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The History Of The SAS
By Chris Ryan
Born For War: One SAS Trooper's Extraordinary Account of the Falklands War
By Tony Hoare
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 29974" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Compston </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Sydney </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>R.N. F Commando </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Able Seaman </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>D/JX 169001 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Distinguished Service Medal </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Normandy 1944 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>from Sedgley,Staffordshire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 1919</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>employed,British Federal Welder and Machine Company,Dudley,Worcestershire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>R.N. November 1939</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HMS Drake</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HMS Venomous</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HMS Abdiel</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>RN Beach Commando F 1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>WIA 6.6.1944 Normandy</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>farm worker postwar</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Winifred Brain 1943-44 (died 2009) (2 children)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 17.11.2010</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>see following link</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="http://www.holywellhousepublishing.co.uk/Compston.html" target="_blank">http://www.holywellhousepublishing.co.uk/Compston.html</a> </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/s-compston.11453/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/11/11453-704b24f20a7a4581cb3e36893ede6521.jpg?1591390096" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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