Colonel Patrick Anthony Porteous VC was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Patrick Anthony Porteous
No. 4 Commando was a battalion-sized British Army commando unit, formed in 1940 early in the Second World War. Although it was raised to conduct small-scale raids and harass garrisons along the coast of German occupied France, it was mainly employed as a highly trained infantry assault unit.
No. 4 Commando after a raid on France, April 1942.
Commandos watching the fish oil tanks burn.
Major Lord Lovat, giving orders before setting out on Operation Abercrombie 21 April 1942.
Landing craft of No 4 Commando running in to land at Orange one beach, on the right flank of the main assault at Dieppe.