3 Commando Brigade
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Long Range Desert Group
By W.B.Kennedy Shaw
Robert Tong
John Robertson

Robert Tong

Robert Cecil Tong (Bob)
born 1.7.1923 Clun,Shropshire
educated Adams Grammar School (now Newport Grammar) 1933-37
apprentice electrical engineer (qualified 1941)
70 (Young Soldier) Bn Royal Warwickshire Regiment 29.1.1942 -1943
Royal Warwickshire Regiment
2 SAS (B Squadron) May 1943 - March 1944
9 Bn Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment March 1944-45
married Ruth February 1945 (died 2012) (1 son Rodney - died 2002)
died October 2014
funeral in Wolverhampton
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