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of grenades beside him Scoot didn't feel too good when he saw he had no
weapon. There is a difference, he thought, between shooting close up
and far away. That evening as he laid down fully clothed he remembered
that he was the only one of a small group of five who had sat together
on the deck of the ISI who hadn't been hit - two were dead, the other two
badly wounded.

Two came from Newcastle, Marine Joe Langlands and Geordie Millbura, and
"Yorkie" Richardson from Yorkshire; and Walter Fox from London.

Fox and Richardson got a machine gun burst in the stomach as they came
down the ramp - both were dead.

Langlands, a second sniper, had been hit by mortar on LCI(S) (carry 60)
port side. Millbum was also hit on the landing craft.

On the way over the five of them had spent a lot of time singing their
heads off. "This is one birthday you won’t forget in a hurry", Sniper
told Wally Fox who was considered an old one - he was 30* He was married
with two children and a third expected. He would have been 31 on June 6th
and the troop, all aged around 20 considered him the "Daddy". He used to
call them "you youngsters".
Of the original 60 men in B Troop (composed of 3 officers; 5 sergeants
and 5 corporals that evening there was 1 officer left (2nd Lieutenant A. Rubenstein), no sergeants, 1 corporal and about 20 men.