Commando Despatch Rider

Raymond Mitchell, already a veteran of Sicily and Salerno, served as a Despatch Rider (DR) with 41 Royal Marines Commando throughout the North-West Europe campaign. Fortunately he considered his position in the military hierarchy as too lowly for the ban on keeping diaries to apply to him. As a result, Commando Despatch Rider is both an accurate and atmospheric record of one man's war seen from an unusual perspective. Use of the Unit's War Diary and contemporary records gives this war story a broader dimension.

Foreword
Glossary
Author's Preface	p. 1
From Rifleman to Despatch Rider	p. 7
UK Trips and Concentration Camps	p. 17
D-Day, Sixth of June 1944	p. 34
In the Normandy Beachhead	p. 50
First weeks east of the Orne	p. 66
Life in the Orne Bridgehead	p. 79
Forward from Troarn	p. 95
Across the Rivers Tougues and Seine	p. 106
Cany-Barville, Le Havre and Dunkirk	p. 114
Into Belgium, Training for Walcheren	p. 124
The Walcheren Landing	p. 137
Return to Holland, and V-weapons	p. 164
The Maas River Front	p. 176
The End of the War and Occupation Duties in Germany	p. 194
From Serviceman to Civilian	p. 222
Index	p. 226
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