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Photograph entitled: ‘Mickey’, showing a soldier sitting on the wooden deck of a ship. The hand-written caption says” ‘On ‘Princess Beatrix’ at Plymouth just before St Nazaire raid March 28th 1941’. However the St Nazaire raid was in 1942 and its unclear whether the ‘Princess Beatrix’ was involved in this particular operation so this caption may be wrong. ‘Mickey’ is possibly Michael Burn, who won the Military Cross for his actions leading 6 Troop, No. 2 Commando during the St Nazaire raid in 1942. He was captured after the raid and held as a POW in Colditz Castle. From an album of 121 photographs and postcards (plus one loose image) relating to Norman Leonard Palmer, 1937 (c) -1945, who served with No. 2 Commando, 2nd Special Service Brigade and 56th Reconnaissance Regiment. Images relate to training and service in Scotland, Italy, Austria and Gibraltar. The collection also includes Palmer’s membership booklet to the Old Comrades Association of the Special Service Brigade. Associated with World War Two (1939-1945).

St Nazaire Raid, 1942 (World War Two, North West Europe 1941-1943)