248 THE FIRST OF FOOT And if it had thus been designated, actions on...
Hi Dick, Do you have this book currently: The Stafford Battery: 241/61st Field and Super Heavy Regiment Royal Artillery 1939-1945 (Maj R J E...
According to: Frederick, J.B.M. Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660-1978. Volumes 1 & 2. East Ardsley, Wakefield, Yorkshire: Microform...
Thank you so much bamboo43.
Hi Hinks, From the 77 Brigade HQ diary (see below), it looks like your grandfather was wounded on about the 4th June on the south-east outskirts...
...(or during) basic training, he is then transferred to the East Lancashire Regiment and posted to 19 Infantry Training Centre (who took in...
...DOB 17 April 1927 Service number 14025093 Looks like he joined the East Lancashire Regiment unit 19 ITC and transferred to the RASC unit 25 IHB
Hi all, I wonder if someone might be able to help me. I have received a copy of my Grandads war records.I thought it would give locations, but...
Here is the current list. They seemed to have combined some of the documents such as British Forces Middle East: ´A´ Military Mission...
4689819 A Coy Pte Barton Joby? Please update his name to Job Barton he is my grandad. Thanks.
...[ATTACH] From an RE OOB document I have 202nd (East Lancashire) Field Coy RE 1st line TA; 3 Sep 1939: Manchester; embodied with 42nd (East...
Off the top of my head I think 1st Bn South Lancashire Regiment & 2nd Bn East Yorkshire Regiment, No. 4 Commando came under heavy opposition and...
Many thanks for this - clarified a lot.
...that covers 29 May 1940. Burden, Brig. G.W.P.N. History of the East Lancashire Regiment in the War 1939-1945. Manchester: H. Rawson, 1953....
...years old. 144th Regt Royal Armoured Corps (8th Bn. The East Lancashire Regt.): 1. Jones, Eric Spencer, Lieutenant, Service Number: 264500,...
How would I work out what my grandad was in I have just received his service number but awaiting his records from TNA. His service number is T...
...OOB document I found online many years ago. 202nd 202nd (East Lancashire) Field Coy RE 1st line TA; 3 Sep 1939: Manchester; embodied with...
5 I.D. was No. 5 Infantry Depot, a holding unit, until moving on to 6th Holding Battalion, which also held reinforcements for the Lancashire...
This is amazing!! It's the first time that I've actually seen their names mentioned anywhere so just confirms 'they existed'. Also now have...
I see the Kentish Gazette is still going & reporting on the Canterbury, Whitstable & Herne Bay areas. If you don't have the text that went with...
Separate names with a comma.
