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    INDIAN LONG RANGE DESERT SQUADRON / LONG RANGE DESERT GROUP / SAS / SBS
    List of existing threads for individuals who served in above-mentioned units

    1. SSM John ALCOCK, 2 SAS, Operations Pistol & Market Garden
    2. 955100 George ALLEN, Royal Artillery, LRDG & 1 SAS
    3. Reginald Arthur Allen, SBS (King's Royal Rifle Corps) POW Greece (QPR Goal Keeper)
    4. 2655648 John Edward ALMONDS, MM & Bar, Coldstream Guards & SAS Original
    5. 2696599 Guardsman George ANDERSON, 2 Scots Guards & Long Range Desert Group: POW
    6. 13342V Morris Elliot ANDERSON, MC, Union Defence Force attached SBS
    7. 14526586 Vincent ANDREWS, 1st SAS: Operation Archway
    8. 1436512 William Thomas Jessie ASBERY, MM, MiD, Royal Artillery attached SBS
    9. 2931647 Charles BACKHOUSE, MiD, Cameron Highlanders attached 1 Special Air Service
    10. 898919 Edward Hutchison BADGER, MM, Royal Artillery attached SAS
    11. 10231 Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Alger BAGNOLD, OBE, MiD, Royal Corps of Signals ; LRDG
    12. 50396 Lieutenant-Colonel Simon Evan Henry BAILLIE, MiD, Grenadier Guards attached 2 SAS
    13. 3325427 Edward BARR, MM, HLI attached SBS
    14. 3972208 L BATES, MiD, Welch Regiment attached SBS
    15. 2617533 Robert BENNETT, MM, 6 Grenadier Guards & 1 SAS
    16. 5727819 George S H BIFFIN, 1 SAS
    17. 2660354 James BLAKENEY, Coldstream Guards & SAS Original (The 'Tobruk Four')
    18. 397220 C A BLEWETT, MiD, Welch Regiment attached SBS
    19. 72683(V) Captain Charles William BLUETT, Natal Mounted Rifles & Raiding Support Regiment: POW
    20. 53138 Captain Hugh William BLYTH, Scots Guards & SBS: POW
    21. 3316568 Stanley BOLDEN, MM, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders attached 2nd SAS Regiment
    22. Charles John BONINGTON, L Detachment SAS
    23. S.R. 598859 (V) Signalman Gordon Raglan BRODERICK, South African Corps of Signals & LRDG: POW
    24. 2695138 William Gordon BROUGH, MM, 2 Scots Guards attached SAS
    25. 8753 Francis Richard BROWN, MM, New Zealand Military Forces attached LRDG
    26. 1443798 William Hogg BROWN, MM, SBS
    27. 1568553 Lawrence BROWNLEE, MM, 2 SAS
    28. 124535 Harry Alexander Desmond 'Kelpie' BUCHANAN, MC, Grenadier Guards, 8 Commando & SBS
    29. 5051681 Lance-Corporal Jack BUCKLEY, Special Air Service: POW
    30. 321601 Sgt/Cpl. Leslie Gordon Burgess, RAC 11 Commando LRDG (Italy)
    31. 6401944 Corporal Cecil BUSS, MM, Royal Sussex Regiment & LRDG
    32. 2927900 Corporal Howard Herbert Cosens BUTLER, South Lancashire Regiment & SBS: POW
    33. 6918661 Lance-Corporal Walter BYATT, Rifle Brigade & Long Range Desert Group: POW
    34. 2060658 Jack (John Victor) BYRNE, DCM, Gordon Highlanders & SAS
    35. 410258 Ewen CAMERON, Lovat Scouts, 2 SAS & Popski's Private Army
    36. 228677 Brian Maxwell Montague CARPENDALE, 2 SAS
    37. 3321164 Herbert CASTELOW, MM, Special Air Service
    38. 2325384 Serjeant Frank CARTLIDGE, Royal Corps of Signals & Special Air Service: POW
    39. 6141548 Charles CATTELL, MM, 1 East Surrey Regiment attached Special Air Service
    40. 410317 Trooper Henry Charles CHARD, Long Range Desert Group: POW
    41. 130622 David CLARK, MC, Cheshire Regiment attached SBS
    42. 210533 Kingsley Edward Gordon CLARKE, MC, Royal Tank Regiment attached SBS
    43. 147264 Patrick Andrew CLAYTON, DSO, MBE, Intelligence Corps attached LRDG
    44. 2720127 Martin Henry CONBY, MM, Irish Guards attached SBS
    45. 1892756 Frank Thomas COOK, MM, Royal Engineers attached 2 SAS
    46. 2698113 John Murdoch COOPER, DCM, 2 Scots Guards & Special Air Service
    47. 5047438 SSM Albert John COTTERILL, A Squadron, 2 Special Air Service: POW
    48. 105460 Roger James Allen COURTNEY, MC, KRRC & SBS
    49. 6857923 Donald Tudor COVENTRY, DCM, King's Royal Rifle Corps attached LRDG
    50. 37112 Merlyn CRAW, MM, NZ Military Forces attached LRDG
