| Entry Text: | PURDON, Corran. List the Bugle: Reminiscences of an Irish Soldier. x, 377p., illus., index. Antrim: Greystone, 1993. ISBN: 1870157192.
From an Irish army family, he seemed destined for the Royal Ulster Rifles and went to Sandhurst in July 1939. After passing out he soon volunteered for special service and joined 12 Commando. They took part in the Lofotens raid then the St Nazaire raid, with Purdon actually on Campbeltown. He was wounded and captured and spent the rest of the war as a POW, latterly in Colditz. He went on to an active and successful military career. An engaging autobiography. |
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