3 troop, also referred to as the miscellaneous troop and X troop, consisted solely of German speaking refugees many being of Jewish Faith. They included different nationalities, primarily German and Austrians, but also Hungarians and Czech's.

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Document  listing the composition in men and arms of a fighting patrol for No 1 Commando for November 1944 in Burma operations.

Document was sent to John Mewett  by Sgt. John Huntington 3 Troop N0 1 Commando

War Diary entry for the Troop organisation of No 1 Commando Nov 1944.

Source: National Adchives Document Reference WO218/81

Sheet indicating Troop locations 1st-30th June 1942 12 Commando

National Archives Document Ref WO218/41

Map of the Kangaw Blockade of 3 Commando Brigade January/Febuary 1945 with coded areas marked.

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• Service number query. 2737969 Gdsm. Frazer is shown as 2737968 Gdsm. Fraser on another document we have.

Published in The Scotsman 15 January 1943.

This article on WW2 Commando training written by Captain Donald Gilchrist, No.4 Commando and CBTC Instructor, was published in the Oban Times and Argyllshire Advertiser 8 November 1990.

Marine Walter Bateman died on 31 January 1945 during operations in Burma.

Private James Wesley R. Boyce No.1 Commando was killed in action in Burma during the Battle of Hill 170. Various newspaper cuttings of the time.

Norman Burns joined Aberdeenshire Constabulary in 1939. In 1942 he volunteered for the Commandos and was part of the 2nd Police Intake. This newspaper obituary was published in the Aberdeen Press and Journal 04 December 1984 provided by Geoff Marston and George Barnsley.

Published in the Nantwich Chronicle 1st May 1991.

A report in the Staffordshire Evening Sentinel on the death of Private Robinson Craig during operations on 11 September 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. Son of Jackson Turner Craig and Sarah Craig, of Seaton, Cumberland. 

Served as a Lance Corporal in No.11 Commando. Commissioned into the Royal Scots Greys in 1943. Lieutenant Gordon Edmiston was awarded the Military Cross in 1945 for gallant and distinguished service in North West Europe. Post war in 1976 he was Principal Collector, Board of Inland Revenue when appointed O.B.E. (Civil Division).

Lancashire Evening Post 29 September 1941. Newspaper report about the death of Private Denis Gallagher, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders attached to No.11 Commando, who was killed in action at Litani River.

Published in the Birmingham Evening Despatch 19 May 1945.

Rifleman Harold William Hones served in No.12 and No.6 Commandos. Article published in the Mid Sussex Times 19 May 1994.

Corporal Johnston 41 Independent Commando RM was wounded during the Korean War. Report from the Belfast Telegraph 7 December 1950.

Published in the Western Mail 25 August 1950. Marine Jones 41 Independent Commando RM from Penarth was later killed in action. Article also includes some detail about Marine  Maldwyn Humphreys from the Rhonnda Valley.

Lance Corporal Richard McCarthy, R.A.M.C. attached to 46 RM Commando, was awarded the Military Medal for gallant and distinguished service during operations at Rots and Le Hamel, France. Newspaper extracts from the Liverpool Echo, Monday Sept. 25 1944, page 4, and the Kent and Sussex Courier 5 April 1996, page 2.

Some dates and places where Sgt. Moffat served during the war.

The Citation for the award of the Victoria Cross to Lt Col A.C. Newman The Essex Regt No 2 Commando and Commander of the land forces St Nazaire raid 27/28th March 1942.

Follow this link to learn more about all the Commandos awarded the Victoria Cross

An article about Lance Corporal Roland Oliver, 'F' Troop, No.4 Commando, meeting his sister in belgium during the war. Published in the Western Gazette 24 November 1944.

Captain Keith Douglas Ponsford describes his time in training, and at Normandy on DDay and after as a Lieutenant and then Acting Captain in 3 Troop, No.3 Commando. Written after he had emigrated to Australia and later submitted to the Department of Veterans Affairs in Australia. Home address removed. Provided to the Commando Veterans Archive by Pam Waterhouse. 

Gunner Eric Rabbitt, No.1 (Army) Commando, was awarded the Military Medal in recognition of gallant and distinguished service at Alethangyaw, Arakan, Burma. This article about his funeral was published in the Northampton Chronicle and Echo, 4 February 1987.

Corporal George Robertson died at the 50th Field Hospital US Army, Portland Island Dorset, of wounds inflicted at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy. 

Newspaper report of the death of Acting Corporal Raymond Ryder who was shot and killed in 1951 whilst part of a patrol that was ambushed by a strong force of communist terrorists about eight miles from Kuala Kangsar, Perak, Also killed was Lieutenant J.B. Coop. Published in the Sheerness Times Guardian 13 April 1951.

Captain Ralph Schooley, 'B' troop, died during operations on the enemy held island of Brac, Yugoslavia. Mentioned in Despatches for outstanding service whilst operating with the Allied Armies in Italy. Son of Wilfred John and Gladys Schooley; husband of Catherine Margery Schooley (nee Evans), of Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan. Educated at Warwick School.

Sergeant Nelson Smallbone, No.2 Commando, was killed in action in Italy in March 1945. Article published in the Streatham News 23 March 1945.

Norwood News 10 August 1945. Report about the award of the Military Medal to Marine Johnny Squire for saving the life of his friend Marine David Losban in 1945 at Argenta, Italy. Both were in 43RM Commando.

Newspaper clippings on the death of Sgt.Charles Robert Stanford, Commando School RM, Commando Cliff Assault Wing, who drowned on 24 April 1948 during a training exercise at Porthmeor beach, St. Ives, Cornwall (download above image).

Corporal Sidney Storer was a Police Officer who volunteered for the Commandos in 1942 joining No.9 Commando. Article published in the Stratford-upon-Avon hearld Firiday 16 July 1944

Newspaper article about an action involving these two commandos published in the Birmingham Evening Despatch 07 February 1945.

Lance Sergeant Wilson was killed in action in Italy. This article was published in the Falkirk Herald 15 January 1944.