    51. 2662444 Jack CROSSLEY, MM, 3 Coldstream Guards attached LRDG
    52. 2733825 Lance-Corporal Leslie Joseph CUMMINS, Welsh Guards & SAS : POW
    53. 202597 William John CUMPER, MC, MiD, Royal Engineers attached 1 SAS
    54. M269 Corporal Alfred Ira CURLE, Long Range Desert Group: POW
    55. 353491 David Lambert Paxton DANGER, MBE, MM, SAS Original
    56. 2719505 Michael D'ARCY, MM, Irish Guards attached Special Boat Service
    57. 7890209 Sapper Robert Duckworth Erskine DAVIDSON, Royal Engineers & Special Air Serviice: POW
    58. 2734997 Roy David DAVIES, Welsh Guards & 1 SAS Reg: 08/04/1945 Schneeren
    59. 184425 Peter Julian Geoffry DAVIS, MC, 1 SAS
    60. 5339353 Tpr Walter Charles DEANE, MM, 1st SAS Regiment
    61. 1077347 Gunner Frederick DELLOW, Royal Artillery & 2nd Special Air Service: POW
    62. 245687 Patrick Anthony DENISON, MC, RAC attached 2 SAS
    63. 85608 Brian Edeveain DILLON, MBE, The Royal Norfolk Regiment; SAS; SOE.
    64. 1203 Thomas Bruce DOBSON, MM, Long Range Desert Group
    65. 94814 Lieutenant Ralph DODDS, 2 Special Air Service: POW
    66. 2135077 Sapper William DODDS, Royal Enginers & 2 SAS: 07/03/1944
    67. 64961 Trooper Lloyd DOEL, 2nd NZEF & Long Range Desert Group: POW
    68. 29533 Corporal Charles or Cyril Alfred DORNBUSH, MM, Long Range Desert Group: POW
    69. 256872 William Patrick DUFFY, MM, 1 SAS
    70. 2695425 Roy DUNCALFE, MM, 2 Scots Guards attached Long Range Desert Group
    71. Trooper Robert DUNN, Royal Scots Fusiliers & SAS
    72. 1881068 Serjeant Edward William DURIE, MM, Royal Engineers & Special Air Service: POW
    73. 140546 John Richard EASONSMITH, DSO, MC, LRDG
    74. 3054349 John EASTON, MiD, Scots Guards attached Long Range Desert Group
    75. Award Military Cross Lt. J. Easton (218988) 2nd Special Air Service Escape from Camp 19 (Bologna)
    76. 277662 Stanley Norman EASTWOOD, MC, MiD, Buffs attached LRDG
    77. 4032370 Derek Charles ELLIS, MM, KSLI attached SBS
    78. 16503 Eric ELLIS, MM, New Zealand Divisional Cavalry Regiment attached LRDG
    79. 4976245 Pte Augustus George EVANS MM, Sherwood Foresters & SBS - Service records?
    80. 129133 Roy Alexander FARRAN, DSO MC**, 3 Carabiniers attached 2 SAS
    81. 2615284 Cyril FEEBERY, DCM, MiD, Grenadier Guards & 1 SAS
    82. 5573096 Pct Ernest George FENEMORE, Wiltshire Regiment & 1st SAS: POW
    83. 70468 Ian FENWICK, MiD, 1 SAS
    84. 3311851 Private Douglas FERGUSON, MM, HLI & SAS: 08 April 1945 - Missing MM Citation
    85. 166084 Simon Denis St. Ledger FLEMING, Royal Artillery & LRDG
    86. 148582 Captain Dudley Crofton FOLLAND, Long Range Desert Group: POW
    87. 85455 Michael Richard Daniell FOOT, MiD, Royal Artillery attached Special Air Service
    88. 89085 Brian Morton Forster FRANKS, DSO, MC, Royal Signals & 2 SAS
    89. 132513 Maj Bill FRASER, Gordon Highlanders & SAS Original
    90. 47293 (105605) Eric Francis GARLAND, MBE, MC*, York & Lancaster Regiment, Layforce & Royal Air Force
    91. 95531 Pat GARSTIN, MC, RUR & 1st SAS
    92. 2937931 George GEMMELL, Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders & SAS
    93. 976483 John GILMOUR, MM*, Royal Artillery attached SBS
    94. Help with Service Records. David Goldie - Scots Guards, L Detachment SAS, Special Raiding Squadron.
    95. 6397316 L/Serjeant Ernest Edward GOLDSMITH, Sussex Regt & Special Raiding Squadron
    96. 4983016 Private Arthur Edward GOODFELLOW, 2 Special Air Service: POW
    97. 3908561 Parachutist Frederick William GOODHALL, 1 Special Air Service: POW
    98. Cmdr Harold Goulding DSO, SBS: memorial 21 Aug 2015
    99. 180710 Lt Ian Maxwell GRANT, Gordon Highlanders & 2nd SAS : which Army Commando?
    100. 56997 Robert de Merve Low GRANT-WATSON, MiD, 2 Scots Guards, SBS & SAS
    101. 1882893 Sidney GREAVES, MM, Royal Engineers attached SBS
    102. 798106 Corporal John GREGSON, RA & 1 SAS: POW
    103. 2822381 Private David GUNN, MM, 5 Seaforth Highlanders attached LRDG: POW
