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Stanley Alexander Martin falsified his age in order to enlist into the Royal Signals in 1941.He joined the Special Boat Service in Egypt, which later became part of 1 SAS Regiment, and deployed with L Detachment, Special Boat Squadron, to Greece during Operation Manna.

Stanley Martin also served in Palestine and was demobilised in 1946.

Sergeant Stanley Martin

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Palestine
Arab intransigence over the surge of Jewish immigration that followed the Holocaust in Europe led to the forming of extreme d...

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Greece (Operation Manna)
One company of the 4th Para Battalion was dropped in high winds at Megara airfield 40 miles from Athens suffering numero...
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Sergeant Stanley Martin, undated.
Sergeant Stanley Martin, undated.