Royal Army Service Corps - Bridge company 147 Looking for any information anyone has around this company interested specifically in time around D day landings and august 19 44 as the company were returned around August 1944 and I don't know why
This is the only war diary reference I can find for ''147 coy RASC'' on TNA website. | The National Archives Reference:WO 171/2396 Description: 147 Coy. Date: 1944 Jan.- Dec. Held by: The National Archives, Kew War Office: Allied Expeditionary Force, North West Europe (British Element): War Diaries, Second World War. ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS. Companies. 147 Coy. Collection: Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies Date range: 01 January 1944 - 31 December 1944 Reference:WO 171/2396
Here's the others Owen couldn't find WO 166/9375 147 Company 1942 June-Dec. WO 166/13031 147 Company 1943 Jan.-Dec. WO 171/6209 147 Company 1945 Jan.-Oct. You sure they came back in August-The war diaries has the unit in Europe until Oct 1945. WO 171 is the NWE campaign files. At best I would say they came back as a unit for a month or so before going back. Either way it will be recorded in the diaries. Cheers Andy
My father was in this regiment as a driver. They travelled through Europe and was in the battle for the bridge too far at Arnhem. They were also cut off in a forest surrounded by Germans. He told me many stories and I have some photos of the regiment and a picture of them taking down the nazi flag. They may have come back for a very short while due to the weather conditions at sea as I remember my dad saying there was a sea crossing cancelled.
