Police Officers in the WW2 Commandos
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
CASSIDY, Maurice Francis
Sergeant Cassidy was wounded 14 July 1943 during operations at Agnone, Sicily, and the bridge at Malati (3 Commando Bridge). He was initially attested into the Royal Artillery before the war until discharged 11 March 1938.
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.
GROVE, Ronald

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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