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Oakes, Orbell Ray	21.07.1920 - 01.1989 Bury St Edmunds district, Suffolk	T/2nd Lt. 10.10.1940 T/Lt. 10.04.1941 Lt. 1944?, seniority 10.04.1941 (reld > 04.1946) DSC 25.07.1944 Operations Veritas & Ridge (air strikes on German shipping off Norway, 04.44)	? - (02.1941) 31st RM Howitzer Battery 07.11.1941 - (12.)1941 HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton, Gosport, Hampshire) 22.12.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (for posting to Kingston, Ontario, Canada) 16.11.1942 - (02.)1943 pilot, HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset) 27.03.1943 - (06.)1944 pilot, 804 Squadron FAA [04.1944 at HMS Emperor (escort carrier)] (07.1943 temporarily in command) [took part in operations off Norway (04.1944)]  (08.1944) pilot, 800 Squadron FAA [Operation Dragoon (invasion of southern France (08.1944))] 10.12.1944 - (07.1945) pilot, 759 Squadron FAA [HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)] ? - (04.1946) Portsmouth Division, RM
O'Brien, Albert Peter "Mickie" Son of Maj. Albert William O'Brien (1894-1970), MBE, RM, and Violet D. Gunney (?-1960). Married 1st ((09?).1954) Eva E. 'Eve' Stevens (?-1968), daughter of Mr Barney Stevens, of Barnaloft, St Ives, Cornwall, and the late Mrs Stevens; one son, one daughter. Married 2nd (1993; divorced 1997) Sheila Gilleney.	08.08.1921 Plymouth district, Devon - 29.08.2010 Oliva, Spain	Prob. 2nd Lt. 01.09.1940 Prob. Lt. 11.01.1942 Lt. 17.02.1943, seniority 11.01.1942 A/Capt. 15.02.1944-15.05.1944, 08.08.1945-(07.1948) Capt. 11.01.1950 (retd 1950) MC 19.12.1944 services NW Europe (raiding patrol at Salenelles 23.07.44) * * Lt O'Brien was leading a patrol in a "silent" raid on the enemy's FDLs east of Sallenelles early in the morning of 23 July. When about 50 yds from the enemy position, one man of the patrol trod on an anti-personnel mine. Surprise was lost. The enemy opened heavy automatic fire aided by flares. For a moment it looked as if the patrol would fail in their task but Lt O'Brien by his total disregard of danger, by his personal example and by his determination, got the patrol together again and led them into the enemy position. When the patrol had returned to our own lines with an officer prisoner, Lt O'Brien, hearing that some of the patrol were missing, returned to the enemy minefield, moving through our defensive fire and stayed there, in the fast-growing light, until all the wounded had been removed.	01.09.1940     commissioned, RM 1940 - (10.1940) RM course, Plymouth ? - (02.)1941 RM course, Chatham 1941 - (12.1941) RM course, RM Military School (Thurlestone) 02.06.1942 - (10).1943 HMS Anson (battleship) 1943 - (12.1943) RM Training Group Dalditch 1944 - (07.)1944 Officer Commanding, 'Y' Troop, 47 RM Commando (UK, Normandy) 1944 - (10.1944) RM Holding Commando ? - (01.)1945 44 RM Commando (Far East; seriously wounded in the Battle of Hill 170 at Kangaw in Burma) 1945 - (07.1945) RM Holding Commando ? - (04.1946) HOC (Lt) [= Holding Company ??] (07.1948) - (05.1949) climbing instructor, Commando Cliff Assault Wing ? - (05.)1950 Commando School RM Trainee manager, Sutcliffe Catering, 1954, later to become managing director and chairman, until retirement in 1973. Moved successively to Australia, Cyprus, Florida, Costa Rica, Malta, Majorca and finally Oliva, in Spain.
Ovens, Patrick John Son of late Edward Alec Ovens and Mary Linsell Ovens, Cirencester. Married (1952), Margaret Mary White; one son, two daughters.	04.11.1922 - 29.01.1994 Southampton district, Hampshire	... ... Lt. 04.01.1943 ... ... Maj.Gen. ? (retd 1979) OBE 08.06.1968 HM's birthday 68 [investiture 26.11.68] MC 18.05.1951 Korea 11.50	Education: King's School, Bruton. 1941     commissioned into Royal Marines 1942 - 1943 HMS Illustrious ? - (07.1945) RM Holding Commando 1945     46 RM Commando       HQ 3rd Commando Bde, 1946-48; 41 Independent Commando, Korea, 1950-52; HQ Portsmouth Gp, 1952-55; psa 1955-56; Staff of CGRM, 1959-61; Amphibious Warfare Sqdn, 1961-62; 41 Commando, 1963-65, CO 1965-67; C­in­C Fleet Staff, 1968-69; Comdr 3 Commando Bde, 1970-72; RCDS 1973; COS to Comdt Gen., RM, MoD, 1974-76. Commandant, Joint Warfare Establishment, 1976-79

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