Anyone with any connection to 9th Medium Regiment RA on this forum? I have written their history but always on the look out for new information or photos or documents. Any contact with veterans would also be fantastic (though unlikely now).
Yes we have. I read you have finished your history of the 10th. Would love a copy when ready. Cheers.
I have put together a website about the regiment, which includes a download of the history I have written. The aim is for this to be an online archive of all the stuff I have amassed over 10 years of research. It is still work in progress, but any feedback is welcome. I am still looking to contact anyone with a connection to the regiment. Anthony www.9thmediumregimentra.com
I served in the 9th Medium Regiment, in the troop command post of C troop,82 Battery, from Normandy to Germany. I was probably about the youngest man in the regiment then and am now 89, so i suppose there are not so many of us left.
I have replied as follows to your other posting: "I served in the 9th Medium Regiment, in the troop command post of C troop,82 Battery, from Normandy to Germany. I was probably about the youngest man in the regiment then and am now 89, so i suppose there are not so many of us left." I have downloaded your history of the regiment and look forward to reading it. I am wondering why you call yourself Giberville. We had the command post in the cellar of a general store there for a week or so up to Operation Totalise (7 August, if I remember right) after which we were moving every day (unusual for Medium guns).
Hello and welcome. Lovely to have you here on the forum Have you any photos you could post please? Lesley
Hi & welcome. Nice to see you here, another 9AGRA regt. Are you intouch with Giberville who has the history & archive of the regt? Best Rob
Waysider, Just seen this post, and I am very keen to get in touch with you.I have sent you a personal message. I think we might have a lot to talk about! Giberville is a location of the regiment in the battle for Normandy, and quite a lot happened here, as you are well aware. It is a place I have visited several times during my research...it just became an 'identity' on the forum. Your memory serves you well because from here the regiment supported Totalize. Oddly, in all the years I have researched the regiment no veterans from 82 Battery have been tracked down - you are the first. Anthony
Anthony, great site, I have not read the history in full yet but scanning through I noticed you mention loss of Signalman Warner 21/07/1944 who was from Chippenham,Wiltshire. I am yet to research him in fully, would you be interested in anything that I find in the future? Nick
Thanks for the feedback on the site. Yes, I would be interested in any information you dig up. I found out that he was shot by a sentry but have no details as to the incident. Many years ago I did write to the local library asking if any obituary or report appeared in the local paper but no luck. This sometimes turns up something interesting. Regards Anthony
Rob, Now in touch with 'Waysider'. Really appreciate you pointing him in the right direction. Regards Anthony
Well done Anthony, i know the feeling you get when in contact with a new veteran or relative of the regt. Have just found the son of the BSM 83Bty, with lots of doc's & pic's Best Rob
Rob, Indeed, I had given up hope, especially of contacting a veteran! This is special because, quite strangely, all the veterans I found over the years were from 81 Battery. This is the first from 82 and as you will know the two parts of the regiment operated almost independently. I am hoping for a new perspective, and answers to the questions I have... Anthony
I have just seen these posts. I remember somebody being shot by a sentry one night in July 1944 when we were at St Manvieu. I do not know his name but I thought he was a despatch rider from RHQ but could be quite wrong about that. I was in C Troop command post with the Gun Position Officer, Mr Cross, when we heard a shot. Some time later a voice called in from above "Could you come up a moment, sir?" Cross replied "Who have you shot?" He went up and I was not involved in what happened later. It had been another man, an experienced soldier, who called down on behalf of the unfortunate sentry whose gun had gone off by mistake. The story was that he was a cook who had hardly ever handled a rifle before. I don't think he was in C Troop and, after 70 years, am not sure of the facts, but I vividly remember it. Waysider
Waysider, This is certainly Signalman Warner, who was with the signals section attached to RHQ. He was shot by a sentry on the 21st July at Manvieu. I know he is buried in the cemetery at Bayeux. He could well of been a despatch rider as you recall. I do not have any further details as the War Diary is silent on this one. Therefore, your memories are invaluable in trying to piece together what happened. I wonder what became of the soldier who shot him - what a terrible thing to have to come to terms with. Anthony
Hello, Giberville. I'm a bit late to this party but thought you may like to know that one of my Grandad's brothers served with 9th Med. Regt. RA. - 2182069 Gnr. Samuel (Sammy) Mulcahy. 81st Bty. 9th Med. Regt. RA. Sammy was born on 28th April 1909 at Princes Street, Fermoy, Co. Cork. His date of enlistment is given as 7th September 1939 (in 1939 the Mulcahy family were living at Kingston upon Thames, Surrey) & his date of discharge is given as 6th November 1945. Sammy was awarded The 1939-45 Star, France & Germany Star, The Defence Medal, 1939-45 War Medal. He had two brothers killed during the war - L/Bdr.Thomas Mulcahy (a RA DEMS gunner) was killed in January 1944 aged 19 & L/Cpl. Henry Mulcahy was killed at Imphal in June 1944 aged 22 whilst serving with 2nd Border Regt. Sammy Mulcahy died at Addlestone, Surrey in the mid 1980s. I don't have any photos or any other info on Sammy's war service but I hope this adds a little something to the information you have gathered on 9th Med.Regt. Regards. Dixie.
Dixie, Welcome aboard. You may be in luck Giberville was last logged in in February '25 and Rob Dickers same month in '24. I will send them both a Private Message (PM) to alert them to your post. You can create a PM only after x5 posts. Are you going to research your uncle Sammy?
