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3 Commando: Helmand Assault
By Ewen Southby-Tailyour
Geoffrey Keyes V.C. Of The Rommel Raid
By Elizabeth Keyes
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 34905" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>McKauge </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Ronald </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>R.A.N.V.R. (O.C. Beach Commandos A and C) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lieutenant Commander </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Distinguished Service Cross </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Borneo 1944 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 22.11.1909 Laidley,Queensland</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>enlisted 7.10.1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HMAS Saunders</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>discharged 17.5.1957 HMAS Moreton</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Ronald McKauge M.B.E., D.S.C., V.R.D.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Number: -</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Rank: Lieutenant Commander</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>D.O.B.: 22nd November 1909, Laidley, Queensland</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Service History</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>13.02.30 ? 31.07.32 Served as a Private in the Militia</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>07.10.40 Enlisted HMAS Brisbane as an Acting Sub Lieutenant RANVR</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>21.10.40 Posted to HMAS Cerberus</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>04.11.40 Posted to HMAS Brisbane</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>13.11.40 Passage to United Kingdon per ?Themistaeles? and posted to London Depot</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>06.01.41 Promoted to Lieutenant</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>04.02.41 Posted to HMS King Alfred for training</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>18.03.41 Posted to HMS Quebec ? Combined Training Centre</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>07.01.42 Posted to HMS Saunders for Landing Craft Duties</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>26.03.42 Given command of Lighter 101</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>31.08.42 Awarded Restricted Watch Keeping Certificate for Tank Landing</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Craft only</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Sept. 1942 Involved in the Tobruk Raid ? Operation Agreement</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>01.01.43 Promoted to Acting Lieutenant Commander and posted to London</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Depot. Flotilla Officer of Tank Landing Craft.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>01.04.43 Posted to HMS Saunders</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>14.04.44 Posted to London Depot</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>22.05.44 Returned to Australia and posted to HMAS Moreton</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>08.06.44 Award of the Distinguished Service Cross announced in the</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>London Gazette.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>?For gallantry in the face of the enemy and for outstanding ability,</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>initiative and leadership in HMS Saunders, as Commanding</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Officer, Flotilla Officer and Squadron Officer, LCT from March</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1942. During the advance of the Eighth Army to Tripoli, he did</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>extremely well as Flotilla Officer and it is largely due to him that</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>the LCTs were able to reach Tripoli. The craft worked in ports</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>within a few hours of their capture and often landed supplies for</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>the Army on open beaches in the spring gales. He inspired the</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Commanders of the LCTs to take risks and carry out duties which</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>in normal conditions would have been considered beyond the</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>powers of such worn-out craft. He was one of a selected party</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>which took part in the Tobruk raid with the object of capturing</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>German craft and demolishing enemy installations in the port. He</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>was in charge of the LCT which worked for the CTC at Zaura in</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>July-September , 1943, and again of those working from Palestine</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>to the Aegean in the autumn of 1943. On all occasions he has been</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>a source of great confidence.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>26.09.44 Posted to Kuranda ? Beach Landing Group, Queensland, as</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Officer in Charge and Principal Beachmaster of Naval Beach</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Commando ?A?</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>20.07 to</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>30.07.44 No.1 Aust Corps Command & Staff Course</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>23.03.45 Part of No.1 Australian Beach Group Planning Team which</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>departed Cairns for Townsville by rail.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>24.03.45 Departed Townsville for Hollandia by plane</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>25.03.45 Departed Hollandia for Morotai by plane</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>26.03 to</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>28.03.45 Attended conference held by G.O.C. 9th Australian Division to</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>discuss administration and planning for OBOE operations in</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Borneo.