1st Battalion Worcestershire Regiment - North West Europe 1944
VERNON - The River Seine Crossing (25th to 28th August 1944) - Part 10
List of Officers 1st Battalion Worcestershire Regiment and NCO’s at Vernon
H.Q.Lieut.-Colonel Robert Edward Osborne-Smith (41242) – Battalion C.O. (Northamps) Major Anthony Alistair Benn (44813) – 2nd-in-Command (7th E. Yorks) Captain Walter Lewin Leadbeater (226583) – Adjutant Captain Robert Duff-Chalmers (263476) – Medical Officer (R.A.M.C.) Lieut. Roy Humphreys (293201) – Intelligence Officer Captain William Speirs (248378) - Padre |
Captain W. L. Leadbeater |
HQ CompanyCaptain A. M. Ford (71459) – Company C.O. (K.S.L.I.) Lieut. James Edward Benny (274174) – Quartermaster (Welch R.) Captain Nelson Victor Jones (124746) – Transport Officer Captain Peter E. Gray – Signals Officer (from the 9th Sept. 1944) Sergeant James Thomas “Jim” Norton (5254043) – Signals Sergeant Company Sergeant Major A. Hawkeswood (5254334) R.Q.M.S. J. Sanders |
Capt. N. V. Jones |
'A' CompanyMajor Malcolm Alfred Gibbins (145429) – Company C.O. Captain Keith Robert Henshaw James (182248) - 2nd-in-Command Company Sergeant Major W. Hutchins Lieut. John Edward Oliver Davies (CDN 548) – 7 Platoon Commander Lieut. Frederick Stanthorpe Trimnell (251272) – 8 Platoon Commander 2nd Lieut. William Francis Jennings (338180) – 9 Platoon Commander C.Q.M.S. William Stringer (5258444) |
Captain K. R. H. James |
'B' CompanyMajor Alfred Albert (Algy) Grubb (121454) – Company C.O. (R. Hamps.) Captain Noel Watkins (174313) - 2nd-in-Command – 10 Platoon Commander Sergeant Frank Nyland ( ) – 11 Platoon Commander 2/Lieut. Reginald Neil Fellows (315209) – 12 Platoon Commander Sergeant David Hugh Kerrigan (5250370) – 12 Platoon C.Q.M.S. G. Walton |
Major A. A. Grubb |
'C' CompanyMajor Sidney Karl (Jerry) Clover (39720) – Company Commander A/Major (Captain) Donald Yewdall “Doc” Watson (134310) Captain Roger Arthur William Miller (112886) - 2nd-in-Command Company Sergeant Major William James John (Jimmy) Lane (5252560) Sergeant P. Saunders – 13 Platoon Commander Sergeant H. C. Harrison (5258274) – 14 Platoon Commander Lieut. Henri Paul Fiset (CDN 338) – 15 Platoon Commander Sergeant Miles – 15 Platoon C.Q.M.S. R. Pawling (5249734) |
CSM J. Lane |
'D' CompanyMajor Mowbray Morris Souper (134308) – Company Commander Capt. Bryan Norman Rawnsley Elder (130065) - 2nd-in-Command (temporary in command as Major Souper was sick) Sergeant S. Potter (5258380) – 17 Platoon Lieut. W. G. Hunt (CDN 163) – 18 Platoon Commander |
Major M.M. Souper |
Support CompanyCapt. Harold Redmore Hodge (132193) - Company Commander (Essex R.) Capt. John Wilson (Jock) Bannister (174308)– Mortar Platoon Commander Lieut. R. Brown ( ) – Carrier Platoon Commander Sergeant J. Geobey – Carrier Platoon Lieut. Frederick Thomas Coulcher (240285) – Anti-Tank Platoon Commander Sergeant John Isaac Guest (5258245) – Anti-Tank Platoon Lieut. John Patrick Allum (299664) – Pioneer Platoon Commander (E. Surrey R.) Sergeant W. Priest – Pioneer Platoon C.Q.M.S. C. Buss |
Captain H. R. Hodge |
214 Brigade Tac. H.Q.Lt. Henry Herbert Humphrey James (256431) – Worc. Regt. Liaison Officer Lt. Denys Charles “Benny” Goodman (308462) – Worc. Regt. Liaison Off. |
Lieut. D. C. Goodman |
Others Company Sergeant Major S. Street Company Sergeant Major W. Medcroft (wounded 27th August 1944) Company Sergeant Major L. A. Crossingham
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CSM L. A. Crossingham |