    104. 124477 John St. George GUNSTON, Irish Guards and Special Air Service Regiment
    105. CH/X 1993 Corporal Henry Gordon Albert GURNEY, MiD, Royal Marines & Special Boat Service: POW
    106. 2696856 Guardsman David Grugan HANNAH, Scots Guards & LRDG: POW
    107. 3712934 John HAND, MM, SBS,1 SAS
    108. 145763 Derrick Inskip HARRISON, MC, 1 SAS
    109. 17526 Trooper Richard David HAYES, 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force & Long Range: POW
    110. 1595481 Gunner Austin HEHIR, MM, Royal Artillery & SAS: POW, E&E
    111. RH/1095786 Ernest Joseph HENDERSON, Royal Artillery & Long Range Desert Group: A Rhodesian
    112. 2720347 Patrick HENDERSON, MM, Irish Guards
    113. 214954 Grant St. John HIBBERT, DSO, MiD, Royal Artillery & 2 SAS
    114. 14203257 George Francis HIGGINS, MM, Royal Engineers attached 2 SAS
    115. 3711552 Serjeant Richard HIGHAM, MM, 1 Special Air Service: POW
    116. 5550150 Serjeant Paul HILL, Hampshire Regiment & 2SAS: POW
    117. 7909829 William Ronald HILL, MiD, 2 Royal Gloucester Hussars attached LRDG
    118. 70647 John Leslie HISLOP, MC, Royal Artillery attached SAS
    119. 2617665 Richard James HOLMES, MM, Grenadier Guards attached SBS
    120. 2657737 Albert HOPTON, 3 Coldstream Guards & Long Range Desert Group: 27/06/41
    121. 55987 Captain The Hon. Alexander Hardinge Patrick HORE-RUTHVEN, MiD, Rifle Brigade & SAS: 24/12/1942
    122. 2655341 John French HOWBRIDGE, Coldstream Guards attached 2nd SAS
    123. 211734 Signalman Henry John HUDSON, Royal Corps of Signals attached Long Range Desert Group: POW
    124. 58117 Anthony Douglas Northey HUNTER, MC, MiD, Royal Scots Fusiliers attached LRDG
    125. 322600 Derek Arthur HUTCHINS, MM, North Somerset Yeomanry attached LRDG
    126. 53282 Victor ITURIA, MM, French Troops attached 1 SAS
    127. 308586 (RH4983829) Cecil James Duke JACKSON, MBE, MM, Sherwood Foresters attached LRDG
    128. 4398311 Parachutist John JEFFRIES, 2nd Special Air Service: POW
    129. 124546 George Patrick John Rushworth JELLICOE, Coldstream Guards, 8 Cdo, SAS, SBS
    130. 2580807 Serjeant Frank H JOHNS, MiD, Royal Corps of Signals & Long Range Desert Group
    131. 2067792 Lance-Corporal Douglas Eric JONES, 11 Special Air Service: POW
    132. 1469628 Raymond Walter JONES, MM, Royal Artillery attached Special Boat Squadron
    133. 40067 Augustin JORDAN, MC, French Troops attached 1 SAS
    134. 130598 Arthur Geoffrey JOWETT, MC, MiD, HLI attached SAS
    135. 2934246 Pct Francis JUDGE, 1st Special Air Service: POW
    136. 845962 Gunner Andrew KANEY, Royal Artillery & 1st Special Air Service: POW
    137. 95480 Captain John Hervey KAY, Border Regiment & Long Range Desert Group: POW
    138. 320025 William Faa Blythe KENNEDY, MM, MiD, Royal Scots Greys attached 1 SAS
    139. 146099 William Boyd KENNEDY SHAW, OBE, MiD, Intelligence Corps, LRDG & SAS
    140. 4121663 David KERSHAW, MM, 6 Grenadier Guards attached SAS
    141. 71081 Geoffrey Charles Tasker KEYES, VC, MC, Royal Scots Greys, 11 Commando: 18/11/1941
    142. 200079 Anthony Henry Ivor KINSMAN, Grenadier Guards & Long Range Desert Group
    143. GB105 Gilbert Sadi Jakue Albert KIRSCHEN, DSO, Belgian Independent Parachute Squadron, SAS
    144. 132519 John Neilson 'Ian' LAPRAIK, DSO, OBE, MC*, TD, Cameron Highlanders, SBS & SAS
    145. 2370467 Corporal Edgar Robert LARRATT, MiD, Royal Corps of Signals, Raiding Forces Signals: POW
    146. 234907 Anders Frederick Emil Victor Schau LASSEN, VC, MC**, 62 Commando, SAS, SBS
    147. 115755 Richard Pike LAWSON, MB, MC, MiD, Royal Army Medical Corps attached Long Range Desert Group
    148. 2696900 Serjeant Frank Arthur LEACH, MiD*, 1 Scots Guards & Long Range Desert Group: POW
    149. 175078 James LEES, King's Royal Rifle Corps & SAS
    150. 52297 Jean LE GALL, MM, French Troops attached 1 SAS
    151. 40102 Michel LEGRAND, MC*, French Troops attached 1 SAS
