SAWKINS, Thomas James
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Rank:
Company Sergeant Major (later Lieutenant)
Unit / Base:
2 Commando
'Commando Basic Training Centre'
Regiment/Corps:
Essex Regiment
Service:
Army
Number:
6014018 and 343031
Born:
Wednesday, March 31, 1920
Birthplace:
West Ham, Essex
Died :
Monday, May 23, 1994
Place died:
Cambridgeshire
Age:
74
Served in No.2 Commando then as an instructor at the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre), Achnacarry.
07.02.1943 Involved in the training of the American Rangers at the Commando Depot.
10.03.1945 commissioned Second Lieutenant, East Surrey Regiment.
07.02.1943 Involved in the training of the American Rangers at the Commando Depot.
10.03.1945 commissioned Second Lieutenant, East Surrey Regiment.
29.05.1947 Lieutenant, relinquished commission own request on enlistment in the ranks.
Member of the Commando Association residing Ramsey, Huntingdon.
Sources
Photo taken at the CBTC in our US Rangers Gallery.
London Gazette 37041, page 2086.
London Gazette 38032, page 3616.
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 99 (1994).
Registers of Births, West Ham District, registered 1920 (2nd Qr.).
Registers of Deaths, Huntingdon District, registered May 1994.
Ancestry page in his name.
Photo of Commando in Gallery:
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