South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 21 March 1942
Commando’s Well-Kept Secret.
It can be well understood that our Commandos will be sworn to secrecy as to their activities, but how well this mandate was obeyed by a Conisbrough Commando was revealed to our correspondent In a conversation with Mrs. Hurst, of 1. Castle Terrace. whose son Ernest was in this branch of the Army.
Mrs. Hurst said “I knew Ernest had been transferred to special work, but he has never told exactly what the work was, beyond the fact that training was more rigorous than be had been used to, and I had no idea that It was dangerous work until I was listening to a conversation on the recent raid on Bruneval in which it appears that the Commandos took part. I know he has been on a previous expedition but Ernest has never talked about it.”
Mrs Hurst informed our correspondent that she expected her son home for a few days’ leave in the near future.
From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Biting
Operation Biting, also known as the Bruneval Raid, was a British Combined Operations raid on a German coastal radar installation at Bruneval in northern France during the Second World War, on the night of 27–28 February 1942.