Lieutenant Tom Gordon Hemming of Number 1 Commando led a section from 5 Troop for the Operation Chopper raid at Luc St Mer on 28 September 1941. His section came under heavy fire when it tried to land on the beach resulting in a number of wounded and two men dead. When he died in 1992 his ashes were buried next to the graves of his two lost men, whom he never forgot.
Lieutenant Tom Gordon Hemming of Number 1 Commando led a section from 5 Troop for the Operation Chopper raid at Luc St Mer on 28 September 1941. His section came under heavy fire when it tried to land on the beach resulting in a number of wounded and two men dead. When he died in 1992 his ashes were buried next to the graves of his two lost men, whom he never forgot.
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