    152. 65419 John Steel LEWES, Welsh Guards attached L Detachment, Special Air Service
    153. Charles William Martell LEWIS, Long Range Desert Group: POW
    154. 4134199 Thomas James LEWIS, MM, Cheshire Regiment attached LRDG
    155. 2660913 Ernest Thomas LILLEY, MM, MiD, Coldstream Guards & 1 SAS
    156. 5882820 Squadron Sergeant Major John LLOYD, 2 Special Air Service: POW, E&E
    157. 6482237 R W LOASBY, MiD, Royal Fusiliers attached SBS
    158. 1987141 Alan LOCKERIDGE, Royal Engineers & SAS: 7/3/1944
    159. Yves LOICHOT, French Troops attached SAS - casualty (murdered?) Staphorst
    160. 2385615 Signalman Edgar Burton LOWE, Royal Signals & 1 Special Air Service: POW
    161. 2929977 Robert Charles LOWSON, MM, 1 SAS
    162. 7263967 Corporal Dennis LUMB, Royal Army Medical Corps, Raiding Support Regiment: POW
    163. 198819 Eric John Alfred LUNN, MC*, MiD, Royal Artillery attached SBS
    164. 2763368 Private Douglas Fargie LYLE, Black Watch & Long Range Desert Group: POW
    165. 3312959 Private Robert Hamilton MacDONALD, Highland Light Infantry & 1 Special Air Service: POW
    166. 176139 James Hamilton MACKIE, MC*, Cameronians attached 2 SAS
    167. 17547 Trooper John Bernard MAGEE, 2nd NZEF, Long Range Desert Group: POW
    168. 6857915 Rifleman Frank MAIDWELL, Long Range Desert Group: POW
    169. 3911316 Private James MALONEY, Long Range Desert Group: POW
    170. Captain D C Mather MC, Welsh Guards and Captain G Alston, Royal Artillery (nearest camera), 1 SAS; IWM E 20084 | WW2Talk
    171. 302835 (1151061) Frederick Gerald MAYNARD, Royal Artillery & SAS
    172. 87306 Robert Blair "Paddy" MAYNE, DSO & 3 Bars, MiD, Royal Ulster Rifles & 1 SAS
    173. 173497 William Harkins McBETH, MiD, 1 SAS
    174. T/95669 Driver George McCALLUM, Royal Army Service Corps & Long Range Desert Group: POW
    175. ILRS Major McCoy
    176. 2888389 Corneilus McGINN, MM, 1 SAS
    177. 77601 James Alistair McGREGOR aka Alistair BEVERLEY, DSO, MC, MiD, Royal Scots & 2 SAS
    178. 3314921 John McGUIRE, Pioneer Corps & 2SAS: Operation 'Baobab'
    179. 375621 Trooper Frederick Raymond McKAY, 2nd NZEF & LRDG: POW
    180. 431916 Private Thomas Robert McLELLAND, 2 NZEF & LRDG: POW
    181. 6857924 Rifleman Robert Ian McLEOD, KRRC & Long Range Desert Group: POW
    182. 270929 James Fraser McLUSKEY, MC, RAChD attached 1 SAS
    183. 245277 Charles Robert MOORE, MC, Reconnaissance Corps attached 1 SAS
    184. 85558 George Robert Melville Henry MORE, MC, Royal Engineers attached Layforce
    185. 6402427 Serjeant Leslie Sydney Douglas MORLEY, MM, Royal Sussex Regiment & Long Range Desert Group
    186. 403888 Trooper Kenneth MORRIS, 1st Special Air Service: POW
    187. 2756712 William MORRIS, MM, Black Watch & 1 SAS
    188. 134303 Alexander Desmond MUIRHEAD, MC, MiD, Worcestershire Regiment & 1 SAS
    189. 1434443 John Marshall MURRAY, MM, MiD, 1 SAS
    190. 153984 George Eric NEWBY, CBE, MC, Black Watch & SBS
    191. 3056933 Jack Turner NICHOLSON, DCM, MM, Royal Scots & SBS
    192. 3977635 A T K O’BRIEN, SAS: Liberation Report
    193. 2719054 Christopher O’DOWD, MM, Irish Guards & Special Air Service Regiment
    194. 2716586 John Myles O’REILLY, MM, Irish Guards attached SBS
    195. 317608 Sgt A J Orwin 2 SAS
    196. 74596 David Lanyon LLOYD OWEN, CB, DSO, OBE, MC, Long Range Desert Group
    197. 233300 J C C PAGNAM, MiD, Gordon Highlanders attached SBS
    198. 4393311 Signalman Thomas Mellodew PARKER, Raiding Forces : POW
    199. 323569 Lance-Corporal Robert Henry PARRY-JONES, Cheshire Yeomanry & Long Range Desert Group: POW
    200. Howard Michael PARSONS, Royal Army Medical Corps & LRDG MO
    201. 130870 George Robert PATERSON, MC**, Royal Engineers attached SAS
    202. 69411 Ian Norman PATTERSON, MC, MiD, RA, Parachute Regt & SBS
    203. 5052531 Lance-Corporal Henry Charles PEXTON, North Staffordshire Regiment & SAS: POW
    204. 5107891 Arthur PHILLIPS, MM, Royal Warwickshire Regiment & 1 SAS
