3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards) Nominal Roll.

If Laura Laws is still following this thread the medals of her grandfather are up for auction next week at Noonans here:

Lot 163, Orders, Decorations, Medals and... (8 October 2025) | Noonans Mayfair



Update: Twenty minutes after posting!! Found Laura Laws through Googling her, sent her a text, she called and she is aware that they are being auctioned.

 

And the good news is that Laura and her family managed to buy her grandfather's nedals at auction. They went for well over the estimate but she is over the moon.

 

Great to see the medals return to the family whatever the cost.

 

Sorry if this is not the correct place to ask this question, but my grandfather was with the 3rd Carabiniers before WW2 began and was invalided out with a knee problem right at the start of the war. His service record lists "Home (France)" for 1940, but as far as I'm aware the 3rd Carabiniers were never posted to France. Does anyone know what this might mean?

 

That doesn't look right. Could you take a photo of the relevant page and post it.

 

Of course. Sorry, I have not looked at the record for a long time and had not remembered that the line above shows transfer to "Army Reserve"

 

Hi Mark

That is unusual. Those I have seen show the time in France/Belgium as something like 'BEF' and give the exact dates. He was in the reserve and was called up 1/2 Sept 1939 which was common for those activated from the Reserve or TA. But the date in August 1940 for the end of that period is far beyond the end of most hostilities in France which for most culminated in Dunkirk which was at the end of May 1940 and the first week of June.

Given this I would be looking around all the other detail on the records, the history of his unit, stories in the family etc to see if there is anything that corroborates his being in France and Belgium with the BEF.

 

Thank you for your help. August 1940 would be his discharge for health reasons. I think we have as much info now as we're likely to get from family etc. He never spoke about it really.

There is some paperwork relating to him applying and being accepted into the Royal Corps of Signals in 1942, but presumably if that had gone anywhere, it would have appeared in his service book? Or would he get a new one? It's possibly something to do with his disability pension. Do you think there would be any additional detail if we applied to the MOD for his service records?

 

Yes, it is worth doing.