Award MBE Lt. A.A.M. Gregson, 74th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery Escaper

Award M.B.E. Lt. Anthony Allgood Moore Gregson, 74th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (105901)

WO 373/94/580
Captured with 1 Field Regiment and later wounded in Normandy June 1944, survived the war.

 

South of Fuka on 9 June seems highly unlikely. Suspect 29 June.

All the best

Andreas

 

The 74th Field Regiment, RA, were Divisional troops of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division. The 50 Div had been fighting in Sicily, as an assault Division and all the way through, until returning to the UK in preparation for D-Day, where once again they were an assault Division (on Gold Beach) and fought through the Normandy campaign.

Hence, how Lt. Gregson was an escaped PoW in Italy in September 1943 and was later wounded in Normandy in June 1944.

 

Tony Gregson joined 147 Fd Regt (Essex Yeo) before D Day as GPO 'A' Tp (413 Fd Bty) and was wounded on landing. See:
The Essex Yeomanry
Roly Poly.
Artillery FOOs embedded with the Infantry on D-Day
Artillery FOOs embedded with the Infantry on D-Day
Artillery FOOs embedded with the Infantry on D-Day