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✭✭✭ Captain Colin McVean Gubbins MC.
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Captain Colin McVean Gubbins MC. 126th Battery, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 11 February 1976. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Gubbins
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Unsung hero indeed, never seen a photo of him this young.
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Amen to that ... a man of many talents and great conviction. The Trappes-Lomax incident in Norway is said to have finished his 'field' deployments, but what an imaginative man he was. 'Gubbins and SOE' by Peter Wilkinson and Joan Bright Astley is arguably a worthy addition to any military library on World War Two. Gubbins had many talents regarding 'irregular warfare' as well as being a leading light in SOE.
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Captain J M M Gubbins, 5th Camerons
Sadly Major General Gubbins son was killed in action at Anzio on on 6th February 1944
Major Malcolm Munthe, Gordons and SOE, was sharing a slit trench when they were "stonked", and he wrote something of it. http://ww2today.com/6-february-1944-...zio-bridgehead Captain Gubbins body was not recovered after the war, and his name is on the CWGC memorial to the missing of southern Italy, situated at Cassino: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/ca...CHAEL%20MCVEAN
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