Brooks, B.J. Mne.

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Wounded 7 June 1944. Jack Brooks served in A Troop and on D-Day his landing craft hit a mine. He managed to swim ashore, about a hundred yards, but had to ditch his kit or he would have drowned. So he was one of the many who began the invasion unarmed. He was wounded while in action in Port en Bessin and sent back to hospital in England via an American Field Hospital. Jack rejoined the unit on Walcheren after his recovery and remained with 47 RM Commando until he was demobbed.