Warrant Officer's and Sergeant's Mess, 13th Parachute Battalion, February 1945. Note that not all are present as some men were on leave and others recovering from wounds obtained in the Ardennes. Click here for a full-size (430kb) photograph. Copyright: George Butler.

 

Back row (including all those standing behind the fourth row): Unknown, Sgt Clifford Weaver, Unknown, Sergeant Holland, Unknown, Sergeants Edmundson, Clarke, Cahill, Farrell, Brimmicombe, Webb, Roberts, Pritchard, Unknown, and Badel.

 

Fourth row (not including those standing behind but in front of the back row): Sergeants Unwin, Sullivan, Norman Ferdinand (note: originally recorded as Ferguson on the photograph), Scott (RAMO), Stubbs, J. Smith, Unknown, Ernest O'Brien, Copie, Hewitt, Snow (ACE), S. Muir, Webster (REME), Innes (APTE), Unknown, Sergeant Alex Runacres (No.5 Platoon), and Lewis.

 

Third row (all those standing behind and between the shoulders of the second row): Sergeants Braddock, Railton, Hobday, Brady, Eggleton, Boys, T. Smith, Cox, Higgins, Hilton, Russell, and Neat.

 

Second row (not including those standing just behind in the third row): Sergeants Butler, Hornsby and Thomas English, C/Sgt Wrigley, S/Sgt Cookson, C/Sgt Watkins, possibly Sgt Ford, C/Sgt Meechin, Sgts Jones (APTE), McPhail (REME), Morris, and Tickell.

 

Front row (left to right): Sergeant Chadwick, CSM Batho MM, CSM Dugdale, RSM Duxbury, Lieutenant-Colonel Luard, Captain Millman (Adjutant), CSM Moreland, CSMI Parrish (APTE), and CSM Lawley.