Bill Etches

Colonel William Whitson Etches, OBE, MC (15 May 1921 – 12 April 2015) was a senior British Army officer. After having attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and after being commissioned into the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in December 1939,^[2] he served with the commandos during the Second World War, taking part in the raid on St Nazaire for which he won the Military Cross^[3] and was taken as a prisoner of war.^[4][5]

References

1. "No. 43203". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1963. p. 43.
2. "No. 34766". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 January 1940. p. 66.
3. "No. 37162". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 July 1945. p. 3493.
4. Colonel Bill Etches – obituary. The Telegraph, 11 May 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
5. "Colonel Bill Etches". The Times. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 1 May 2021.