Commando Medic [electronic resource] : Doc Harden VC
Snelling, Stephen2012
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As a pre-war member of the St John Ambulance, he saw service during the 1941-41 Blitz and later volunteered for the Commandos, under-going the same rigorous training as the fighting me before being attached to 45 Royal Marine Commando. he landed with his unit on D-Day and was involved in some of the fiercest fighting of the Normandy campaign. During a bitter battle on the Dutch-German border, Harden, known throughout his unit as Doc, was killed saving the lives of wounded men trapped in no-man's land. Commenting on the posthumous award in a speech to the House of Commons, the Secretary of State for War, the Rt Hon James Grigg was sufficiently moved by his selfless actions to say: "I do not remember ever reading anything more heroic."
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[Place of publication not identified] : The History Press, 2012
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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9780752483795
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English
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1047458
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