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Captain Colin Douglas Maud DSO & Bar, DSC & Bar (21 January 1903 – 1980) was a Royal Navy officer who during the Second World War, who commanded the destroyers Somali and Icarus and acted as beach master of Juno beach at the D-day landings. With a heavy black beard, he "possessed the outward appearance of a latter-day buccaneer and was endowed with exceptional boldness and tenacity to go with it".

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  • Captain Colin Douglas Maud DSO & Bar, DSC & Bar (21 January 1903 – 1980) was a Royal Navy officer who during the Second World War, who commanded the destroyers Somali and Icarus and acted as beach master of Juno beach at the D-day landings. With a heavy black beard, he "possessed the outward appearance of a latter-day buccaneer and was endowed with exceptional boldness and tenacity to go with it".
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  • Colin Douglas Maud
  • Maud, Colin Douglas
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  • "Mad" Maud
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  • Royal Navy Officer and beachmaster at Juno beach
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  • (1942)
  • (1945–46)
  • (1931–32)
  • (1935–37)
  • (1937–42)
  • (1946–47)
  • (1948–49)
  • 4th Minesweeping Flotilla (1951–53)
  • Amphibious Warfare Centre (1954–56)
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