info about my grandfather in 2 Northamptons

Could not upload what I wanted as file to big and not very good on computers.

 

Or did all of 2nd battalion go to Madagascar and then meet up with 17th in India?

 

17th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia
Component units included:[6]
2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers
2nd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment
2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders (to 30 March 1940)
6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders (from 30 March 1940)
156th (Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery

Madagascar in World War II - Wikipedia
An Allied naval force consisting of over 50 ships under the command of Rear Admiral Edward Neville Syfret arrived off the coast of Madagascar in May 1942. The fleet had two aircraft carriers, the HMS Illustrious and HMS Indomitable as well as the battleship HMS Ramillies, an obsolete hull of the British Home Fleet.[12] After reconnaissance overflights by the South African Air Force and naval shelling, the first amphibious assaults were undertaken by British troops of the 29th Independent Infantry Brigade Group and No. 5 Commando who came ashore in landing crafts in northern Madagascar, just west of Diego Suarez. The 17th Infantry Brigade landed shortly after

TD

 

Hello Kim,

I do have a copy of A HISTORY of the 58th 39-45 2nd Battalion The Northamptonshire Regiment. Printed in England at the Wellington Press Gale & Polden Limited Aldershot 1947. I have scanned most of the 150 or so pages. I also have the War Diary of 2 Northamptons WO 174-1445 Jan-Jul 44. If you wish to start a conversation with me, then we might be able to sort something out?

Regards,
Stu.

 

The Battalion briefly went to India after Madagascar but they were not active there. Although the Regimental history says that 'general health was good', I can definitely remember my grandfather (who was RSM at the time) saying that many had contracted malaria and other tropical diseases in Madagascar and that they were quarantined in India as there was a worry that the locals and other troops would not be resistant.