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Photograph of 18 members of 6 Troop, No. 2 Commando, in a wooden rowing boat, Inveraray, 1941. Fourteen of the men are rowing whilst the other four sit or stand near the back. Many of the names have been added to the image and Sgt Norman Leonard Palmer is listed as rowing at the front of the boat. The surnames given are: Bones; Boy; Prescott; Smallbone; Fuller; Dawson; Bell; Watt; Morgan Myself; Fuller; Gibson; Harkness; Burn; Mickey Several of these men, such as L/Sgt Peter Harkness, L/Sgt Bill Gibson and Sgt Nelson Smallbone were killed in action during World War Two. 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).

World War Two (1939-1945)