52970 Lieutenant-Colonel Peter LAYCOCK, MC?, Nottinghamshire Yeomanry & Commandos

Peter Laycock : Service number: 52970

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Lieutenant-Col Peter Laycock, TD

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Walcheren

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Ten Commando

THE POLISH ARMY IN BRITAIN, 1940-1947
IWM HU128103 : Object description : Captain Władysław Smrokowski, the CO of the 1st Independent Commando Company (6th Troop of the 10th Inter-Allied Commando), celebrating Easter Sunday in Polish custom - by sharing a piece of egg with Major Peter Laycock, the Deputy CO of the 10th Commando, 25 April 1943. Note a Captain of the Home Guard in the background.

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ALLIED ARMIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 1940-45
H31039 : Group photograph of officers of No. 10 Inter-Allied Commando taken at No. 6 Commando HQs near Brighton. Front row: Lieutenant Stanisław Wołoszowski, the Deputy CO of the 6th Troop (1st Polish Independent Commando Company); Captain Peter Mulders of the 2nd Dutch Troop; Captain George Danloy of the 4th Belgian Troop; Captain R. Hauge of the 5th Norwegian Troop, and Captain Philippe Kieffer, the CO of the 1st French Troop. Back row: Captain E. F. Lutyens, the 4th Belgian Troop; Captain J. G. Clarke, Adjutant; Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Lister, the CO of the 10th Commando; Major Peter Laycock, the Deputy CO of the Commando; Captain Bryan Hilton-Jones, the 3rd (X) Troop and Captain C. A. Hodges, Medical Officer.

Ten Commando - has...

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Re. His MC referenced in the London Gazette and his MC Citation in the National Archives, there doesn’t seem to be a way, currently, for the online searches to pick it "out".

It's "there" i.e. it can be seen referred to in his other decorations...





Sources
- https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37961/supplement/2289/data.pdf
- https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/38889/supplement/1924/data.pdf
- https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/38571/supplement/1530/data.pdf
- https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37909/supplement/1315/data.pdf

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E.g. Via "Laycock" between 1943-1944...

Search results: Laycock | The National Archives

Or... Via "Laycock" between 1945-1949...

Search results: Laycock | The National Archives

And 52970...

Search results: 52970 | The National Archives

 

Having looked for further evidence for a Peter Laycock, Military Cross...

It's (perhaps?) not beyond impossible that the compilers of the London Gazette got confused themselves with the three different Laycock siblings...

...and showed an MC for Peter Laycock that wasn't actually "there"...

...we can see below - for example - a 1950's entry where there is "now" no evidence of an MC... so perhaps a simple error in recording is the simplest / Occams razor result... to explain how it can go from "being there" in other references to foreign awards but being absent from entries made during his later career.