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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 29335" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Alcock </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>John </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1 SAS (B Squadron) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Squadron Sergeant Major </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>2657449 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Mention in Despatches,Croix de Guerre,with Silver Star (Fr) </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>parent unit Army Air Corps</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>former Coldstream Guards</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 1918</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>enlisted Coldstream Guards 1937</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>served in 2 SAS,1 SAS and 2 SAS (A Squadron) again 1944 (SQMS + SSM)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>part of the burial party at Moussey</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>RSM 3 Parachute Regiment 1956 (Suez)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Parachute Regiment (TA),Glasgow 1958</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>22 S.A.S. 1959-1966</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 1997</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>John my fathers career, John Alcock, went like this-</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Joined Coldstream Guards at Sheffield 1936</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>with above at Dunkirk 1940 BEF.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Home to 1943 then Egypt North Africa with Guards joins SAS 1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>N.Africa 1944 SAS</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Sicily 1943 then Italy landed at Taranto with SAS 22 team as advnce guard of main landings by paras by boat.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>About this time I have a post card he sent to my mother from an American hospital in Sicily-malaria.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1944 back in UK with SAS to Scotland</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1944 Operation Pistol in Alsace Lorraine SAS</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Home 1944 to 1945 SAS</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>C.M.F 1945 SAS</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Home 1945 SAS</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>France,Norway,Germany 1945 SAS</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Home 1949 Army reserve 21 SAS artist rifles.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Rejoined the Colours Brigade of Guards.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Posted to Jamaica as RSM Guards to organise the trooping of the colour for Churchills visit and later the Queens. He can be seen on a colonial film with Churchill.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Home 1954</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>RSM 3 Para 1956 Cyprus and Suez drop. November the 5th 1956.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Posted to 16th Scottish TA parachute regiment-Farra Hockley was his CO here.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Re-joins 22 SAS we live on the base at Hereford -he goes to Fort Bragg America with 22 SAS for training - Aden - Malaya - and Boeneo/Sarawak.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Leaves army in 1965/66 Returns to his routes in Yorkshire.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Worked for the East Riding Education Service and finally retired at the age of 65.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Mentioned in Despatches and Awarded the Croixe de Guerre by General Konige of Paris.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Dad knew the following men and visted them in his old age - Harry Vickers, Jack Paley, Jack Rookes and probably others I don't know of. He knew a man called Reg Waddington from Huddersfield. They are all dead now. What a generation. </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>IMAGES:</strong></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/j-alcock.2564/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/2/2564-a5cb1a08110929da5f9869a5a8100518.jpg?1591383529" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/j-alcock-award-notification.13687/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/13/13687-47731a3b7fe5a643eb151023d4232927.jpg?1591398957" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/j-alcock-right.13788/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/13/13788-2a5cc0ba4beb8f1cbbc4a8cec7e418f4.jpg?1591398984" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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