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    galcock posted a comment on the media item John Bingham.
    This man wrote to my mother to tell her my father was going behind the lines in France in 1944.
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    galcock replied to the thread 2 SAS 1943 - 1945.
    Lord John Manners is in the front row of the group photo with his beret pushed back - I taught two of his female relatives.
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    galcock replied to the thread 2 SAS 1943 - 1945.
    I can see my father John Alcock on the front row -third in from the right side - Graham Alcock
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    galcock replied to the thread 2 SAS 1943 - 1945.
    yes exactly that - in my case I was able tonight to link one of my father's oral stories to a mission called PEGASUS 2 in Holland - look...
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    galcock replied to the thread 2 SAS 1943 - 1945.
    These swastikas have been defeated - so do not worry. graham
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    galcock replied to the thread 2 SAS 1943 - 1945.
    You would be on safer ground to request his service record from Army Records at Glasgow - it will take a year for these to come through...
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    galcock posted a comment on the media item David Morrison.
    I have this photograph too - the man on the other side which you do not show is CPL Pete Drake, comment by Graham Alcock
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    galcock posted a comment on the media item Leonard Hector Grant-Taylor (right).
    My father trained under this man in Italy at Taranto in 1943. Hos instruction saved my fathers life in 1944 when he had to enter a room...
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    galcock replied to the thread Lt James Riccomini, 2 Sas.
    My book comes out this August through UK Amazon -title- SAS Operation Pistol- graham
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    galcock replied to the thread Lt James Riccomini, 2 Sas.
    I have written a book on 2SAS Operation Pistol for September 1944 as my father SQMS John Alcock led one group out - C3 group - He later...
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    galcock posted a comment on the media item Fred Rhodes.
    His voice is recorded on a IWM tape for posterity -he talks about his work in the WCIU.
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    galcock replied to the thread SAS Reynolds, Denis Bingham.
    Yes I am in contact with Philippe Get.
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    galcock posted a comment on the media item P. Goddard.
    Was it true that Goddard threw his life away recklessly when he could have stayed under cover.
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    Did you have a sister called Priscilla if so I have met you. Graham Alcock whose father was in 22SAS with yours.
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    Father was out there with 22 SAS - graham
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