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Name | Date | Description | More Info |
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Hegemony | |||
Grandfather | 25-27 August 1944 | To cause casualties and damage to enemy dispositions in and around PUPNAT (KORCULA) and to provide AA defence for own gun positions and for LCIs. Force consisted of 476 Fd Bty, 11 Tp RSR, B Coy 2HLI, 2825 Fd Sqn RAF and AA dets sailed from VIS | |
Decomposed II | 31 July - 2 August 1944 | "C" Battery R.S.R. as Light Anti Aircraft support to 24 pdr Bty Royal Artillery whose task was to shell enemy positions at OREBIC KORCULA Town and POSTRAIYA and silence coastal guns at OBERIC | |
Grandfather II | |||
Flounced II | |||
Geography | 12-13 September 1944 | Reconnaissance operations ahead of the major operation APLOMB | |
Aplomb | 16 September - 10 October 1944 | Operation TARANTO to KITHERA involving FOXFORCE, comprising 9 Commando, 7 Tp. RSR, 10 Tp. RSR, 12 Tp. RSR, a detachment of S.B.S. and a detachment of L.R.D.G. | |
Appleblossom | |||
Brac | 1-5 June 1944 | ||
Detained III | 17 September 1944 | 3 x.50 Brownings (Capt Bocquet) and 2 x 4.2 Mortars sent to support 43 RM Commando attack on island garrison on Solta, Dalmation Islands, formerly part of Yugoslavia | |
Mercerised | 22 September - 17 October 1944 | Op involving RSR, 40 RM Cdo, 2 Cdo, 2 SS Bde Staff, to harrass enemy communications and transit areas, to support attack designed to capture SARANDE, to cut communications with Island of KERKYRA (CORFU) | |
Noah's Ark | September 1944 | ||
Brac III | 11-18 September 1944 | 43 Marine Cdo and our troop to land at LUCICA bay in an attempt to damage or prevent the movement of enemy troops evacuating from BRAC | |
Manna | 13-15 October 1944 | Operation POROS to ATHENS involving COMMANDFORCE, comprising 9 Commando, 7 Tp. RSR, 10 Tp. RSR, 12 Tp RSR, a detachment of S.B.S. and a detachment of L.R.D.G. | |
Scrumhalf | 30 October - 23 November 1944 | Operation PIRAEUS to SALONIKA involving SCRUMFORCE, comprising 9 Commando, 7 Tp. RSR, 10 Tp. RSR, 12 Tp RSR, a detachment of S.B.S., a detachment of L.R.D.G. and a detachment of R.E.s | |
Flounced | 31 May - 5 June 1944 | A night raid on the enemy held island of BRAC involving Commando Units of 2 SSB primarily from 40 and 43 RM Cdos, and 2 SSB HQ, supported by RSR men with 2 captured Italian 47mm anti-tank guns | |
Belvedere | 3 - 10 April 1945 | Stickforce, 11 Tp. RSR and One Flight 2771 Fd. Sqn. RAF Regt, to support attack on PAG Island with objective of desroying all enemy positions and holding the island. RAF Regt Flight to provide local protection for RSR gun positions and OP parties | |
Roast | 25 March - 30 April 1945 | An attack across Lake Comacchio to capture the spit of land between Lake Comacchio and the Adriatic Sea, from the River Reno to the Valetta canal, approx 7 miles. | |
Impact Royal | 12 - 15 April 1945 | A follow up to Operation Roast, at the Fessina Canal East of Argenta. | |
Brac II | 6 June 1944 | ||
Miljet | 21-22 May 1944 | ||
Healing II | 28 - 29 July 1944 | Designed to re-open the coastline around Himara so that supplies could be delivered to the Albanian Partisans. The attacking force was over 700 strong, consisting of 2 Cdo, 9 Cdo, 40 (RM) Cdo, 180 men of the RSR, HLI, Force 266 and partisans |