Hallo all I wonder if anyone has any info regarding which units embarked for D-Day through Millwall and West India Docks? Somewhere I have heard that the Queens left from Millwall on D-Day+4 and as that's my Grandad's unit I'd love to know more as we all grew up there and I still cant get over the idea that he left from pretty much his home Any info appreciated
I have landing tables for 7th Armoured on D Day and D+1. These only show the armoured brigade which sailed from Felixstowe. Other sources I have say that the infantry concentrated at Brentwood and West Ham and boarded troop ships at Tilbury. However that leaves the vehicles (and crews) which could well have embarked at the London Docks. They would be carried on Motor Transport Ships (Liberty) and Motor Transport Coasters. Mike
Thanks Mike, that's helpful and rings true as Millwall dock was used to transport civilian cars out of the UK for decades up until closure
I have found another reference which has some further clues. It says that the vehicles of 11th Hussars sailed from Millwall Docks and landed on Juno before motoring to join 7th Armoured. At least this suggests that vehicles of 7th Armoured embarked at Millwall. Mike.
The Liberty ship Sambut, carrying troop reinforcements and supplies, left Victoria Dock on the Thames on June 3, 1944 to join a convoy at Southend. At noon on June 6, as it sailed for Normandy, it was struck by two long-range German shells and sank off Dover.