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>20.04.45 Posted to HMAS Madang ? Naval Beach Commando ?A?, Borneo</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>23.04.45 Rejoined RAN Commando in Morotai</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>10.06.45 Principal Beachmaster Labuan Island and Brunei Landings.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Landed on Brown Beach, Victoria Town, Labuan Island in charge</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>of Beach Party No.4.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>16.10.45 Returned to Australia and posted to HMAS Moreton</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>30.11.45 Demobilised</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>01.12.45 Appointed to the rank of Lieutenant RANVR</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>30.06.49 Promoted to Lieutenant Commander</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>09.05.51 Re-entered full time service HMAS Moreton</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>17.06.51 Posted to HMAS Tarangau, Manus Island as Deputy Supervisiong</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Intelligence Officer NEA and Staff Officer (Intelligence) NEA</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>25.11.52 Posted to HMAS Moreton</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>24.10.54 Posted to HMAS Penguin</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>19.11.54 Completed Standard Damage Control Course</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>20.01.55 Posted to HMAS Tarangau, Manus Island as Senior Officer Coast</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Watching Australia Station</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>04.01.56 Posted to HMAS Cootamundra</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>15.01.56 Posted to HMAS Tarangau, Manus Island</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>22.01.56 Posted to HMAS Cootamundra</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>05.03.56 Posted to HMAS Penguin</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>20.04.56 Posted to HMAS Kuttabul as Senior Officer (Intelligence)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>12.05.57 Posted to HMAS Moreton</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>17.05.57 Released from fulltime service and discharged</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1961 Awarded the RAN Volunteer Reserve Decoration (V.R.D.)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>31.12.79 Awarded a Civil Member of the Order of the British Empire for</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>service to Veterans in the 1980 New Years Honours List</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/r-mckauge.12005/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/12/12005-73fe078aebbf8705127a799fca86bc32.jpg?1591398481" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Robertson, post: 34905, member: 1"] [LIST] [*][B]SURNAME[/B] [/LIST] [INDENT][I]McKauge [/I][/INDENT] [LIST] [*][B]FORENAME[/B] [/LIST] [INDENT][I]Ronald [/I][/INDENT] [LIST] [*][B]UNIT[/B] [/LIST] [INDENT][I]R.A.N.V.R. (O.C. Beach Commandos A and C) [/I][/INDENT] [LIST] [*][B]RANK[/B] [/LIST] [INDENT][I]Lieutenant Commander [/I][/INDENT] [LIST] [*][B]NUMBER[/B] [/LIST] [INDENT][/INDENT] [LIST] [*][B]AWARD[/B] [/LIST] [INDENT][I]Distinguished Service Cross [/I][/INDENT] [LIST] [*][B]PLACE[/B] [/LIST] [INDENT][I]Borneo 1944 [/I][/INDENT] [LIST] [*][B]ADDITIONAL INFORMATION[/B] [/LIST] [INDENT][I]born 22.11.1909 Laidley,Queensland[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]enlisted 7.10.1940[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]HMAS Saunders[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]discharged 17.5.1957 HMAS Moreton[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]Ronald McKauge M.B.E., D.S.C., V.R.D.[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]Number: -[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]Rank: Lieutenant Commander[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]D.O.B.: 22nd November 1909, Laidley, Queensland[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]Service History[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]13.02.30 ? 31.07.32 Served as a Private in the Militia[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]07.10.40 Enlisted HMAS Brisbane as an Acting Sub Lieutenant RANVR[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]21.10.40 Posted to HMAS Cerberus[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]04.11.40 Posted to HMAS Brisbane[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]13.11.40 Passage to United Kingdon per ?Themistaeles? and posted to London Depot[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]06.01.41 Promoted to Lieutenant[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]04.02.41 Posted to HMS King Alfred for training[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]18.03.41 Posted to HMS Quebec ? Combined Training Centre[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]07.01.42 Posted to HMS Saunders for Landing Craft Duties[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]26.03.42 Given command of Lighter 101[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]31.08.42 Awarded Restricted Watch Keeping Certificate for Tank Landing[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]Craft only[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]Sept. 1942 Involved in the Tobruk Raid ? Operation Agreement[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]01.01.43 Promoted to Acting Lieutenant Commander and posted to London[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]Depot. Flotilla Officer of Tank Landing Craft.[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]01.04.43 Posted to HMS Saunders[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]14.04.44 Posted to London Depot[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]22.05.44 Returned to Australia and posted to HMAS Moreton[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]08.06.44 Award of the Distinguished Service Cross announced in the[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]London Gazette.