Allied Forces Index

This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you agree to accept cookies. If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation.     Site Home     WW2 Home     Add Stories     WW2 Search     Library     Help & FAQs  WW2 Features     Airfields     Allied Army     Allied Air Forces     Allied Navy     Axis Forces     Home Front     Battles     Prisoners of War     Allied Ships     Women at War     Those Who Served     Day-by-Day     Library     The Great War  Submissions     Add Stories     Time Capsule     Childrens Bookshop  FAQ's     Help & FAQs     Glossary     Volunteering     Contact us     News     Bookshop     About Advertisements World War 2 Two II WW2 WWII 1939 1945

No.5 Commando    No. 5 Special Service Battalion was formed in November 1940 from Nos. 5 and 6 Independent Companies. In February 1941 they were renamed No. 5 Commando. In august of that year they took part in raids on the French coast. They saw action in May 1943 in Madagascar and Bombay, India in January 1944, moving to Burma in March, In 1945 they served in Hong Kong before being amalgamated with No. 1 Commando, to form No. 1/5 Commando in 1945. No. 6 Commando saw action in Norway in December 1941, in April 1942 they took part in raids on the French coast. They were in North Africa from November 1942 returning to Britain in April 43 to prepare for the D-Day invasion. They took part in the landings in Normandy and fought in North Western Europe.   28th Mar 1942 In Action 7th May 1943 Exercise Thunder April 1944 Reliefs 9th Nov 1944 Raids 22nd Nov 1944 In Action 23rd Nov 1944 Prisoner 13th Dec 1944 Training   29th Dec 1944 Orders 3rd January 1945 Landing 3rd Jan 1945 Landings   4th Jan 1945 Advance   6th Jan 1945 Patrols   10th Jan 1945 Recce   12th Jan 1945 Landings   13th Jan 1945 In Action   14th Jan 1945 Patrols 15th Jan 1945 Attack Made   16th Jan 1945 Patrols 16th Jan 1945 Advance   18th Jan 1945 Patrols   20th Jan 1945 Preparations 21st Jan 1945 On the Move   22nd Jan 1945 Advance   31st Jan 1945 Enemy Attack 1st Feb 1945 Moping up 1st Feb 1945 Reliefs 5th Feb 1945 Address If you can provide any additional information, especially on actions and locations at specific dates, please add it here. Those known to have served with No.5 Commando during the Second World War 1939-1945. Nicolle Roy John. Pte Rose Harry. L/Cpl. Skeggs Walter Thomas George. Pte. The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of No.5 Commando from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. Announcements 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time. The Wartime Memories Project has been running for 25 years. If you would like to support us, a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting and admin or this site will vanish from the web. 19th Nov 2024 - Please note we currently have a huge backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 264989 your information is still in the queue, please do not resubmit, we are working through them as quickly as possible. Looking for help with Family History Research?   Please read our Family History FAQs The free to access section of The Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers and funded by donations from our visitors. If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation. Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the War? Our Library contains an ever growing number diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to WW2. We would like to obtain digital copies of any documents or photographs relating to WW2 you may have at home. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. World War 1 One ww1 wwII second 1939 1945 battalion Did you know? We also have a section on The Great War. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. Want to know more about No.5 Commando? There are:1345 items tagged No.5 Commando available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War. Pte. Walter Thomas George Skeggs 2nd Btn. Dorsetshire Regiment I have found two records showing my father, Walter Skeggs, as missing in action and then as a casualty in June 1940, so possibly from the evacuation at Dunkirk. I have also found notes saying that he was a commando and, I believe that this may have been 5 Commando as 5 Commando were formed in Bridlington, East Yorkshire around the time that the Dorsetshires were guarding the East Yorkshire coast prior to their deployment to India. Allan Skeggs Add to this record. L/Cpl. Harry Rose 5 Commando Special Service Battalion My father Harry Rose died in 1957 when I was 10, so I didn't have a chance to quiz him about his war years. He joined up on the 4th of September 1939 and was discharged on the 27th of December 1945 with. He served with 51st Royal Tank Regiment and served in Africa and Italy. For a period he was in 5 Commando/5 Special Service but was returned to his unit on the 1st of January 1941. Why? Was it because he put a bullet through the Duchess of Argyllshire's windscreen. My Dad would have been 31 in 1941, maybe a bit of a boy! Jim Rose Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices. Links

The free section of the Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers. We have been helping people find out more about their relatives wartime experiences since 1999 by recording and preserving recollections, documents, photographs and small items. The website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources and we currently have a huge backlog of submissions. If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small to help with the costs of keeping the site running. Hosted by: The Wartime Memories Project Website is archived for preservation by the British Library Copyright MCMXCIX - MMXXIV - All Rights Reserved We do not permit the use of any content from this website for the training of LLMs or for use in Generative AI, it also may not be scraped for the purpose of creating other websites.