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The Last of the Cockleshell Heroes: A World War Two Memoir
By William Sparks, Michael Munn
SOE in the Low Countries
By M.R.D. Foot
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 39886" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Williams </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Robert Hugh</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1 Marine Parachute Bn (Commanding Officer) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Major </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>0-4469 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Navy Cross </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Gavutu,Solomon Islands 1942 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born Arbor Vitae,Wisconsin</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commissioned USMC 1929 (2Lt)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>2 Marine Parachute Bn (Company A) (Captain) 1.5.1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1 Marine Parachute Bn (C.O.) 1942 (Major)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>WIA 7.8.1942 Gavutu</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1 Marine Parachute Regiment (C.O.) 1.4.1943 - 29.2.1944 (LtColonel)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>28th Marine Regiment (XO) 1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>served Iwo Jima</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>3rd Marine Regiment (C.O.) (Colonel) 1953-54</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>retired as Brigadier General </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 15.02.1983, Wales, Wisconsin, USA</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/r-williams.11378/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/11/11378-b61e0f922310aefbea8b43ed83991d5f.jpg?1591390076" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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