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Discussion in 'User Introductions' started by RoyalWestKents, May 21, 2017.

  1. Good Evening all.
    As a new member I hope to learn much more about ww2.
     
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  2. dbf

    dbf Moderatrix MOD

    Welcome to the forum.
     
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  3. Thanks very much,I will find out about my dads regiment and division
     
  4. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

  5. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Welcome to the forum
     
  6. spidge

    spidge RAAF RESEARCHER

    Welcome to the forum.
     
  7. Charley Fortnum

    Charley Fortnum Dreaming of Red Eagles

    Welcome,

    I have an interest in 6 RWK and their time at Cassino in 1944. Do you know which battalion your father was with and when he served?

    I have a copy of the Regimental History on my shelf, so let us know and I can get you the basics with ease.
     
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  8. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    Welcome aboard.
     
  9. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Velcome :)
     
  10. Hello my dad was in the 6th RWK,he said very little about it.
    He mentioned some snippets about his time in Africa,and little of Italy but never Cassino.
     

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  11. Charley Fortnum

    Charley Fortnum Dreaming of Red Eagles

    I have some of the War Diaries for 6RWK in 1944. They only cover a few months but they're packed full of information.
    If you would like me to search for any reference to him, just post a name/rank/number--whatever you have.

    There is one publication solely on 6RWK, but it costs a bomb:

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  12. Charley Fortnum

    Charley Fortnum Dreaming of Red Eagles

    6RWK on Castle Hill at Cassino [1944]:

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    6RWK In Tunisia [1942 & '43 respectively]:
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  13. Thanks Henry Arthur Moriarty,Private 14400137
     
  14. Charley Fortnum

    Charley Fortnum Dreaming of Red Eagles

    I've skimmed over the Jan-April 1944 Diaries and although a very large number of Private soldiers are listed, your father is not.
    That doesn't mean that he wasn't there, but it does hint in that direction.

    I'll also note that there were a very large number of courts martial for the battalion during that period--mostly for absence, desertion and refusing a lawful order.
     
  15. I've found out they transferred him into 7th RWK and later RASC as he was a driver
     
  16. I have a letter sent by him to his mum with 6th RWK on it so I'm a bit confused,but I guess they moved troops where they wanted.
     
  17. Charley Fortnum

    Charley Fortnum Dreaming of Red Eagles

    Interesting--do you have dates for any of this?

    As I say, I have the Regimental History so even if only 'snapshots' I can probably locate him for you once I know a date and a battalion.

    Edit: I only meant that he may not have been with 6RWK for those four months that the diaries cover. My own grandfather was away from his unit and in hospital for two months.
     
  18. He was transferred into RWK on 5/10/42
    Transferred to RASC on 6/4/45
     
  19. Charley Fortnum

    Charley Fortnum Dreaming of Red Eagles

    6th or 7th RWK?
    And transferred from which unit?
     
  20. General service corps
    7th it seems
     

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