| Unit or location | Role | Posted from | until |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tottington Manor, Small Dole, West Sussex | Intelligence Officer | 01 Oct 1941 | 21 Aug 1942 |
| Sussex | Intelligence Officer | 01 Oct 1941 | 21 Aug 1942 |
| Operations Archway & Howard | SAS combatant | 16 Mar 1945 | 10 Apr 1944 |
| Operations Archway & Howard | SAS combatant | 16 Mar 1945 | 10 Apr 1944 |
Educated at Harrow 1925-1930
1932 Small Arms School, Hythe, Kent
Royal Military College Sandhurst
Commissioned Wiltshire Regiment 28 Jan 1932
Lieutenant 28 Jan 1935
Relinquished commission 7 March 1937
Regular Army Reserve of Officers 21 April 1937
Mobilised 24 Aug 1938
2 Battalion Wiltshire Regiment (D Company) 1939
Intelligence Officer, Sussex, Auxiliary Units 1941
General Staff Officer Grade 2(Ops) Auxiliary Units, Coleshill House 1942
1 SAS Jan 1944- April 1945
Operation Howard - killed by sniper near Borgerwald, Germany. Buried Sage War Cemetery.
Former Auxiliary Units man, Jack Blandford’s personal written account of the action refers to ex Auxilier Major ‘Dickie’ Bond.
… On 6th April we were on the way back to Germany for the big push to Oldenburg. Our jeeps had all been serviced and modified with extra fittings to carry our kit.
We were well back into Germany by the 10th April with ‘C’ Squadron and ‘B’ Troop of ‘B’ Squadron operating together, under the command of Major D. Bond. We formed into column and
Within the first hour, the leading 3 jeeps were fired on by German snipers from the front windows of a detached house. Sgt.xxx was badly wounded in the legs and all occupants of the 3 jeeps baled out into a dyke on the left hand side of the road.
A message was passed down to the O.C. Major Bond, who walked up the road with his driver, a Czech-Jew who spoke 5 languages. They crawled into the dyke and both lifted their heads to weigh up the situation. Both were killed – shot in the forehead by a sniper.
His father Major C.G. Bond, The Wiltshire Regt, had been killed serving with 2nd Battalion in France in November 1915.
He married Evelyn Hinchcliff 5th January 1935. Children: Alec Charles Hincliff Bond born 1940, Robin Evelyn Bond born 1942, Colin H Bond born 1944.
A keen golfer and Master of the Stevenstone (North Devon) Hunt, at the time of his death the family were living in Whorridge Farm, Cullompton, Devon.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Hythe Herald 19 Nov 1932 and Western Times 27 April 1945
The Merricks Family