Green Howards War Diaries (1 month period) 26-08-44 to 21-09-44

And brilliant detective work on the dates - I'll take it as read from you chaps - you'll know more than me - hats off to Steve and Tom - the first for the info about the dates of action for the Green Howards and the second for the x and y list info which I agree puts the injury as near as damm it the 12-09-44. I had a look at the link to the explanations for this - the only discrepancy I found was that there looked to be a 21 day period between being put on the Xii list and going onto the Y list - maybe the injury was deemed bad enough to avoid the 21 days?
Michael.

Hello Michael,

First of all, you are welcome, Second, I think it is fair to say his injury was bad enough for him to be evacuated after 8 days.

Good luck with the War Diaries; and let us know what you find.

Although Paul Cheall's father was in the 6th Green Howards, his father and your grandfather would have been involved in much the same actions; and its a very good read... give Paul's link a viewing!!!

All the best,

Steve.

 

Like a pair of girls with a doll eh chaps? Have just sent a PM Lee.

It's OK and as Lee says I only do complete files plus he can now get the coffee's in for the rest of the year :p

 

Thanks for the replies folks - have been away for the weekend. Cheers Drew - no favouritism but thanks all the same - I'm definitely going to order the 2 months I need for the GH and probably all of 1944 for the 8th (Liverpool Irish) Battalion to start with. PS - how much is a coffee??? As for the landing crafts - I'll never know for sure the exact one other than between the serials 1056-1067 and it was pure luck that I found this out. My grandfather always said he'd gone on with the Canadians but that was just a story to me as a young boy. Eventually years later and with research, you uncover the truths and thanks to forums, etc and the fact that a chap on another thread had done just the Canadian landing formations one finds information like that out. It is a monumental testimony that people are prepared to do all this research and when I got the info about a year ago it was still work in progress!

 

£1.95

 

Make it 2 then?

 

Hi Michael
I'm quite envious that you have managed to trace which landing craft your GF was on - I don't think that sort of info is available for my Dad's unit which was 6GH, 69th Brigade, going in with the first wave on Gold Beach.


Did you get copies of the appendices from the units war diary?

Many folk just order the diary section from Kew and in my opinion miss out potentially on some of the best information like sketch maps, nominal rolls and standing orders etc etc.

 

Hi Drew - have asked Lee for the lot for the 2 rolls I'm interested in to start with.

 

Hi Folks,

Just to say thanks to Lee for the war diaries (hope you got the cheque OK) - there was quite a lot so I've been pouring over them for the last week. Whilst my grandfather's not named in person I'm pretty sure he was injured (12 Sept 1944) sometime between 13.00 and 22.00 very close to Veerle just south of Geel in Belgium. Looks like (from my Google mapping and following place names mentioned) that they approached Geel from the north crossing the Albert Canal before moving south through Geel and down to Veerle where the diary states the whole battalion was concentrated at 24.00 on the 12 Sept. Not sure which company as it says that B and D were under heavy artillery fire during the day and also that A and D came under tank attack. So I called an aunt last night who recalled my grandfather had said that they were under artillery attack and that tanks were also involved and that he and quite a few other men had jumped into a shell crater - him being convinced that a tank had seen them - anyhow next thing he knows he's had his rucksack blown off his back before waking up in a field hospital. The casualty list for the day states 2 officers killed (Capt R.E. Ellison and Lt B. Wroe), 5 ORs and 11 ORs injured. No mention of the ORs companies but I could make out that Lt Wroe was in D company - the handwriting was too faded to make out Capt Ellison's company. So if tanks were involved as my grandfather said then it must be A or D company and quite possibly D company given that they were also under artillery fire and that this was Wroe's company too? If anyone's an expert in the map reference numbers I could probably be more precise as the individual companies have these for most days (e.g. A 216742, B 218755, etc.) and I could post these if anyone's interested.

Cheers - Michael.

PS I'm off to be more precise with the landings given that Lee also did 8 King's Battalion diary (Jan-Aug 1944) for me at the same time.

 

Does any one have any war diaries for the 1st bn Green Howards around ANZIO time or later?
Researching my Uncle.
Cheers

 

Sorry to hijack your thread. Could I ask how do I find out more about my great uncles Norman Rose 6th Battalion all I know is his service number 4697634 and the date of his death 15.11.44 and Richard Henry Rose 2nd Battalion Green Howards 4397926. He has no known grave that's all I know. Any help however small would be greatly appreciated

 

From the battalion war diary

 

Just sent a PM 7th BN GH