Hampshire Regiment arm of service

one of the few i have !!
also have one of him driving an american half jeep half boet thing would like to find out what it is....will post on here whe i get the chance maybe u chaps can tell me.

 

off to bed thanx guys hope to catch up with this 2mora thanx again for all ya help si.

 

Yogib -
thought there might a medical reason for leaving a fighting unit to take on a base wallahs job - his service record will indicate where and when he was in Hospital - I would assume this to be -probably the 98th gen Hosp in Algiers
the 4th Div insignia was a Red circle with a quarter quadrant cut out denoting 4th

The A.M.G.O.T. was in fact Allied Military Government for Occupied Territories but to us - this was where our currency came from as we did not use the Italian lire - they did the civil stuff with the local councils - allocating space for various divisions and that sort of thing - but to us they were the Treasury Dept handing the cash over to the pay corps - for our one pound per week to go mad on !
Cheers

 

[FONT=&quot]The 2/4th Battalion.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Details taken from "The Royal Hampshire Regiment 1918 - 1954" by David Scott Daniell.[/FONT]
" [FONT=&quot]that night a fierce German counter-attack was made by the Germans ", [/FONT]

 

cheers tom now i did come across the red circle but he couldnt have worn all of these badges so which ones would you go for i have the 43rd wessex the yellow dragon or the red circle? this was when igot confused as to which one?

 

hi owen so an oak tree i shall have a look for it see what it looks like !!
then after this it would have been 15th army group when in italy? a blue and white wavey badge?

 

is this the one?

The tree represents a Sherwood Forrest oak, chosen for this Territorial Army Division because it was composed of Territorials of the north-midland counties

Brigades 137th Infantry Brigade 02.10.1939 - 19.07.1942 128th Infantry Brigade 15.08.1942 - 31.08.1945 138th Infantry Brigade 02.10.1939 - 31.08.1945 139th Infantry Brigade 02.10.1939 - 29.11.1944 &
18.01.1945 - 31.08.1945

 

lol owen your to quick !!

 

so far then i have this :

1st army

46th inf. div

now the red stripes that indicated seniority is there any way of finding out how many he would of had 1 2 or3?

and is square you posted before with half yellow and half black still relivent?

 

spot on nice one owen!!!! so the one on the left!!!

he was only there till 1943 then got posted to 15th army group so would have changed again makes sence!!!!

 

owen i noticed this in another post you made does this not conflict with what you have here ? just want to double check lol

Tom, you've the wrong Battalion.
1/4th R Hamps were in 46 Div.
2/4th R Hamps were in 28 bde, 4 Div .
Donnie, gimme a mo & I'll post a page from the Regimental History

 

oh ok thank owen are you as good on ww1 uniforms as you are on ww2 ones?
my father has asked if i could ask your advice on a photo we have of my ggf there seems to be a badge on his left wrist was hoping you might know what it is...

 

no there is no mark on the original i was thinking it was a long service badge he joined in 1903 till 1919 but its upsidedown and on the incorret arm isnt it?