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Were any of your friends killed or wounded either during the landing or during the day?
yes Just before 8 the unuit was 450 strong our first count after setting ashore only produced 220 fit men

Do you remember any conversations you had with them before they became casualties?
not particularly

Were you wounded? No
How were you wounded?

Do you remember what it was like — that is, do you remember whether you
felt any pain or were you so surprised that you felt nothing?

Do you remember seeing or hearing anything that seems funny now, even though
it may not have seemed amusing at the time? Or anything unexpected or out- of-place?
3 personal thing a) I as adjutant was in charge of the troops of Cdo HQ occupying the whole of our craft (an LCI (s) ) the troops as we ran into land were mustered behind the superstructure reasonably sheltered from enemy fire I walked about on the foredeck to set an example - contd on spare sheet

Do you recall any incident, sad or heroic, or simply memorable, that struck
you more than anything else?
1. We went rapidly up the beach to the dunes leaving many wounded on the beach Some tanks landing behind us had their turrets closed + were not manoeuvering well they ran over many of our wounded + infuriated us to the extent that I went back on the beach + exploded a grenade on one tank in order to make the crew open up so that this horror could be stopped
2. An officer shot through the thighs went into the sea + rescued another from drowning I went on to the beach + pulled them P.T.Q