Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Royal Marines, H.M.S. Copra.
Son of John William and Gladys Dora Adcock, of Dinnington, Yorkshire.
H.M.S. "Copra" was a shore base in Scotland and is an abbreviation of "Combined Operations pay, ratings and accounts". Crews who served on LCTs in Combined Ops. had this on their pay books, service records and, if killed, their grave stones. LCTs had no names only numbers, details of which were not placed on records, etc.
Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Royal Marines, H.M.S. Copra.
Son of John William and Gladys Dora Adcock, of Dinnington, Yorkshire.
H.M.S. "Copra" was a shore base in Scotland and is an abbreviation of "Combined Operations pay, ratings and accounts". Crews who served on LCTs in Combined Ops. had this on their pay books, service records and, if killed, their grave stones. LCTs had no names only numbers, details of which were not placed on records, etc.
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