The Lion and Dragon – Cumbria museum of Military life – Trials of the colonel
Colonel Tommy Haddon was a career soldier, from a military family. He was appointed to command 1 Border whilst they were rebuilding in North Africa after ‘Operation Ladbroke’ had seen most of the battalion’s gliders dropped into the sea off Sicily in 1943.
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