About 10 men took part in Operation Basalt - the Commando raid on the Island of Sark on the night of October 3rd 1942, Can anyone name the missing members of the raiding squad ? Named so far: Major Geoffrey Appleyard Captain Philip Pinckney Lieut. Anders Lassen (later Major, VC, MC) Corporal Flint Private Redborn Sergeant Horace 'Brummie' Stokes (later of 2nd SAS) Missing Members: ....................
There's a very good account of this raid in the book "Striking Back" (published by Helion) which also names Captain Ogden-Smith as a member of the party John