Ils sont au total 94 hommes à avoir pris part à l’opération Loyton, 84 dans le secteur principal de Moussey (Vosges) et 10 plus au nord dans le secteur de Igney (Meurthe et Moselle). Ils sont parachutés sur différentes DZs, en plusieurs vagues entre le 12 août et le 21 septembre 1944.
Secteur de Moussey :
- 73 hommes du Special Air Service – SAS
- 08 hommes du GHQ Liaison Regiment F Squadron – Phantom
- 03 hommes du Special Operations Executive – SOE- Jed Jacob
Nuit du 12/13 août 1944 – DZ Anatomie :
- Captain Henry Carey DRUCE – 120005 – 2 SAS
- Captain Robert DE LESSEPS (Fr) – alias GOODFELLOW
- Lieutenant David Gordon DILL – 265704 – 2 SAS
- Sergeant Ralph HAY – 845212 – 2 SAS
- Sergeant Robert LODGE – 5550151 – 2 SAS – de son vrai nom Rudolph FRIEDLANDER
- Private Charles Ronald CROSSFIELD – 2029863 – 2 SAS
- Private Wallace Albert HALL – 5337039 – 2 SAS
- Captain John Leslie HISLOP – 70647 – Phantom
- Sergeant Gerald Donovan DAVIS – 6898743 – Phantom
- Signalman Robert John SULLIVAN – 2334039 – Phantom
- Signalman George Gourlay JOHNSTON 2583876 – Phantom
- Private W. STANLEY – 3713538 – 2 SAS
- Captain Victor Albert GOUGH – 148884 – SOE Jed Jacob
- Capitaine Maurice BOISSARIE (Fr) – SOE Jed Jacob
- Sergeant Kenneth Roy SEYMOUR – 7946074 – SOE Jed Jacob
Nuit du 27/28 août 1944 – DZ Debussy :
- Major Peter Lancelot John Le POER POWER – 242296 – 2 SAS
- Lieutenant James Alastair McGREGOR – 77601 – 2 SAS
- Lance-Corporal George ROBINSON – 884882 – 2 SAS
- Private George Edward ARNOLD – 832141 – 2 SAS
- Private André Gaston MARCHAND (Fr) – 41345 (FAFL) – 2 SAS
- Private Ludwik MIKOLAJCZAK – 1055059 – 2 SAS
- Private Yvon Harry SUTTON – 319313 – 2 SAS
- Private William McQUEEN – 137795 – 2 SAS
- Private Edwin Thomas WEAVER – 1060893 – 2 SAS
- Private Patrick GREEN – 840781 – 2 SAS
Nuit du 31 août/1er septembre 1944 – DZ Etoc : 1er avion
- Lt. Colonel Brian Morton FRANKS – 89085 – 2 SAS
- Captain Christopher Hugh SYKES – 33030 – 2 SAS
- Captain Ian Cassels MILLER – 107026 – 2 SAS
- Captain Anthony Robert WHATELY-SMITH – 113612 – 2 SAS
- Lieutenant Peter Bowater JOHNSEN – 245323 – Phantom
- Capitaine Henri Guillaume DERRINGER (Fr) – FFI alias Abbé PELLEGRIN – rejoint le GMA Vosges
- Corporal Leonard ‘Len’ Caerwyn OWENS – 2365996 – Phantom
- Signalman John Smith BELL – 14363778 – Phantom
- Private Peter ROBB – 14205480 – 2 SAS
- Private James William Robert BENNETT – 14219880 – 2 SAS
- Signalman Peter BANNERMAN – 2369000 – Phantom
Nuit du 31 août/1er septembre 1944 – DZ Etoc : 2ème avion
- Lieutenant Fritz Rudolph MARX – 245682 – 2 SAS
- S. S. M. James McDonald WHITE – 5498696 – 2 SAS
- Sergeant Frank Ernest TERRY-HALL – 4122304 – 2 SAS
- Corporal Thomas IVISON – T/73377 – 2 SAS
- Lance-Corporal Christian Noël FERRANDI (Fr) – 41274 (FAFL) – 2 SAS
- Private Thomas Dent COWING – 1491708 – 2 SAS
- Private Frederick Leonard AUSTIN – 6287803 – 2 SAS
- Private Jack Stanley CROSIER – 14402126 – 2 SAS
