I've created a website in memory of the 140th (5th London) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. 140th (5th London) Army Field Regiment, Royal Artillery – Their story between the 10th and 31st May 1940 It relates to my father's experience with the Regiment from 1939-1940 and the subsequent years he spent in captivity in Stalag VIIIB. As we approach the 80th anniversary of Dunkirk it would be great to hear from any other 140th Regiment descendants!
Many thanks for that! It's designed to be update-able as more information becomes available- and I was interested in your past posts about Cpt. Hood- anything you have available would be much appreciated and could potentially be included....Regards
Really excellent website John. My grandfather's first unit was the 139th (4th London) from Lewisham, and it was especially interesting to read about the time out in Gloucestershire where they were both training. Not sure the 140th were too popular with some of the 139th - the 140th got its overseas orders first by a few weeks and so pinched all of the 139th's ammunition trailers as well as other kit. The trailers had only arrived recently and the camouflage paint jobs had only just been finished. The 139th had to collect a whole new batch of trailers from Bromley and start the painting again...
That's really interesting! Do you have anymore war diary or photos of the time in Glostershire? Regards
Not much more of relevance from that time, apart from the III Corps counter-battery fire exercise that the 139th and 140th went on together. Might be a copy of this stuff in the 140th's war diary appendices, but just in case you haven't seen it:
Absolutely, please feel free, they're from photos of 139 Field's war diary I took at the National Archives. File reference for the diary is WO 166/155.