    205. 114036 Maxwell PHILLIPS, MC, Union Defence Force attached RSR
    206. 6917244 Parachutist Thomas Gilbert PHILLIPS, Rifle Brigade & Special Air Service: POW
    207. 398476 Trooper Clyde Thomas PICKERING, 2nd NZEF & Long Range Desert Group: POW
    208. 76537 Mark Leslie PILKINGTON, MC, Life Guards & LRDG
    209. 1531269 Geoffrey PITMAN, MM, 1 SAS
    210. 133658 Malcolm James PLEYDELL, MC, Royal Army Medical Corps attached 1 SAS
    211. 3456406 Douglas POMFORD, MM*, South Lancashire Regiment attached SBS
    212. 2591671 Corporal Walter Thomas POOLE, Royal Signals & Long Range Desert Group: POW
    213. 14265 Lance-Corporal (assumed rank 2/Lt) Raymond Thomson PORTER, LRDG, 2NZEF: POW
    214. 242296 Peter Lancelot John le Poer POWER, MC, MiD, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers & SAS
    215. 91680 Lieutenant John Marlborough PRYOR, Hertfordshire Regt & Special Boat Service: POW, Op Flipper
    216. 2718228 Maurice Joseph REYNOLDS, Irish Guards & 2 Special Air Service Regiment
    217. 4536675 Sydney RHODES, West Yorkshire Regiment & 2nd SAS
    218. 3307075 Trooper Arthur RHODIE, Highland Light Infantry ; Raiding Force H.Q,: POW
    219. 137803 James Arthur RICCOMINI, MBE, MC, 2 SAS
    220. 180311 Cecil Leyland RIDING, MC, Highland Light Infantry & 1 SAS
    221. 281325 (2656281) Charles George Gibson "Pat" RILEY, DCM, Coldstream Guards & 1 SAS
    222. 2553925 Signalman Denis RILEY, Royal Signals & Long Range Desert Group: POW
    223. 2657805 Guardsman Wilfred ROBERTS, Coldstream Guards & Long Range Desert Group: POW
    224. 249031 James Barrett ROBERTSON, MC, Royal Artillery attached 2 SAS
    225. R A ROBERTSON, 2 SAS
    226. 1113 Lawrence 'Clarrie' RODERICK, NZ Armoured Corps & LRDG: POW
    227. 4124285 John ROOKES, 2nd Special Air Service Regiment: Bronze Star Medal
    228. 2617725 Graham ROSE, MM*, MiD, Grenadier Guards attached 1 SAS
    229. 148704 Desmond Cecil ROSS, MC, Royal Artillery attached Raiding Support Regiment
    230. 132235 George Anthony RUSSELL, MC, MiD, Scots Guards, SAS & SOE
    231. 282465 (1095726) Willis Michael SADLER, MC, MM, Royal Artillery, Long Range Desert Group & 1 SAS
    232. 598 Edgar SANDERS, MM, New Zealand Military Forces attached LRDG
    233. 6855058 Robert William SAVAGE, King's Royal Rifle Corps & LRDG
    234. 6014299 Charles Langoon SAWYER, MM, 1/4 Essex Regiment attached SAS
    235. 2617003 Serjeant Andrew SEDDON, Grenadier Guards & 2nd Special Air Service: POW
    236. 5933155 Reginald SEEKINGS, DCM, Cambridgeshire Regiment attached Special Air Service
    237. 305079 (T/106321) James Barlow Brooks SHERWOOD, MM, RASC attached SBS; Royal Ulster Rifles
    238. 2621940 R SIDLOW, MiD*, Grenadier Guards attached SBS
    239. 324811 John William SILLITO, MM*, Staffordshire Yeomanry attached 1 SAS
    240. 304006 James Lovitt SILLY, 2 SAS
    241. 40719 Francis Crofton SIMMS, MC, Royal Warwickshire Regiment & LRDG
    242. 71403 Lieutenant David James SKIPWITH, Sudan Defence Force & Long Range Desert Group: POW
    243. 6405512 Private Frank Ernest Lewis SMITH, Royal Sussex Regiment & Long Range Desert: POW
    244. 323482 Brian Crozier SPRINGFORD, MM, Royal Gloucestershire Hussars attached Long Range Desert Group
    245. 2719242 Gordon Arthur STAINROD, Irish Guards attached Special Boat Service
    246. 304543 Montague STAPLES, 1 SAS: KIA 1943
    247. 38212 Private Bruce STEEDMAN, 6th New Zealand Field Ambulance, 2nd NZEF attd LRDG: POW
    248. 95606 Lieutenant Tomos Mansel STEPHENS, South Wales Borderers & 1 SAS: 04/07/1944
    249. 2581346 Leslie Norman STEPHENSON, DCM, MiD, Royal Signals attached SBS
    250. 72647 Archibald David STIRLING, DSO, OBE, MiD, Scots Guards attached SAS
    251. 927044 Lance-Serjeant Horace Leonard STOKES, Royal Artillery & 2nd Special Air Service: POW
    252. 3314034 Robert STORRIE, MiD, Royal Engineers attached SBS
    253. 233962 Duncan Neilson STRACHAN, Scots Guards
    254. Awards D.S.O. & O.B.E. Capt. Vivian Wakefield STREET, M.C. 1 Special Air Service
