No. 43 (Royal Marine) Commando

No. 43 (Royal Marine) Commando

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History

In September Commando was back on BraÄ island with task of supporting two Partisan brigades in preventing German withdrawal (operation EISBÃ„R and KRANICH) but didn't take part in the fighting and only secured small fishing village of Sutivan (here 10 days earlier landed a force of 450 Brandenburg Coastal Jagers before moving on to Hvar for operation SEYDLITZ) while covering flank of 12th Dalmatian Brigade which was entering nearby Supetar abandoned by Germans before attack could be made. Only casualty was Lieutenant Odendaal who stepped on a mine and lost a foot while inspecting Point 622 were he was wounded back in June.

Staff

Commander

lieutenant-colonel R.W.B. Simonds

lieutenant-colonel Ian MacAlpine

lieutenant-colonel Ian Riches

Deputy Commander

Major Neil Munro

Intelligence officers

Lieutenant Frost

Assistant Adjutant

Lieutenant Hancock, killed in air attack on 28 March on Vis island

A Troop

Captain Jock Hudspith

B Troop

Captain Ralph Gerald 'Gerry' Schooley, killed on 3 June 1944 on BraÄ island

Lieutenant Odendaal, wounded on 3 June 1944

C Troop

Captain Bob Loudoun

D Troop

Captain John P. Blake, killed on 3 June 1944

Captain Ian Gourlay

E Troop

Captain Lee

Captain Ralph Parkinson-Cumine

lieutenant William Glyn 'Bill' Jenkins

Lieutenant Gregory

lieutenant Abbott

lieutenant D.B. Clark

corporal J.G. Stickney

Operations

Operation ENDOWMENT -Allied raid on Hvar island

Operation FARRIER - Allied raid on Mljet island

Operation FLOUNCED - Allied raid on BraÄ island

Operation EISBÃ„R

Operation KRANICH

Reference

Small War in the Balkans: British Military Involvement in Wartime Yugoslavia 1941-1945 by Michael McConville

Commando Subaltern at War: Royal Marine Operations in Yugoslavia and Italy, 1944-45 by W. G. Jenkins

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