH, William John
FRASER, John George
18.07.1932 attested into the Scots Guards aged 18, civil occupation Labourer. Military service included deployment to Egypt.
22.12.1936 transferred to Army Reserve to join the Police.
FROST, Sidney Edward
FRY, William Charles
GALE, William S.
Private William Gale was wounded on 13 July 1943 during operations at Agnone Sicily and the bridge at Malati (3 Commando Bridge).
GARRETT, Albert Charles
GARRETT, William John Stanley
GELSTHORPE, Gladwin
GILL, L.M. (Len)
GILLINGS, Leonard, R.
GODDARD, Alfred
GRANT, Archibald Campbell
GRANT, James
GRAY, Reginald Halliday
GREALEY, Thomas Louis
GREER, J.C.
- 15 November 1944 (Guardsman) (Scots Guards) wounded in Italy [2].
GRIEVE, John
GRIGG, Eric Alfred
GROSE, Reginald George
- 1939 Police Constable residing at 162 Stanhope Street, Camden.
- 27 June 1941 awarded the George Medal.
HACK, Ronald Roger Louis
HADDOW, David Foster
HALLIDAY, Bernard Neil
- 02.01.1939 joined the Metropolitan Police.
HANTON, James Reith
HARDY, Eric Arthur
HARRISON, Ivan
HARRY, John Grismond
HENDERSON, Walter, H.
HENDRY, William
HERN, Gordon
HERSTELL, Ernest Maxwell
HEWITT, Albert John Henry
HEWITT, Denis Story
HILL, Arthur Charles
HILL, Eric Albert
HILL, Harry Leslie
HILL, Reginald
HILLIARD, James Johnstone (record query)
03.04.1939 Police Constable serving at Gosport Police Station.
15.01.1941 serving at Fareham Police Station.
HODGES, William Albert
HOLLAND, James
HOLLINGWORTH, Leslie
HOLMES, Kenneth Samuel Buller
HOLT, A.
HOOPER, Samuel Lyndon
HORSFIELD, Harry
HOUGH, Richard
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HOUGHTON, Walter Roy Fairley
HOWARD, Edward John
HOWELLS, W.J.C.
HUMBLE, William McLean
HURLEY, Philip
IMRIE, Bruce Berriff
INNES, James Fraser
Privates James Innes was wounded on 5 October 1943 during operations at Termoli, Italy. He was a Police Officer in Larbert who volunteered for the Commandos in 1942 joining a Police Intake to the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre) at Achnacarry.
IRVING, Robert Anderson
IVES, Arthur Christopher
JACKSON, Colin
- 20 September 1938 joined the Police Service.
- 1939 single and a Police Constable residing at 191 Shelley Road, Preston.
JACKSON, Ernest Stanley
JACKSON, H.
Lance Sergeant H. Jackson was wounded on 24 March 1945 (remaining on duty) during operations to cross the River Rhine at Wesel and again on 11 April 1945 at the River Aller.
JARVIS, Joseph Augustus
Joseph Jarvis was a Metropolitan Police Officer who volunteered for the Commandos joining HM Armed Forces on 19 May 1943. In 1939 he was a Constable based or residing at 62 Wapping High Street, Stepney. Post war member of the Commando Association.
JENKYNS, Lionel Victor
JOHN, William, H.
JOHNSON, Henry Horace
JOHNSON, Herbert
JONES, Anthony Windsor
JONES, George Edward
JONES, Kenneth Edwin
JONES, Thomas Ellis
JOSS, James
KEERY, William James
KELLY, Brian Bernard
KENDRAY, Harold
KENT, Frederick, P.
KIRBY, William John
LAMBERT, Peter Laurence
LAMKIN, Sydney James
Fusilier Sydney Lamkin, a Metropolitan Police War Reservist, volunteered for the Commandos and was part of the 1st Police Intake to the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre) at Achnacarry. He was attached to No.2Commando and served in the Heavy Weapons Troop.
LANGLEY, Percy
LATHAM, Leslie James
LEEMING, William Cedric
Troop Sergeant Major William Leeming died during operations at Rots and Le Hamel, France. Son of William Herbert and Alice Leeming, of Dublin, Irish Republic.
LEES, Archibald
LESSONS, George Sutherland
LEWINGTON, Leslie John
LITTLER, Ronald
LLOYD, Edmund John
LOASBY, Ronald William
LOCKWOOD, Frank
LOGAN, Frederick James
- 2 September 1939 Frederick Logan became a Metropolitan Police War Reserve Constable and in 1942 he volunteered for the Commandos.
LOGAN, Thomas Alex
MACGOWAN, Sydney James Watt
MACKENZIE, Roderick Gimson
MADRA, Robert Peter
MAHAN, Robert McKenna
Fusilier Robert McKenna Mahan, 'C' Troop, was wounded on 6 June 1944, remaining on duty, during operations at Normandy, France. Post war member of the Commando Association residing Guisborough, Cleveland, Teeside.
MANLEY, Frederick, Reuben, W.
- 6 June 1944 wounded (remaining on duty) on 6 June 1944 at Normandy, France [1].
MANNING, Frederick
Corporal Frederick Manning, a Police Officer from Kent, was one of the Police Intakes to the Commandos commencing his training 15 October 1942. He served with No.5 Commando in the Far East and post war resumed his service with the Police.
