RMBPD Hasler, Herbert George (Blondie)

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Hasler ​

• FORENAME

Herbert George (Blondie) ​

• UNIT

Royal Marines RMBPD CO (cockle "Catfish") ​

• RANK

Major ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Distinguished Service Order ​

• PLACE

France 1942 (op.Frankton) ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 27.2.1914 Dublin​

father Lieutenant Arthur Thomas Hasler (Royal Army Medical Corps quartermaster)​

mother Annie Georgina (nee Andrews)​

1932 commissioned Royal Marines​

award O.B.E. and Mention in Despatches & Croix de Guerre (Norway 1940) ​

OC Detachment 385 24.4.1944-July 1945​

also OC Small Operations Group,Far East​

died 5.5.1987​

biography "Blondie:a Biography of Lieutenant Colonel H.G.Hasler" (1998) ​

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