- Private Gordon Charles PRITCHARD – 5183201 – 2 SAS
- Private Gordon YOUNG – 1789936 – 2 SAS
- Private Maurice Arthur GRIFFIN – 873123 – 2 SAS
- Private Donald LEWIS – 14410725 – 2 SAS
- Private Andrew GARTH – 3130299 – 2 SAS
Nuit du 06/07 septembre 1944 – DZ Pré Barbier :
- Major Denis Bingham REYNOLDS – 130586 – 2 SAS
- Lieutenant James Desmond BLACK – 262193 – 2 SAS
- R.Q.M.S. Alec Gerald TAYLOR – 5947917 – 2 SAS
- Sergeant Michael Benedict FITZPATRICK – 321375 – 2 SAS
- Corporal Harry WINDER – 3460628 – 2 SAS
- Corporal Jack Rushton SPENCER – 4806045 – 2 SAS
- Lance-Corporal Victor Samuel REDHEAD – 6287843 – 2 SAS
- Lance-Corporal Sidney James WEBB – 6843051 – 2 SAS
- Lance-corporal John Herbert ELLIOTT – 4200829 – 2 SAS
- Private James SALTER – 4200942 – 2 SAS
- Private Leonard Edwin Charles LLOYD – 2063834 – 2 SAS
- Private John Joseph CONWAY – 14567132 – 2 SAS
- Private James Frederick DOWLING – 5346560 – 2 SAS
- Private Albert Dennis SALTHOUSE – 7946496 – 2 SAS
- Lance-Corporal Joseph ZANDARCO (Fr) – 41446 (FAFL) – 2 SAS
Nuit du 19/20 septembre 1944 – DZ La Charbonnière :
- Corporal Grigori KUBISKI – 74983 – 2 SAS
- Private François PERRIN (Fr) – 66305 – 2 SAS
- Corporal Boris KASPEROVITCH – 13301351 alias George KING – 2 SAS
- Sergeant Percy Roy THORPE – 6844525 – 2 SAS
- Private Thomas MILLIKEN – 321599 – 2 SAS
- Lance-Corporal Ian Alfred LARLEY – S / 93313 – 2 SAS
- 3 jeeps
Nuit du 21/22 septembre 1944 – DZ La Charbonnière :
- Captain Bridge George McGIBBON-LEWIS – 156583 – 2 SAS
- Sergeant Walter Henry Edgar NEVILL – 2938162 – 2 SAS
- Private Selwyn Percival BROWN – 315950 – 2 SAS
- Lieutenant Lord Charles John Robert MANNERS – 217587 – 2 SAS
- Private Peter McGOVERN – 900715 – 2 SAS
- Private Percy Clifford MASON – 2662061 – 2 SAS
- Private Reginald Stanley CHURCH – 2938122 – 2 SAS
- Lieutenant James Lovitt SILLY – 304006 – 2 SAS
- Private Joseph HERBERT – 4747386 – 2 SAS
- Private Thomas George MERRYFIELD – 5193211 – 2 SAS
- Private G. HOPKINS – 2SAS
- Lieutenant Donald Edward SWAYNE – 1483524 – 2 SAS
- Private Henry Ernest DAINES – 5334575 – 2 SAS
- Private Frederick Arthur PUTTICK – 6201328 – 2 SAS
Secteur de Igney : Opération indépendante secteur nord de Loyton
- 10 hommes du Special Air Service – SAS
Nuit du 09/10 septembre 1944 – DZ Saint Georges :
- Lieutenant Joseph Maurice ROUSSEAU (Can) – CAN 74-112-95 – 2 SAS
- Corporal Joseph PICHON-MARTIN (Fr) – 3930 – 2 SAS (Fr Sqn)
- Lance-Corporal Paul Louis Aimé GALMARD (Fr) – 3451 – 2 SAS (Fr Sqn) L/Cpl Paul GALMARD
- Lance-Corporal Marcel MAZIERE (Fr) – 4712 – 2 SAS (Fr Sqn)
- Private André CENTOLLE (Fr) – 10197 – 3 SAS att 2 SAS
- Private Raymond LE CHEVALIER (Fr) – 476 – 2 SAS (Fr Sqn)
- Private Angel CAMARENA (Spaniard) – 13301810 – 2 SAS
- Private Francisco Lopez MARTINEZ (Spaniard) – 13301792 – 2 SAS
- Private WILKINSON – 13033051 – 2 SAS
- Private Wilhelm Josef REICHENSTEIN – 13809165 – 2 SAS
They stay alive as long as we remember them.