COPP HEROES
Combined Operations Pilotage Parties
Memorial Fund
COPP Heroes of Hayling Island
HRH Prince of Wales Patron.
COPP 4
Peter Palmer (see below) has advised us that those in COPP 3 when in Algiers and Malta from 6 January 1943 to 31 July 1943 were:
Hallet, P, S/A
Harris, P J, A/B
Hinkley, J, Spr
Magnall, R B, Lt, RNVR
McHarg, N T, Ltd, DSO, RN
Sinclair, G S, Lt, DSO, RN
Palmer, P F, EM
Parsons, Captain, RE
Reilly, J, L/S
Rice, N E C, Captain, RE
Accompanied by:
Cannings, H E, S/Mkr
Spence, W, S/Wright
both of whom were based at Cap Matafou and returned to Hayling Island to become HQ staff when COPP 4 moved to Malta.
COPP 3 were moved from Algiers to Malta for the Sicily Beach reconnaissances. They lost so many personnel that COPP 4 (who operated from Algiers and Cap Matafou) were moved to Malta and the two parties amalgamated.
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Back Row Peter Palmer
Peter Palmer on the right.Can you help identify anyone else please?
Burke, Terence
Terence MartinLieutenant
Mentioned in Dispatches
Mackay, Denis
Denis HandcockLieutenant
Distinguished Service Cross
Mangnall, Rollo
Rollo B Lieutenant, RNVR DSC on the right with Peter Wild COPP 1Main, Carruth
Petty OfficerDistinguished Service Medal
McHarg, Neville
Neville TownleyLieutenant
Distinguished Service Order
Palmer, Peter F
Electrical MechanicServed in COPP 4 while the Party was in Algiers and Malta from January to July 1943, and then returned to COPP Dept. Joined COPP 6 in December 1943 and remained with that Party until it was disbanded in October 1945.
Palmer, Peter F
Electrical MechanicServed in COPP 4 while the Party was in Algiers and Malta from January to July 1943, and then returned to COPP Dept. Joined COPP 6 in December 1943 and remained with that Party until it was disbanded in October 1945.
Reilly, Thomas
A/Petty OfficerDistinguished Service Medal
Sinclair, George
George SutherlandLieutenant
Distinguished Service Order
