L to R: Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de
Lattre de Tassigny, Captain Henry Carey Druce, Ronnie Biggs, ‘Buster’ Edwards.
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is on attachment to Snapforce
to learn about Combined Operations. Captain Druce is famous for heading into
battle wearing a black silk top hat. He specialises in sneaking through enemy
lines dressed as a French peasant. On one occasion at Deelen, the troop was in a café
awaiting the arrival of the Canadians before liberating the airport when a
German motorcyclist arrived. In his saddle-bags was a ham that he had stolen
from Arnhem. Druce, still in his top hat, ordered the man to get off his bike
and, when he did not respond, seized the ham and knocked him off the machine
with it. Biggs was born in Stockwell, Lambeth, London. Facing a dishonourable
discharge for desertion he volunteered for the Commandos. His old school friend
‘Buster’ Edwards was born in Lambeth, the son of a barman. After leaving
school, he worked in a sausage factory, before joining the Commandos.
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