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I feel that the following sentence should be changed since only 14 were aboard

Aboard was a complement from Z Special Unit of four British and eleven Australian personnel, comprising:

The two pictures which are placed to the left need to be fixed in a border and have an appropriate caption. Also, the "Belligerents" should be only "Z Special Unit", as it explains in that article that there were other nationalities involved. It should also have the Australian flag since it was originally an Australian Unit with other nationalities involved. Adamdaley (talk) 04:36, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually at the time all 'Australian' nationals would have been British subjects as separate Australian nationality did not exist until 1948. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.148.220.15 (talk) 09:57, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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The Hampshire Chronicle (weekly newspaper) on p41 of Thu 28 Dec 2023 has a piece relevant to this subject, entitled 'Wartime raid medal for auction'. (I cannot find a link to the piece on the HC's website, perhaps because it is a sponsored piece, effectively an advert for the auction house Pump House Auctions, whose own website does not list an auction on the date mentioned below, so is of little help.)

It reports that nine medals awarded to Acting Sergeant [listed as Corporal in the article], later Major Ronald George "Taffy" Morris of the Royal Army Medical Corps are to be auctioned on 17 January (2024). These include a "secret" "military medal" [evidently a mistyping of Military Medal, since one is pictured in the accompanying photo], one of only two awarded to members of the raid, approved by King George VI in May 1944 on the Secret List.

Morris (it says) was recruited to the SOE's "Orient Mission" as a Medical orderly, and took part in the Operation Jaywick raid. His award was for "gallantry and distinguished service as Medical Orderly in the MV Krait ship during the 48-day 4,000 mile round-trip raid on the harbour." The medals are being sold by his son Evan who has recently written his father's biography The Tiger's Revenge. I suggest that these and further details in the newspaper piece, and perhaps more in the book, might yield further facts worth inserting into the article. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 51.198.104.88 (talk) 04:42, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]