ARMY CDOS Boucher-Myers, Bertram William Sydney (Bill)

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Boucher-Myers ​

• FORENAME

Bertram William Sydney (Bill) ​

• UNIT

4 Commando (A Troop) ​

• RANK

Captain ​

• NUMBER

112893 ​

• AWARD

Mention in Despatches,Croix de Guerre (Fr) ​

• PLACE

Dieppe 1942 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit East Lancashire Regiment​

born 1.6.1917 Amritsar,India​

educated Bishop Cotton School,Simla,India​

educated King's School,Rochester​

joined Grenadier Guards 1937​

RMC Sandhurst​

commissioned East Lancashire Regiment 1939​

4 Commando 1940​

later 2-in-command 4 Commando​

postwar​

British Military Mission,Greece​

seconded Sudan Army​

awarded D.S.O. Aden 1956​

Director,S.H. MacKinnon (knitwear manufacturers)​

retired 1982​

Captain,(Royal) Troon Golf Club,Ayrshire 1977-79​

President,Army Commando Association 1983-84 and 1993-94​

married Winifred Stewart Williamson 1942 (2 children)​

died April 1998 age 80 ​

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