VI COMMANDO

TSM (WOC2) Albert Edgar ‘Badge’ Blunden, formerly of the Royal Artillery, served with No.5 Troop and then No.2 Troop of No.6 Commando from, at least, 2^nd December 1941.

He was noted as having suffered injuries - including a small wound over the left scapula - following the grenade accident aboard HMS Prince Charles on 9^th December 1941 during the Operation Kitbag preparations for the raid on Florø (Norway). 

He is noted as having served in No.5 Troop of No.6 Commando.

TSM. Blunden was a keen amateur boxer and competed on the Commando boxing team as a Middle Weight.

TSM. Albert Blunden was serving with No.2 Troop of No. 6 Commando from, at least, May 1944. He was reported as being severely wounded in the stomach on 10^th June 1944 and as dying from his wounds on 11^th June 1944 aged 23 years. 

He left a widow, Alice Norah May Blunden of Shepherds Bush, and I laid to rest in Ranville War Cemetry (France) Grave IA.B.14.

The inscription on his headstone reads:

‘Brave, strong and true.  He gave to the full. We will remember him.’