Headstone Major Gus March-Phillips, St Laurent sur Mer
The grave is in the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery. March-Phillips commanded a Small Scale Landing Force that came ashore here in a Commando operation named Aquatint on 12 September 1942. As the small team landed they came under fire and the engine of the Motor Torpedo Boat (MTB) that had brought them was damaged and thus unable to take them off. Monitoring of German radio uncovered the fact that March-Phillips drowned while trying to swim out to the MTB. Sergeant A. Williams and Private R. Leonard were shot by the Germans on 13 September. They too lie in the churchyard
Picture No
12547908
Media ID
45763673
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2089px x 2792px
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Credit
© Holt's Battlefield Collection / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Tonie and Valmai Holt - Holts' Battlefield Collection
Date
2009
