Surname McCORMACK
Firstname Thomas
Service number 2930404
Date of death
Decoration
Place of birth Wigan
Other On or after 11/04/42. (No 2 Commando).
SNWM roll THE QUEEN'S OWN CAMERON HIGHLANDERS and THE LIVERPOOL SCOTTISH
Rank Pte
Theatre of death France
He was born (~1917) in Wigan, Lancashire, England and lived in Liverpool.
Name: McCORMACK, THOMAS
Initials: T
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Unit Text: 1st (Liverpool Scottish) Bn.
Secondary Regiment: Commando
Secondary Unit Text: and No. 2
Age: 25
Date of Death: 11/04/1942
Service No: 2930404
Additional information: Son of Jeremiah and Joanna Ramsay W. W. P. McCormack, of Allerton, Liverpool.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. 18. Plot 2. Row J. Grave 1.
Cemetery: RENNES EASTERN COMMUNAL CEMETERY
from
http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/allied/commandos.html
No2 Commando.
No. 2 Commando was formed in March 1941 formed from a reorganisation of No. 1 Special Service Battalion. They saw action in Norway in December 1941, Gibraltar in July 43, then in Sicily in August and Italy in September. In January 44 they were in Yugoslavia, returning to Italy in Feburay 1945. On the 24th September 1945 they amalgamated with No. 9 Commando, to form The Army Commando.
The above misses out the most famous op.
The Raid on St. Nazaire the greatest and most desperate of all, was the work of No. 2 Commando and demolition parties from 1,3,4,5,9 and 12 Commandos. The great dry dock, the Forme Ecluse, the only one on the Atlantic seaboard capable of holding the Tirpitz, was put out of action for the rest of the war, and the German battleship was compelled to remain in Norwegian waters until the R.A.F. capsized her near Tromso in September, 1944. In this action Lieut. Colonel A.C. Newman (2 Commando) and Sergeant Durrant (1 Commando) won the Victoria Cross.
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Malcolm