MARRON, Austin
MARTIN, Donald Hugh
MASSEY, Albert William
MATHER, Ernest Griffith
MCCUBBIN, Duncan Stuart
MCDAID, Francis
MCDONALD, Robert Stewart
MCDOUGALL, William Lawrence
McELVEEN, Thomas Edward
MCIVER, Geoffrey Donald
MCKAY, Alec
MCPHERSON, MacIntyre Wilson
MEDDINGS, Sidney William
MEEK, Angus
MELLARS, Vivian Roy
MILBURN, John
MILBURN, Ridley
MITCHELL, William
MITCHELL, William Henry
MOFFAT, Robert Tweedie
MOLD, Herbert John
MONEY, Douglas Anthony William
MORGAN, Albert Stuart
MORRIS, Charles Henry
MORRIS, Leonard Christopher Hugh
MULLARD, Sidney John
MUNNS, Leonard Cyril
MYNHEER, Frederick Robert Charles
NAYLOR, Howard
NEALE, Arthur
NEWBY, Kenneth
NICHOLAS, John David
June 1940 attested into the Corps of Military Police.
April 1941 transferred to the Infantry Training Centre (Welch Regiment).
15 April 1941 posted to the Auxiliary Units.
NICHOLSON, James
NICOLSON, Angus
O'SHEA, James Andrew
OLIVER, Matthew Dudgeon
OLIVER, Matthew Dudgeon
OLIVER, Roland
OSTICK, Ernest
OVENDEN, Roderick Joseph
PAGE, Thomas Harold
PALFREY, Edward Francis
PALMER, Frederick
PANTALL, Richard William White
PARISH, Kenneth Peter
PARKER, Robert John
Guardsman Robert Parker was reported missing 26 February 1943 in Tunisia, North Africa (Battle for Steamroller Farm), later found to be wounded and a prisoner of war.
PASK, Douglas
PAUL, Haydn Bertram
PEARCE, Kenneth
PEARSE, George
PETKEN, William Henry
PHILLIPS, Hedley Joyce
PHILLIPS, Norman Arthur Firth
- 1939 employed as a Clerk at the Education Offices, Bath.
POCOCK, Thomas Charles
PORTWAIN, Edward
POWER, John Francis Finbar
PRATT, Henry
PRICE, David Elvet
PULESTON, Geoffrey Frank
RAMAGE, James, B.
RAMSDEN, Harry
RATTLE, Jack Ernest
REEVE, Stanley Richardson
RENSHAW, Victor Ernest
RIDGE, Thomas William
RILEY, Charles George Gibson
ROBERTS, Charles Edward James
ROBERTS, Donald Leslie
ROBERTS, Edwin Albert
ROBERTSON, George
ROLFE, Charles Kenneth
ROSTANCE, James, H.F.W.
RUSHTON, Edward Gordon
Edward was a Police Officer in Lancashire who had volunteered for the Commandos as part of the Police Intakes. In 1939 he was a Police Constable residing at 12 Crabtree Street, Colne.
SALISBURY, Frank
SAVORY, Dennis
SEARLE, Clifford Frederick
SIGSWORTH, Stanley
SMART, Albert Kenneth
SMITH, George Alfred
SMITH, Miller
Company Sergeant Major Miller Smith, a former Police Officer, was one of seven men from No.2 Commando captured after Operation Musketoon and later executed at Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp under Hitler's Commando Execution Order.
SNADDON, John
John Snaddon was a Fife Constabulary police officer who volunteered for the Commandos in 1942 joining a Police Intake to the Commando Depot (Commando Badic Training Centre) at Achnarry. Lance Corporal Snaddon, No.5 Commando 4 troop, was wounded in 1944 during operations in Burma.
SPINKS, Edward George
STACK, William John
In 1939 William Stack was a Police Constable based at Central Police Station, Cheltenham. He volunteered for the Commandos in 1942 as part of the Police Intakes to the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre), Achnacarry. He was posted to 5 Troop after joining his commando unit.
STARLING, Alfred Michael Prestwood
- 1939 Police Constable residing at 29 Carlyle Road, Birmingham.
STORER, Sidney
STROWGER, John Dunkirk
John Strowger was a Metropolitan Police Officer who volunteered for the Commandos. In 1939 he was a Police Constable serving at Croydon Police Station, London. Post war member of the Commando Association.
TANNER, John Andrew
Corporal John Tanner was killed in action on 15 April 1945 during operations at Lake Comacchio, Italy. The previous year on 20 March 1944 he was wounded (recovered) during operations in Italy.
TAYLOR, Thomas Alfred
TAYLOR, William Ronald
TENNICK, Maurice William
TEVENDALE, Lewis Legertwood Legg
TEWKESBURY, Edward Frank
THOMSON, John, D.
John Thomson was a serving Police Officer who had volunteered for the Commandos as part of the Police Intakes. In 1939 he was Police Constable No.84 residing at the Police Billets, Albion Assembly Rooms, Norfolk Street, Tynemouth.
THORNTHWAITE, Norman
TOOGOOD, David Cyril
TORDOFF, Kenneth
TOUGH, Alexander
TOVEY, Norman Charles
TOWSE, Alfred Burley
TUDOR, William John
TUFFIN, Leslie Ernest Longhurst
TUNGATT, Leonard Frederick
TURNER, Richard Kirkley
TURNER, William George Jack
TYREMAN, George Vincent
WAKEFIELD, Raymond
WAKELY, Terence Raymond John
WALL, Reginald George
- 1939 Metropolitan Police Constable at Croydon Police Station.
WARD, Arthur William
WATSON, J.R.
WATTS, Robert Edward
WEBB, George Henry
WEBB, Henry, T.
- 1939 Metropoltan Police Constable at the Police Station, 370 Romford Rd., East Ham.
WEBSTER, Roland Hutchinson
WEEKES, Sydney George Douglas
WELCH, Frederick Edward
WELSH, J.L
WHITE, Horace George Lewis
WILLIAMS, Albert
WILLIAMS, Francis Arthur
WILLIAMS, Sidney Walter
WILSON, Graham Charles
WOOD, Hector
WOOLLARD, George
WORMLEY, Wilfrid John
WRIGHT, Harold
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