SAS Allott, Richard Knowles Brian (Tramp)

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  • SURNAME
Allott
  • FORENAME
Richard Knowles Brian (Tramp)
  • UNIT
1 S.B.S. attached L Detachment SAS
  • RANK
Lieutenant
  • NUMBER
77673
  • AWARD
Military Cross
  • PLACE
Middle East 1942
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Middlesex Regiment
born 08.08.1918 Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
POW Op.Bigamy September 1942
married Patricia Pound 1952 Cuckfield,Sussex
post war received Mention in Despatches for service in Cyprus, 1957 (London Gazette 41304, 4th February 1958, Page 840)
21.04.1960 retired as Major (London Gazette 42014, 19th April 1960, Page 2870)
resided Cannon Street, Lymington, Hampshire
died 05.10.1995
London Gazette 35771, 3rd November 1942, Page 4795 (MC)
 

CITATION:

Military Cross : This Officer in co-operation with Lieutenant Ritchie, R.N. carried out an important reconnaissance of a beach in territory occupied by the enemy North of BOMBA between 23rd and 25th May 1942 before the launching of a landing operation.

He landed by folbot from an M.T.B. and was two days ashore with enemy troops in his immediate vicinity. The beach reconnaissance was carried out at night in bad weather, and his wireless having failed, he made the passage of 25 miles back to the British lines at GAZALA in a gale of wind sufficiently high to necessitate the withdrawal of all patrols at TOBRUK, to make his report which was urgently required.

WEB LINKS:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35771/supplement/4795 (MC)
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/41304/supplement/840 (Cyprus)
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/42014/supplement/2870 (Retires)
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7369558
http://www.commandoveterans.org/RichardKnowles8Commando

NATIONAL ARCHIVES:

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7369558
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