Nigel, I attach the Unit Staff Tables for: HQ 176 Wksp & Pk Coy (less Wksp Secs & Adv Pk Sec) (incl FF Sec Type B) 176 Wksp & Pk Coy (Four Adv Pk...
Hello Raymond, Welcome to the forum and thank you for posting this extremely interesting photo! Do you by any chance have the complete document...
I thank you for posting these photos- Geoff Burgess, later Major and MBE, was my grandpa. Tash and pipe in many of these photos!
Having stumbled across Michel's previously transcribed Landing Timetable (from March 44) I can now only assume that there is no definitive time...
Just adding a bit more info – ‘pinched’ from another War Diary ;) 253 Field Company RE. This unit had 40 of its men distributed amongst the...
Hi, I think that most units had insufficient transport to carry all their personnel, so were split into Vehicle and Marching parties for...
That's what I was figuring. I was trying to work out how many men on board an LST e.g. 15 marching parties of IWT engineers and 9 marching parties...
Yes, I waded through a few but none the wiser!
Hi Tracy Using the site search facility then there are a number of references to marching parties on D Day - not sure they will fuly answer your...
Possibly - probably - a silly question, as it doesn't seem to have been asked before, and the magic of google brings up nothing, but what were the...
Following is the transcription of the Landing Table entry for Serial 1741 as per my post #3 above but with all the military abbreviations replaced...
I suppose that the photos of LST 159 you have are among those below: At Anzio: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] For Operation NEPTUNE, LST 159 was in...
The Beach Maintenance Area. [ATTACH] 1st Key Plan. To be implemented on D Day. TA1. Transit Area 1. TVP1. Transit Vehicle Park 1. TA2....
I am pleased to report than Adrian Lee, son of Captain Jack Lee, has joined the forum. See: 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment June 6th-7th...
Medical Units. Stage 1. H to H + 110 minutes. Beach Dressing Stations, formed from the Light Sections of 25 and 31 Field Dressing Stations, were...
The D Day Landing Table for SWORD includes a number of small parties from 'A' Bombardment Troop (Unit Mobilisation Number = 36119), two one of...
SWORD BEACH. OPERATING THE BEACH. Transit Areas and Assembly Areas. The troops of the assault division landing on the first tide went straight...
SWORD BEACH. OPERATING THE BEACH. SHORE TO DUMPS. (and Assembly Areas The Second Key Plan, made by the Beach Group Commander and his staff and...
SWORD BEACH H+250 MINUTES. In the original table this group was scheduled to land at H+240. LCTs land with priority vehicles for 185 Brigade....
[Please note: Despite what may be referred to in the text, so far other than Officer Field Returns there are no appendices, no sketch maps - and,...
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