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M.N.B.D.O.2

Charles Arthur Aykroyd was promoted a temporary Lt. on 22 September 1941 in the Portsmouth Division. March 1944 he went to HMS Odyssey and was assigned to Naval Party 1502A, which was given the task to get the harbour of Port-en-Bessin operational after its liberation and to prepare the port for the PLUTO pipelines. In October 1944 he went to the Royal Marines Training Group in Devon and on 26 November back to HMS Odyssey for Naval Party 2400. He moved on to HMS Landswell which was a Mobile Landing Craft Advanced Base 1, Cochin. Then November 1945 he returned to the Portsmouth Division.