Decorations and Awards to Members of the Reconnaissance Corps

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  1. Recce_Mitch

    Recce_Mitch Very Senior Member

    Name: Reginald David Boyes
    Rank: Corporal
    Service No: 5389806
    Regiment: 46th Reconnaissance Regiment
    Theatre: Italy
    Award: Military Medal
    London Gazette: 10 May 1945
    Reference: WO 373/11

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  2. Recce_Mitch

    Recce_Mitch Very Senior Member

    Name: Eric Daniel Bridges
    Rank: Trooper
    Service No: 10600462
    Regiment: 46th Reconnaissance Regiment
    Theatre: Italy
    Award: Military Medal
    London Gazette: 21 December 1944
    Reference: WO 373/9

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  3. Recce_Mitch

    Recce_Mitch Very Senior Member

    Name: John Fairfax Carver
    Rank: Lieutenant
    Service No: 315331
    Regiment: 46th Reconnaissance Regiment
    Theatre: Italy
    Award: Military Cross
    London Gazette: 10 May 1945
    Reference: WO 373/11

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  4. Recce_Mitch

    Recce_Mitch Very Senior Member

    Name: L Cocum
    Rank: Trooper
    Service No: 10600475
    Regiment: 46th Reconnaissance Regiment
    Theatre: Italy
    Award: Mention in Despatches
    London Gazette: 15th June 1944
    Reference: WO 373/95

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  5. Recce_Mitch

    Recce_Mitch Very Senior Member

    Name: Percy William Fellows
    Rank: Corporal
    Service No: 14201750
    Regiment: 46th Reconnaissance Regiment
    Theatre: North Africa (Algeria, Tunisia)
    Award: Military Medal
    London Gazette: 15th June 1943
    Reference: WO 373/1

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  6. Recce_Mitch

    Recce_Mitch Very Senior Member

    Name: Frank Dewdney
    Rank: Trooper
    Service No: 6472584
    Regiment: 46th Reconnaissance Regiment
    Theatre: Italy
    Award: Military Medal
    London Gazette: 13 December 1945
    Reference: WO 373/14

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  7. Recce_Mitch

    Recce_Mitch Very Senior Member

    Name: A, Frost
    Rank: Trooper
    Service No: 6473375
    Regiment: 46th Reconnaissance Regiment
    Theatre : Foreign to British: France
    Award: Croix de Guerre
    Reference: WO 373/186

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  8. Recce_Mitch

    Recce_Mitch Very Senior Member

    Name:John Higgens
    Rank: Trooper
    Service No: 6473235
    Regiment: 46th Reconnaissance Regiment
    Theatre: North Africa (Algeria, Tunisia)
    Award: Military Medal
    London Gazette: 22 April 1943
    Reference: WO 373/1

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  9. Recce_Mitch

    Recce_Mitch Very Senior Member

    Name: John Langham
    Rank: Temporary Major
    Service No: 130813
    Regiment: 46th Reconnaissance Regiment
    Theatre: Italy
    Award: Distinguished Service Order
    London Gazette: 28 June 1945
    Reference: WO 373/12

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  10. Recce_Mitch

    Recce_Mitch Very Senior Member

    Name: Charles Mansfield
    Rank: Trooper
    Service No: 10600864
    Regiment: 46th Reconnaissance Regiment
    Theatre: Italy
    Award: Military Medal
    London Gazette: 13 January 1944
    Reference: WO 373/4

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  11. Recce_Mitch

    Recce_Mitch Very Senior Member

    Name: Peter Herbert Mason
    Rank: Temporary Captain
    Service No: 56410
    Regiment: 46th Reconnaissance Regiment
    Theatre: Italy
    Award: Military Cross
    London Gazette: 21 December 1944
    Reference: WO 373/9
     

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  12. Recce_Mitch

    Recce_Mitch Very Senior Member

    Name: Adam Kennedy McLean
    Rank: Corporal
    Service No: 10602763
    Regiment: 46th Reconnaissance Regiment
    Theatre: Italy
    Award: Distinguished Conduct Medal
    London Gazette: 08 February 1945
    Reference: WO 373/9

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  13. Oggie2620

    Oggie2620 Senior Member

    Blooming eck Mitch you have been working hard! Fab info for anyone researching those people...
    Dee
     
  14. Recce_Mitch

    Recce_Mitch Very Senior Member

    Still heaps more to go, I'm doing this in between collecting my Recce Headstone photos.

    Cheers
    Paul
     
  15. Recce_Mitch

    Recce_Mitch Very Senior Member

    Name: Denis Neill
    Rank: Captain, Temporary Major
    Service No: 67380
    Regiment: 46th Reconnaissance Regiment
    Theatre: Italy
    Award: Military Cross
    London Gazette: 13 January 1944

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  16. Recce_Mitch

    Recce_Mitch Very Senior Member

    Name: Peter John Weston Perks
    Rank: Lieutenant
    Service No: 240095
    Regiment: 46th Reconnaissance Corps
    Theatre: North Africa (Algeria, Tunisia)
    Award: Military Cross
    London Gazette: 15th June 1943
    Reference: WO 373/1



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  17. Recce_Mitch

    Recce_Mitch Very Senior Member

    Name: Harry Haptopp Plackett
    Rank: Lieutenant

    Service No: 210364
    Regiment: 46th Reconnaissance Regiment
    Theatre: Italy
    Award: Military Cross
    London Gazette: 13 January 1944
    Reference: WO 373/4
     

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  18. Recce_Mitch

    Recce_Mitch Very Senior Member

    Name: John Harvey Preen
    Rank: Temporary Major
    Service No: 138741
    Regiment: 46th Reconnaissance Regiment
    Theatre: Italy
    Award: Order of the British Empire
    London Gazette: 21 December 1944
    Reference: WO 373/72

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  19. Recce_Mitch

    Recce_Mitch Very Senior Member

    Name: Philip Purcell
    Rank: Lieutenant
    Service No: 315334
    Regiment: 46th Reconnaissance Regiment
    Theatre: Italy
    Award: Military Cross
    London Gazette: 26 April 1945
    Reference: WO 373/11

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  20. Recce_Mitch

    Recce_Mitch Very Senior Member

    Name: Charles Richard Spencer
    Rank: Temporary Major; Temporary Lieutenant Colonel
    Service No: 49923
    Regiment: 44th Reconnaissance Regiment
    Theatre : Italy
    Award: Order of the British Empire
    London Gazette: 13 December 1945
    Reference: WO 373/74
     

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