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North Africa (Operation Torch)
On 12 November the 3rd Parachute Battalion (3 Para Bn) jumped onto and seized the vital airfield at Bone between Algiers and ...
24/10/40 Enlisted Mansfield, Notts24/10/40 Posted as Driver to No1 MT Depot Aldershot
18/12/40 Posted to 572 RE, D&C Coy
19/03/41 Posted to Middle East
09/05/41 Disembarked Egypt
22/06/41 Posted to No3 CRE Western Desert Forces, Operation Torch
10/02/43 Posted to 4 Para Sqn RE, Kabrit
15/02/43 No 21 Para Cse
07/06/43 From Middle East to N/Africa
11/09/43 Italy, Operation Slapstick
14/01/45 Returned to UK
13/08/44 To North Western Europe
02/10/44 Returned to UK
26/03/45 Redesignated 1st Airborne Squadron
10/05/45 Norway, Operation Doomsday
12/08/45 Return to UK
03/10/45 Posted to 2 Airborne Sqn RE
01/12/45 249 Fd Coy RE
22/05/46 Demobbed
Service History
- 1940 No 3 Commando, Royal Engineers (Not known)
- 1943 4th Parachute Squadron RE (Lance Corporal)
- 1945 1st Parachute Squadron RE (Lance Corporal)
- 1945 2 Airborne Squadron RE (Lance Corporal)