My partners great grandfather and great uncle in sas ww2

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Dave Coates 1

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Have been trying to find any thing about Stanley laverick don't have his army number or sqn I know he went right through war as sas . His brother is in roll of honour grainger laverick would appreciate if anyone could shed any light on the brothers thanks dave
 
try contacting these for help in finding out about him. his number is important when trying to find his details so it would be good to see if anyone in your family has anything with it written on, pay book etc. if not try the first contact by phone and tell them you dont have his number and see if there is anything you can do without it. they will require death certificate copy so it may help them narrow the search


http://www.veterans-uk.info/service_records/army.html

http://www.marsandminerva.co.uk/
 
Further to Geronimos' link, the Certificate of Kinship form allows the entry of either the Service number or in the absence of that the date of birth so hope that hekps.
 
Stanley Laverick

Dave Coates 1 said:
Have been trying to find any thing about Stanley laverick don't have his army number or sqn I know he went right through war as sas . His brother is in roll of honour grainger laverick would appreciate if anyone could shed any light on the brothers thanks dave
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You might be interested to know that as I write this I have before me a 12x17cm 1942 photograph of Stan Laverick who is seemingly on Crete and cooking 'al fresco'.

It is intended to put this image up online elsewhere, along with shots of some of his colleagues, and I will repost here with a link when this is done.

Meanwhile there is a small mention of "Stan" Laverick in a now out of print book: He Who Dares, by David Sutherland, published 1998 by Leo Cooper an imprint of Pen and Sword, ISBN 0 85052 643 4

Should you somehow manage to get hold of a copy of this book and then look in the index under Laverick you will see him referred to as "John" Laverick, immediately above this you will notice an entry for "Stanley" Lavarett, this is this is how it appears in the text of the book, modern indexes are first computer compiled from the text, the author was 78 years old when the volume was published.

It would seem that there has been a slight confusion on the part of David Sutherland as the photograph album that was owned by him and dating from circa the 1950s has a type written caption clearly reading "Stan Laverick".

Sadly David Sutherland died in the 1990's and in a hand written note loose within the album it says that Stan Laverick was a great cook.

It is hoped that this will be of assistance in your quest for further information.
 
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