Commanding Officers
The following officers served as the 2/6th Cavalry Commando Regiment's commanding officer:
- Lieutenant Colonel Maurice Alfred Fergusson (October 1939 – March 1941) (wounded in action);
- Major Stewart Archibald Morrison (March 1941 – June 1941);
- Lieutenant Colonel Denzil Macarthur-Onslow (June 1941 – April 1942);
- Lieutenant Colonel John Edward Abbott (May 1942 – January 1944); and
- Lieutenant Colonel Eric Claude Hennessy (January 1944 – September 1945).
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