This plaque is part of Popski's Private Army Memorial
which is located at the Allied Special Forces Memorial Grove at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas Staffordshire
POPSKIS PRIVATE ARMY
No.1 Demolition Squadron Memorial
Compiled with additional information by kind permission of the
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
ROLL of HONOUR
CAMERON John Ewen of Rannoch Station,Corporal, Lovat Scouts, 2 Commando Blitz Patrol PPA,
2nd March 1910 21st June 1944 aged 34 (Cpl 41258, son of Donald and Catherine Cameron, of Rannoch Station, Perthshire. Buried at Ancona War Cemetery, Italy)
CROGHAN Thomas John, of Chester, Trooper 3rd Hussars, R Patrol, PPA, 18th April 1921-10th November 1944 age 23 (Trp 7904917, son of Hugh and Margaret of Boughton, Chester. Buried at Ravenna War Cemetery, Italy)
CURTIS Charles Herbert of Oxford, Sergeant Corps of Royal Engineers Blitz Patrol PPA 8th October 1919-9th September 1944 age 24 (Sgt 1894174, Son of Herbert and Mabel Curtis, of Oxford; husband of Cecily Eunice Ellen Attee Curtis, of Oxford, buried at Montecchio War Cemetery, Italy)
GASKELL William Sylvester of Wigan, Driver Royal Army Service Corps HQ PPA, 17th December 1916-10th September 1943 age 26 (Dvr T/129275, Commemorated on the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, England)
HUNTER John of Glasgow, Private Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, Special Air Service, B Patrol PPA, 18th November 1920-31st January 1944 age 23 (Pte 2992997, 8th Battalion, commemorated on the Cassino Memorial, Italy)
MacDOWALL Richard of Edinburgh, Sapper Corps of Royal Engineers, B Patrol PPA, 9th December 1920-23rd April 1945 age 24 (Spr 2067623, son of John & Margaret of Edinburgh. Buried at Argenta Gap War Cemetery, Italy)
MacGILLIVRAY Duncan Baxter, of Paddington, Lieutenant 1st Derbyshire Yeomanry HQ PPA, 31st July 1911-10th September 1943 age 32 ( Lt 217958, Royal Armoured Corps, son of John William & Elizabeth Grace. Commemorated on the Cassino Memorial, Italy)
McCALLUM Ian Wallace of Buenos Aires, Lieutenant, 27th Lancers, B Patrol, PPA, 26th June 1923-23rd April 1945 age 21 (Lt 299739, Son of William Alexander McCallum and Gwendoline L'Estrange Wallace McCallum, of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Buried at Argenta Gap War Cemetery, Italy)
PORTER David, D.C.M. of St Helens Sergeant Corps of Royal Engineers, Special Air Service, R Patrol, PPA. 26th December 1922-10th November 1944 aged 21 (Sgt 2156419, son of Robert & Julia of St Helens, Lancashire. Buried at Ravenna War Cemetery, Italy. The CWGC have his age as 19)
ROGERS Arthur of Cheshunt, Trooper, 56th Regiment Reconnaissance Corps, B Patrol PPA, 2nd January 1921-29th April 1945 age 24 ( Tpr 6467453 Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Rogers; husband of Gladys Hazel Rogers, of Newchapel, Lingfield, Surrey. Buried at Padua War Cemetery, Italy)
SNAPE James of Chorley, Corporal, 50th Royal Tank Regiment, Blitz Patrol, PPA, 19th June 1910-23rd May 1945 age 34 ( Cpl 3536135, son of William & Sarah Ann of Chorley Lancashire. Buried at Klagenfurt War Cemetery, Austria)
WHITE Albert of Hockley Heath, Private, Oxford & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, S Patrol, PPA, 2nd February 1914-10th May 1945 age 31 (Pte 5381327, attached to the Royal Engineers, buried at Udine War Cemetery, Italy)
