Cpl. Gilbert C. Bayliss, A Squadron 46th RTR supports 5th Gren. Guards, Anzio 26/01/1944?

I started this thread in 'The Brigade of Guards', but I've now deleted it and moved it hear to 'RAC & RTR' since the named individual I'm interested in was in the 46th RTR (but allegedly supporting some Grenadier Guards in one particular battle).

Please can anyone help me confirm an unsubstantiated claim of a single Sherman tank commanded by a Corporal Gilbert C. Bayliss from A Squadron 46th Royal Tank Regiment in support of 5th Battalion Grenadier Guards at Aprilia on the Anzio beachhead on 26th January 1944...?

There was definitely a Corporal Gilbert C. Bayliss in A Squadron of 46th Royal Tank Regiment, as he shared some of his wartime reminiscences with a BBC wartime memories project including this from the Anzio beachhead:

BBC - WW2 People's War - The Kissing Cup: 46th Royal Tank Regiment at Anzio

However, The History of the Grenadier Guards in the War of 1939 to 1945 by Nigel Nicolson gives no reference to a single Sherman in support of 5th Battalion during this battle never mind giving the name of the tank commander.

I can find no dedicated history of 46th RTR and no published memoir by Gilbert Bayliss (despite his contributions to the BBC website).

Neither Ian Blackwell's Battleground Europe guide book on Anzio nor Brigadier C J. C. Moloy's British official history of the war in Mediterranean, nor the general accounts of Anzio by Lloyd Clark, Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, and William L. Allen provide any reference to a single Sherman in support of 5th Grenadier Guards.

- If any of those single volume accounts might have delivered a personal reference to Gilbert Bayliss and his Sherman tank, then I would have bet on Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, because he was a BBC war correspondent present at the Anzio beachhead.

 

War diaries held at TNA Kew may have some refs within, perhaps in Appendices.

46 Royal Tank Regiment | The National Archives
Reference: WO 170/860
Description: 46 Royal Tank Regiment
Date: 1944 Jan.- July, Oct.- Dec.

5 Grenadier Guards | The National Archives
Reference: WO 170/1350
Description: 5 Grenadier Guards
Date: 1944 Jan-Dec

 

Hi

A Sqn, 46 RTRs report on that period can be found at 65 pages of 46 Bn. ROYAL TANK REGIMENT( FROM 1 JUNE- 30 JUNE 44).

Hope this helps

Gus