    255. 158471 Peter Molyneux STUART, Devonshire Regiment & 2nd SAS Regiment
    256. 7362709 Edward Charles STURROCK, MM, Royal Army Medical Corps attached LRDG
    257. 7612534 Craftsman Leslie SULLIVAN, REME & Long Range Desert Group: POW
    258. 6896822 Robert Arthur Lever SUMMERS, MM, MiD,King's Royal Rifle Corps attached Special Boat Squadron
    259. 108190 David George Carr SUTHERLAND, MC & Bar, Black Watch & SBS
    260. 2888693 Robert TAIT, MM* London Scottish attached Special Air Service
    261. 1037 Captain John Rowland TALBOT, 2 NZEF & Long Range Desert Group: POW
    262. 132220 Edward Henry Bouhier IMBERT-TERRY, MC, Coldstream Guards attached 1 SAS
    263. 226916 (2873628) Lewis Ligertwood Legg TEVENDALE, DCM, Gordon Highlanders, Layforce
    264. 6844525 Serjeant Percy Roy THORPE, MM, 2 SAS: 19/04/1945
    265. 7615706 Alfred TIGHE, MM, REME attached LRDG
    266. 124473 John Alastair Livingstone TIMPSON, MC, MiD*, Scots Guards attached Long Range Desert Group
    267. 7483 Ronald Arthur TINKER, MC, MM, 2 New Zealand Expeditionary Force attached LRDG
    268. 20441 Keith Elliott TIPPETT, MM, 2 New Zealand Divisional Cavalry & Long Range Desert Group
    269. 2719627 Charles Francis TOBIN, Irish Guards & 1 Special Air Service Regiment
    270. 1879342 Lance-Corporal Harold Nelson TOMLIN, Royal Engineers & 11 Special Air Service: POW
    271. 200156 John Eliot TONKIN, MC, MiD, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers & 1 SAS
    272. 5383884 Pte. Frederick Charles TRENFIELD, Ox & Bucks & SAS: Looking for info
    273. 2695669 Guardsman Thomas Charles TRISTAIN, Scots Guards & LRDG: Escaper & Evader
    274. 7955160 Martine Edward TYSON, 2 SAS : 07/06/1922 - 16/04/1945)
    275. 6857914 Rifleman Louis John VAN HEERDEN, King's Royal Rifle Corps & LRDG: POW - BFC? Death?
    276. 2885910 Jeffrey DU VIVIER, MM, attached SAS
    277. 6346220 Lance-Corporal Reginald Lionel VIDLER, Special Air Service: POW
    278. 74210 Robert WALKER BROWN, DSO, MBE, HLI & 2 SAS
    279. 2093963 Serjeant John Edward Hall WALKER, RE & 11 SAS: POW
    280. 7622054 Stanley Leyton WALSH, MM, 2 SAS
    281. 5955910 Augustus WATKINS, MiD, Royal Engineers attached 1 SAS
    282. Norman (The Fox) WATSON, SAS: Obituary
    283. 1060893 Edwin WEAVER, 2 Special Air Service: 16/10/1944
    284. 5190987 Kenneth William WEBBER, MM, 2 SAS
    285. 2695516 Mark Alexander WELSH, MM, Scots Guards attached Long Range Desert Group
    286. 2056391 Gunner Michael Robert WHALEN, Long Range Desert Group: POW
    287. 2048644 Signalman Harold WHEELDON, MiD, Royal Signals & Long Range Desert Group: 09/10/1943
    288. 3535141 Frederick Henry 'Chalky' WHITE, DCM, MM, Loyal Regiment attached 1 SAS
    289. 154976 Harold WHITE, MM, Royal Army Service Corps attached LRDG
    290. 833924 L/Bombardier Roger WHITE, MM, RA & 2 SAS: 26/10/1943 - MiD?
    291. 162512 Harold Vere HOLDEN-WHITE, MC, MID, Royal Sussex Regiment attached SBS
    292. 1945113 Lance-Corporal William Franklyn WHITEHEAD, Royal Engineers & Long Range Desert Group: POW
    293. 63144 Edward Antony FitzHerbert WIDDRINGTON, MC, MiD, 5 Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards & 2 SAS
    294. 21988 Nicholas Perry WILDER, DSO, 2 New Zealand Division attached LRDG
    295. 2327792 Signalman Leonard Frederick WILLIAMS, Royal Signals & LRDG: POW
    296. 3909922 Thomas Ivor WILLIAMS, MM, MiD*, South Wales Borderers attached SBS
    297. 318000 James WILSON, MM, Scots Guards attached Long Range Desert Group
    298. 4454514 Lance-Corporal Ronald WOOD, MiD, 1SAS: POW
    299. 232585 Lieutenant David Grey WORCESTER, MC, 2SAS: POW
    300. 2616117 Douglas WRIGHT, MM, Grenadier Guards attached SBS
    301. 14241643 H WRIGHT, MiD, Royal Artillery & SBS
    302. 896939 Parachutist Douglas Herbert WYNNE, Royal Artillery & 1st Special Air Service: POW
    303. 2619493 George YATES, Grenadier Guards attached SAS
     
