Coming soon...

1940-1946: John (Jack) Painter, a Chatham Marine. From Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation, then becoming a signaller in the Special Signals Squadron (the forerunner of today's Y Squadron), supporting Bagnold's LRDG - on the brink of transferring to the genesis of the Parachute Regiment!!! (don't go there) - to the foundation of the Commando under Lovat and Laycock. The liberation of North Africa and Europe through year-on-year of continuous fighting from one continent to another. Nowadays we would say "Four One Commando" to him and his mates it was always "Forty One". I've forever struggled to get out of that habit, much to the chagrin of my own oppos!

From his own intriguing journal, which he kept throughout the war, writing from shell holes and bombed-out buildings during lulls in the fighting; the story of one man, my Father, and his oppos... Alternatively titled: "Adolf Hitler: Our Part in His Downfall"- with a nod to the genius Spike Milligan.