| 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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