Remembing Today Casualty Details | CWGC KENNETH DOUGLAS PROBYN SKINNER Rank: Staff Serjeant Service No: 7896493 Date of Death: 26/04/1944 Age: 29 Regiment/Service: Royal Armoured Corps, 2nd Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Cemetery HELIOPOLIS WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 6. Q. 13. Location: Egypt Additional Information: Son of William Thomas Probyn-Skinner and Beatrice Probyn-Skinner; husband of Hilary Margaret Probyn-Skinner, of Hereford. Personal Inscription: THROUGH THE YEARS AND FOR EVER I SHALL REMEMBER
Clive - this is very odd as 2nd RGH were disbanded in January 1943- long after they took such beating at the Gazala Gallop - the members scattered around various regiments of 22nd Armoured bde and some even back to the UK to assist the 1st RGH which never left the Uk until around 1946 when they joined 26th Armoured bde of 6th AD in Austria and replacing 4th Hussars- which in turn had replaced Lothian and Border Horse .... Cheers
Probyn-Skinner - he definitely had a distinguished cavalry surname General Sir Dighton MacNaughton Probyn VC, GCB, GCSI, GCVO, ISO (21 January 1833 – 20 June 1924) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces The 5th King Edward's Own Probyn's Horse popularly called Probyn's Horse, and now officially designated as the 5th Cavalry a regiment of the British Indian Army, now Pakistan Army was named after him. Probynabad, a town in Punjab province of Pakistan with large farmlands owned by the 5th Cavalry is also named after him. Colonel James Skinner CB (1778 – 4 December 1841) was an Anglo-Indian military adventurer in India, who became known as Sikandar Sahib later in life, and most known for two cavalry regiments he raised for the British, later known as 1st Skinner's Horse and 3rd Skinner's Horse (formerly 2nd Skinner's Horse) at Hansi in 1803, which still are a part of the Indian Army The 1st Duke of York's Own Lancers (Skinner's Horse) was a unit of the British Indian Army from 1922 to independence and thereafter a unit of the Indian Army. Its foundation was when it was raised in 1803 as Skinner’s Horse by James Skinner (Sikander Sahib) as an irregular cavalry regiment in the service of the East India Company, the regiment became (and remains) one of the seniormost cavalry regiments of the Armoured Corps of the Indian Army.