[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]?For gallantry in the face of the enemy and for outstanding ability,[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]initiative and leadership in HMS Saunders, as Commanding[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]Officer, Flotilla Officer and Squadron Officer, LCT from March[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]1942. During the advance of the Eighth Army to Tripoli, he did[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]extremely well as Flotilla Officer and it is largely due to him that[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]the LCTs were able to reach Tripoli. The craft worked in ports[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]within a few hours of their capture and often landed supplies for[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]the Army on open beaches in the spring gales. He inspired the[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]Commanders of the LCTs to take risks and carry out duties which[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]in normal conditions would have been considered beyond the[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]powers of such worn-out craft. He was one of a selected party[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]which took part in the Tobruk raid with the object of capturing[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]German craft and demolishing enemy installations in the port. He[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]was in charge of the LCT which worked for the CTC at Zaura in[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]July-September , 1943, and again of those working from Palestine[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]to the Aegean in the autumn of 1943. On all occasions he has been[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]a source of great confidence.[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]26.09.44 Posted to Kuranda ? Beach Landing Group, Queensland, as[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]Officer in Charge and Principal Beachmaster of Naval Beach[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]Commando ?A?[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]20.07 to[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]30.07.44 No.1 Aust Corps Command & Staff Course[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]23.03.45 Part of No.1 Australian Beach Group Planning Team which[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]departed Cairns for Townsville by rail.[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]24.03.45 Departed Townsville for Hollandia by plane[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]25.03.45 Departed Hollandia for Morotai by plane[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]26.03 to[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]28.03.45 Attended conference held by G.O.C. 9th Australian Division to[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]discuss administration and planning for OBOE operations in[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]Borneo.[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]20.04.45 Posted to HMAS Madang ? Naval Beach Commando ?A?, Borneo[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]23.04.45 Rejoined RAN Commando in Morotai[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]10.06.45 Principal Beachmaster Labuan Island and Brunei Landings.[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]Landed on Brown Beach, Victoria Town, Labuan Island in charge[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]of Beach Party No.4.[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]16.10.45 Returned to Australia and posted to HMAS Moreton[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]30.11.45 Demobilised[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]01.12.45 Appointed to the rank of Lieutenant RANVR[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]30.06.49 Promoted to Lieutenant Commander[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]09.05.51 Re-entered full time service HMAS Moreton[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]17.06.51 Posted to HMAS Tarangau, Manus Island as Deputy Supervisiong[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]Intelligence Officer NEA and Staff Officer (Intelligence) NEA[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]25.11.52 Posted to HMAS Moreton[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]24.10.54 Posted to HMAS Penguin[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]19.11.54 Completed Standard Damage Control Course[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]20.01.55 Posted to HMAS Tarangau, Manus Island as Senior Officer Coast[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]Watching Australia Station[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]04.01.56 Posted to HMAS Cootamundra[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]15.01.56 Posted to HMAS Tarangau, Manus Island[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]22.01.56 Posted to HMAS Cootamundra[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]05.03.56 Posted to HMAS Penguin[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]20.04.56 Posted to HMAS Kuttabul as Senior Officer (Intelligence)[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]12.05.57 Posted to HMAS Moreton[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]17.05.57 Released from fulltime service and discharged[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]1961 Awarded the RAN Volunteer Reserve Decoration (V.R.D.)[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]31.12.79 Awarded a Civil Member of the Order of the British Empire for[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]service to Veterans in the 1980 New Years Honours List[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][URL="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/r-mckauge.12005/"][IMG]http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/12/12005-73fe078aebbf8705127a799fca86bc32.jpg?1591398481[/IMG][/URL][/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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