I have been asked to find some info on 1589282 Gunner Harry Sykes. I have a poor photocopy of photos from Twisteden, N Germany and The Citadel Diest W Belgium about 1944. Does this ring any bells for anyone. I'm unable to find anything on 67 LAA RA so far. Any help appreciated.
click>>> RA 1939-45 67 LAA became 623 Rgt RA >>>> RA 1939-45 623 Infantry Rgt <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=191 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left>Formed from 67 LAA Rgt 307 Inf Bde formed from 59 AA Bde. History and Commanders of 307 Infantry Brigade [British Commonwealth] I've been looking through that last site I linked to. Ignore some of the dates they give, as I've looked up some I already know and the dates don't match. (Dunno what is happening with my text on the post, I pasted something, it didn't work, so deleted it , now my text is all messed up.) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
I have been asked to find some info on 1589282 Gunner Harry Sykes. I have a poor photocopy of photos from Twisteden, N Germany and The Citadel Diest W Belgium about 1944. Does this ring any bells for anyone. I'm unable to find anything on 67 LAA RA so far. Any help appreciated. I can see why. 67 LAA (Light Anti-Aircraft) Regiment don't appear in the official history book. 'History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, Anti-Aircraft Artillery, 1914-55'. In the very comprehensive index the LAA regts jump from the 66th to the 69th. The 67th don't appear in the battery list either. There is a 67 HAA regiment but they were in SEAC, operating in India and Burma throughout the war. 67 AA Brigade don't get a mention until 1947 There is, in addition, 67 Anti-Tank Regt RA who served in N.Africa and Italy and a 67 Field Regiment RA but again they were in the desert and Italy. The only formation I can find that fits is 67 Medium Regt RA who were destroyed at Tobruk in 1942 but were later reformed and fought in NWE in 44-45 in 3 AGRA (Army Group Royal Artillery) Sorry I can't help.
(Dunno what is happening with my text on the post, I pasted something, it didn't work, so deleted it , now my text is all messed up.) Cutting and pasting sometimes brings odd formatting from the source site mate, if it happens select everything and try the 'remove text formatting' button : doesn't always work but usually does.
In the very comprehensive index the LAA regts jump from the 66th to the 69th. Bod, I'm surprised it leaves out 68 LAA Regt as they were in 59th Div. 59th (Staffordshire) Division in WWII
Hey folks you are doing great. It's just that his son-in-law has written to me thinking that Harry was in 6 LAA Battery. But the will form looks like 67 LAA to me and the guns in the photo are 25 pounders, so it probably is an Anti-Tank unit?? Brechin, Scotland 1942 and Kortrijk in east Belgium also get a mention
Hey folks you are doing great. It's just that his son-in-law has written to me thinking that Harry was in 6 LAA Battery. But the will form looks like 67 LAA to me and the guns in the photo are 25 pounders, so it probably is an Anti-Tank unit?? Brechin, Scotland 1942 and Kortrijk in east Belgium also get a mention It does look like 67 LAA Regt RA. But according to Owen's earlier post they were stationed in the UK for the duration. The only mention of 6 LAA Regt in the Regimental history is a ground operations role during operation Totalise/Tractable around Caen between 7th and 14th August 1944. In LAA Regts this usually means firing tracer at night to guide infantry. 25pdr's would be operated by a Field Regt RA, not Anti-Tank. Light Anti-Aircraft Regts would usually be operating 40mm Bofors guns.
As there is no date on the Will, maybe he wrote when he was with 67 LAA & then got posted elsewhere when the need for LAA units was reduced. Just a thought.