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    Dear dbf, No.80 (maybe?) for your consideration (and thank you so much for starting this thread, again, excellent work on your part).

    From a thread started by Vitellino a few months back (just one of many humbling threads started by this dear lady).

    Lieutenant Fleming and Rifleman Savage LRDG Italy June 1944

    I'd posted the casualty details in pdf format within said thread (as I'd hoped at the time they would be easier for Vitellino to download for her records).

    Kind regards, always,

    Jim.
     
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    Thanks Jim,
    Rather than messing about with original thread, I've created new threads for each man and linked your post in both.
     
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    Some additions for the Indian Long Range Squadron (ILRS), more details on the ILRS on its own thread:

    Lieutenant James Edward Cantlay . .Commissioned into the Indian Army on the 15th November 1934. Promoted Acting, then Temporary Major in 1944, remained with the ILRS upon their return to India and became a substantive Major in August 1946. He died in 2001, in Dorset. From: Officers of the Indian Army 1939-1945 -- B and papers with the author of http://www.lrdg.org/Indian_Long_Range_Patrol.htm

    Captain Travers John Durrant Birdwood . At the start he acted as the unit’s Adjutant. Promoted Captain 1942, he remained with the ILRS after North Africa and served in Persia, he retired 1946 and died 1983. From: Officers of the Indian Army 1939-1945 -- B and papers with the author of http://www.lrdg.org/Indian_Long_Range_Patrol.htm

