Wyndham Dennis Selwood 2nd Battalion South Wales Borderers

Hello I have joined this site in the hope of getting help to find out about my granddad's war records as no one really knows much because he didn't talk about the war to my mam and uncle. I cant ask him because he is dead now so any help would be great.

Here is the info that I know

Wyndham Dennis Selwood
Private
14659292
2nd battalion south wales borderers

Thanks in advance.

 

Welcome to the forum
Apply for his service records for starters link below
https://www.gov.uk/requests-for-personal-data-and-service-records

Regards
Clive

 

Hello Taff,

Going off your granddad's service number he must have been 19 or 20 years old in 1944?

If so, he would have missed out on the Norwegian Campaign [1940], but he may well have landed on Gold Beach on D-Day - 6 June 1944.

By this time the 2nd Bn South Wales Borderers were brigaded with 2nd Bn Essex Regiment and 2nd Bn Gloucester Regiment, 56th Infantry Brigade, 50th (Northumbrian) Division. They were with 50 Div for the purposes of the landings and the fighting in Normandy thereafter. They were in the second wave behind 231st Infantry Brigade.

On circa 11 August they moved from 50 Div to 59 Div and on 20 August from 59 Div to 49 Div - the 49th (West Riding) Division, where they remained for the duration of WWII. Their war finished in Germany, where they remained as occupation forces until 1948.

I hope this assists.

Best,

Steve.

 

Hello both thanks for getting back to me with all the information, I will send away for his service records to see what comes back. I didn't know you could get that much info just from his army number thanks very much, now I got the info I need to start finding out what he did.

Thanks again.

 

Just to confirm your assumption Steve

England & Wales, Birth Index, 1916-2005 about Wyndham D Selwood
Name: Wyndham D Selwood
Mother's Maiden Surname: Coldrick
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1925
Registration district: Pontypool
Inferred County: Wales
Volume Number: 11a
Page Number: 340

England & Wales, Death Index, 1916-2007 about Wyndham Dennis Selwood
Name: Wyndham Dennis Selwood
Birth Date: 22 Jun 1925
Date of Registration: Aug 2005
Age at Death: 80
Registration district: Newport
Inferred County: Glamorgan, Monmouthshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire
Register Number: A89C
District and Subdistrict: 836/1A
Entry Number: 76

 

The information above is correct that's my granddad.

 

Do you have a photo of your grandfather you could post? I have a vague recollection of the name Selwood so either my grandfather knew him or he was at a reunion in Brecon. My grandfather seemed to know everyone particularly if they had been a Borderer living around Blackwood area