2/5th Bn DLI confusion

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  1. russ tobin

    russ tobin Active Member

    Can someone please help me to decipher the following information taken from CWGC?

    Lance BombardierRICHARDSON, ISAAC
    Service Number 4535197

    Died 29/07/1944

    Aged 33

    370 Bty., 113 (2/5th Bn. The Durham Light Infantry) Lt. A.A. Regt.
    Royal Artillery

    Thanks in advance for any replies.
     
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  2. dbf

    dbf Moderatrix MOD

    It's a unit converted
    pre-war from infantry to Searchlight Battalion under Royal Engineers,
    then eventually to Light Anti Aircraft Regiment under Royal Artillery.

    So for WW2 the unit became 113th Light Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (formerly 2/5 DLI). L/Bdr Richardson served in 370th battery of 113 LAA Regt

    Referred to in these threads:
    5th BN Durham Light Infantry
    History rewritten ?

    Small write up on this link:
    113th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, The Royal Artillery - Durham Record Office


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  3. russ tobin

    russ tobin Active Member

    Thx DBF that's great information.
     
  4. dryan67

    dryan67 Senior Member

    2nd/5th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry (55th Searchlight Regiment) (T.A.)

    43rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade – 3 September 1939 to 1 August 1940
    The battalion was located at West Hartlepool at the start of the war with HQ and the 414th to 416th Companies.

    Service as Royal Artillery
    It transferred to the Royal Artillery on August 1st, 1940 as 55th Searchlight Regiment, R.A. (The Durham Light Infantry)(T.A.) with the 414th to 416th Batteries. The 530th Battery was added on February 11th, 1941. It formed part of 43rd AA Brigade in February 1941. The regiment was converted to the 113th Light AA Regiment, R.A. (The Durham Light Infantry)(T.A.) on January 6th, 1942 with the 368th to 371st Batteries. The 371st Battery left on July 12th, 1942. The regiment arrived in France by June 25th, 1944 and served under the 76th AA Brigade in the Gold Beach area. It moved to the Somme bridges under the 106th AA Brigade on August 30th and to Ghent under the brigade on September 5th, 1944. On November 10th, 1944 it moved to Nijmegen and came under the 74th AA Brigade. It formed part of the 100th AA Brigade in December 1944 in the Weert, Deurne, and Helmond area. It remained attached to this brigade until the end of the war as part of the VIII Corps serving in the Rhine crossing in March 1945.
     
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  5. ww2 D.L.I 1/5th posted to Royal Artillery searchlight regiment 413/52 regiment. anyone know where I can find the path of this regiment please.
     
  6. Richard Makinson

    Richard Makinson Taxidood

    4453730 Makinson ,Louis Andrew, my Father, I think I have located a group photo of some of this regiment taken at Ganton, in North Yorkshire, I am trying to acquire a copy, if I'm successful Will i be able to post the photo here ?
     
  7. davidbfpo

    davidbfpo Patron Patron

    Welcome aboard Richard. Yes, you will be able to post a photo here. Click on the camera icon and follow the instructions. If their names are on the back please post that too.
     
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  8. Richard Makinson

    Richard Makinson Taxidood

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  9. Richard Makinson

    Richard Makinson Taxidood

    In the meantime here's one taken in Holland 1944.
     
  10. Richard Makinson

    Richard Makinson Taxidood

    370Battery-113thDLI-768x285.jpg
     
  11. Nick P

    Nick P Active Member

    Hi Richard - is Louis Makinson on that group photo and is that the group photo you refer to at Ganton?
    I own the original and can enlarge faces if you think any numbers could be a possibility. Issac Richardson was in the unit - 370 Battery but may not be on the photo as he may have been in a different troop unit (of 370 Battery).
     
  12. Richard Makinson

    Richard Makinson Taxidood

    I must admit that I got all excited, but, no he's not in that group, I am still waiting to hear if I am allowed a copy of the photo that he is on.
     
  13. Nick P

    Nick P Active Member

    Oh ok. I run the Belsen website too and thanks for adding Louis details on there. Do you know what Battery he was in? Are we talking 113th LAA here - and is your other photo the same place as the coloured one? Ganton? I posted this the other day to attempt to get a location.
     
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  14. Richard Makinson

    Richard Makinson Taxidood

    Battery number not known, I have his T A tracer cards but they only give numbers allocated after the war, his T A enlistment would have been Easington or Horden so I'm presuming 2/5, 55, 113 LAA.
     
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  15. Nick P

    Nick P Active Member

    I had a go at colouring the image
     

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  16. Richard Makinson

    Richard Makinson Taxidood

    Photograph found, but now I'm confused, I know that my Father was in 113 LAA as, on his TA tracer card (postwar) he was moved into 590 S/L LAA. The photo is titled BHQ 413 Battery, so I am going to assume that he was in the newly formed 530 Battery and that would put him in the Western Europe theatre of war, if I'm wrong on any of this, please put me right. FB_IMG_1651262114294.jpg no names I'm afraid, this has been reproduced and forms part of a wall sized collage.
     
  17. Richard Makinson

    Richard Makinson Taxidood

    FB_IMG_1651262114294.jpg I believe that this unit stayed in the UK for the duration of the war.!!!???
    On further investigation, RHQ and two batteries embarked for Europe in November 1944.
     
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  18. Richard Makinson

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  19. Richard Makinson

    Richard Makinson Taxidood

    Another with Dad on. 413
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