- SURNAME
Feebery
- FORENAME
Cyril
- UNIT
Special Boat Squadron (L Detachment) + 1 SAS (HQ Squadron)
- RANK
Warrant Officer Second Class
- NUMBER
2615284
- AWARD
Distinguished Conduct Medal,Mention in Despatches
- PLACE
Sardinia 1943 (DCM) France 1944 (MiD)
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 1919 South London
resided Enmore Road,South Norwood,London
Grenadier Guards 20.5.1937
3 Bn Grenadier Guards October 1937
WIA May 1940 France (Guardsman)
4th Independent Company,Grenadier Guards 1940
8 Commando (2 Troop) 1940-41 (Gdsman-Cpl)
B Bn Layforce 1941 (Cpl)
1 SBS 1941-42 (Cpl)
1 SBS attached L Detachment SAS 1942 (Sgt)
1 SAS (D Squadron) 1942-43 (Sgt)
Special Boat Squadron (L Detachment) 1943-44 (WOII)
POW 17.7.1943 Sardinia
escaped 14.9.1943
returned to UK 8.2.1944
sick with malaria
transferred to Army Air Corps
1 SAS (SSM,HQ Squadron) 1944 (WOII)
1 SAS (RSM) 1945 A/WOI
antique dealer postwar
memoirs "Guardsman and Commando:The War Memoirs of RSM Cyril Feebery,DCM"
as told to David Feebery (2008)
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