    Captain Alan Bowring Rand . Born Kingston, Surrey in 1909 and he was commissioned in the Indian Army on 8/4/1941. From: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35241/page/4584/data.pdf He served with the ILRS till the end of the North Africa campaign and returned to his unit. He retired in 1946. From: Officers of the Indian Army 1939-1945 -- B and papers with the author of http://www.lrdg.org/Indian_Long_Range_Patrol.htm He died in 1981 From: Charles Hicks' (bap. 1794-1879), and Anna Thompson's (d. 1878) descendants

    Lieutenant Gilbert William Nangle. A short summary: He had served in an Indian Army infantry battalion, after leaving he served in the Spanish Regiment of Foreigners (also known in Spain as the Foreign Legion) during the Spanish Civil War and by 1940 was serving in the Palestine Police before having an emergency commission and had served in Iraq on secret missions. He left the ILRS for the Gurkhas in early 1942 and died at Monte Cassino in 1944. From: http://www.cookstownwardead.co.uk/persondepth.asp?cas_id=437

    Captain “Bill” Francis Bagenal Boyd . A few details: He served for four years in the ranks of the Queens Own Royal West Kent’s. He was with the ILRS till the end of the North Africa campaign and then returned to his unit. He served in the 11th Cavalry (PAVO) and was awarded the Military Cross for his service in 1946 in Java, Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia), he retired as a Major in 1949 and he died in 2006. See: Officers of the Indian Army 1939-1945 -- B and papers with the author of http://www.lrdg.org/Indian_Long_Range_Patrol.htm

    Added 18/12/2022 from a private family biography recently provided:

    Francis Bagenal (Bill) Boyd was born on October the18th, 1913 at the family home, Kiltra House, Carrig on Bannow, County Wexford. Ireland.

    There were several family connections with the British Army and being keen on adventure Bill enlisted, in January 1933, for a nine year engagement as a private soldier in the Royal West Kents which at the time was garrisoned at Maidstone, Kent. After two years in the ranks with promotion to Lance-corporal and later to Corporal and following a third and successful appearance before a selection board, he went to Sandhurst to train as an officer. When he gained his commission he passed out well enough to qualify for a place in the Indian Army. He preferred the Indian Army because the pay was better and it also was less expensive to keep horses in India.

    Following his arrival in India and an initial six month posting with a British Army regiment which was stationed there at the time, Bill then took up the offer of a place in Prince Albert Victor’s Own Cavalry, a regiment in the Indian Army. While the Indian Army was a separate entity, run by the colonial government in India, regiments from Britain were also posted for several years at a time to various parts of the then British Empire including the Indian subcontinent which comprised of what is now India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma and to some extent Ceylon. The PAVO continues today as the 11th Cavalry, one of the premier regiments of the army of Pakistan. While Pakistan is a Muslim country my father received a Christmas card every year, as did his brother officers, from the officers and men of his old regiment until his death in 2006.

    In 1947, at the time of the handover to the new state of Pakistan he retired from the army and together with Bandit, his Dachshund dog, Bill flew back to England.

    Captain Fitzgerald, alas no details found online.

    Second Lieutenant D.G.A. Fitzgerald, alas not fully identified.

    Captain Joseph Edward Havelock Hudson. He commanded the Heavy Section and was the Intelligence Officer. there is a photo in the IWM Collection of a group in May 1943, this lists a Captain J.E.H. Hudson and un-named Sikh driver of the ILRS. See: SERVICE OF LT COL J R ARCHER-BURTON WITH THE CORPS OF ROYAL MILITARY POLICE, EIGHTH ARMY IN NORTH AFRICA, SICILY AND ITALY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 21/4/1936. See: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34308/page/4749/data.pdf He was possibly in the Baluch Regiment officer and upon the ILRS return to India he left them. He later became a diplomat based in Bahrain. See: https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023578238.0x000050 He died in 1976.

    Benjamin Broughton Gingell, a British officer (newly commissioned and ended as a Captain), he served with ILRS in India and Iraq, 1945-1947. Born 15/12/1924 and died April 1994, buried in Plymouth.

    Signalman Nadir KHAN, on 22/2/1943 killed by a booby trap and is buried in Tripoli CWGC Cemetery, Libya. Signalman Khan Nadir (unknown-1943) - Find a Grave... and https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2168984/nadir-khan/

    There was a British RASC soldier killed in the same incident, who may be Gordon Albert Knight, T/228328, of the Royal Army Service Corps). https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2225668/knight,-gordon-albert/ and a driver by trade. From: https://www.forces-war-records.co.u...knight-british-army-royal-army-service-corps/
     
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