The Lord he moves in Mysterious ways...

Discussion in 'British Army Units - Others' started by Verrieres, Jan 6, 2009.

  1. Mr Jinks

    Mr Jinks Bit of a Cad

    Relevant to Post 18

    Father Duggan MC. att 8th DLI

    The medals awarded to this gentleman looking a little sad and neglected? :(

    Duggan - Woodward Auctioneers

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  2. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    Interesting ribbon for an MC

    TD
     
  3. Ron Goldstein

    Ron Goldstein WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    I wonder who was responsible for setting up these decorations ?

    Ron
     
  4. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

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  5. bexley84

    bexley84 Well-Known Member

    best wishes
    Ron Goldstein

    JEWISH PASSOVER SERVICE IN ITALY
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  6. bexley84

    bexley84 Well-Known Member

    and while I'm on - a nice picture of Father Dan Kelleher from Rathmore, co Kerry: padre to the Irish Brigade in Italy. He was awarded the MC for his actions in April 1944 near Caira...he was killed in a road accident in Berlin in 1956

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  7. AB64

    AB64 Senior Member

    I only have a few RAChD bit, and not a great deal of info on the individuals service so please feel free to flesh it out if you can.

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    Dog Tags of Noah Owen 306614

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    An envelope to Thomas Trevor Williams who was attached to 28 Field Regiment, I'm guessing only recently as its addressed to his draft code

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    A sympathy letter from Neville Sidney Metcalfe 101736 of 7th Hussars, he was awarded the DSO and was twice MiD


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    Another sympathy letter this time from Christopher Perowne - his unit looks like 7DCG but the casualty he is writing about is from the County of London Yeomanry so I'm not sure if he had moved on from them - from 1939-41 he was Chaplain of 9th Lancers and later he served as senior chaplain with the Chindits

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    Letter from Ronald Robertson 111026 chaplain of 2nd Cameronians, he was wounded 22/1/44 (as talked about in the letter) - previously he was Chaplain to the Lovats and was also wounded 2/12/41 (I think in an air raid on the Faroes) - he was MiD

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    Letter (sorry I only scanned one side before I put it away a while ago) from James George Grant Fleming 11873 who served in the Far east - in WW1 he served as an officer in the Gordons and won the DSO and MC
     
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  8. AB64

    AB64 Senior Member

    Another bit - an airgraph from Rev Christopher Charles Barnett who was commissioned in the RAChD in Feb 1939 - according to a tree on Ancestry he served in Aldershot until 1943 when he went to North Africa, Sicily then Italy but no clue what unit he was attached too

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  9. Quarterfinal

    Quarterfinal Well-Known Member

    The link seems broken, but these are currently effective:
    https://www.canada.ca/en/department...ictoria-cross-recipients/john-weir-foote.html

    JOHN FOOTE VC

    I think he must have been in Stalag VIIIb at some time:
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    and wonder if his postcard portrait - likely posted home - survives? Perhaps he, as a padre, might not have been handcuffed at the time - but judging by his character, I expect he would have refused a dispensation. Anyway, the artist would have been handcuffed ........ although these were fairly readily unlockable with an average screwdriver or similar.

    Four members of the British Army Chaplains Department have been awarded the VC:
    Royal Army Chaplains' Department - Wikipedia
    and Lt Col Bernard Vann VC MC was exceptional as an already ordained minister receiving his as a combattant. I have recollections of at least one other who took the cloth in later life. So is Bernhart correct (for WW2)?
     

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