2nd Wiltshire Regiment.

Jim45 · 09-10-2006, 10:41 AM

My father is in some photo's of the 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment, I'm led to believe in India. Has anyone any info of when they were there or any other info on the regiment in WW2.
Regards
Jim.

Kiwiwriter · 09-10-2006, 06:47 PM

I believe the 2nd Wilts escaped from Dunkirk with the 2nd Division, which went out to India from there. I hope that helps.

Good luck with your quest, and thank you for joining us and for your father's service to Crown and Country.

Owen · 13-10-2006, 08:43 AM

edit, wrong info given

Kiwiwriter · 13-10-2006, 05:12 PM

I sit corrected....it was the West Kents I was thinking of.

Jim45 · 05-11-2006, 07:04 PM

I was given the wrong info by a family member and these photo's are in India but in the late 1920s. I have printed what was on the back on the front from those with writing. It now seems my father was in the 44th L.AA. R.A in WW2 and was entitled to wear the Burma Star. I have been given his service book which is very battered, I have scanned it and will upload it if anyone could help with the info in it I would be grateful.
Regards
Jim

Rich Payne · 05-11-2006, 09:40 PM

Nice pictures, Jim, especially with the vintage signalling equipment. I can't offer to help with decoding the Service record, but I am incurably nosey so I'd love to see it !

I'm sure that the knowledge will be here to decipher it.

Rich.

Owen · 06-11-2006, 10:22 AM

Thanks for posting photos Jim.
Have you sent copies to The Wardrobe?

Jim45 · 06-11-2006, 10:44 AM

Good idea, Owen
I'll do it later

Jim.

Owen · 06-11-2006, 11:01 AM

I've some info from Kenrick's History of The Wiltshire Regt about the 2nd Bn time in India.

Jim45 · 06-11-2006, 12:49 PM

This is the battered Service Book of my father, what I would like to find out where he was in 1944. There is more to it but with next of kin details etc. Why some of the dates have been altered I don't know. He died in his sleep on Christmas Day in 1973. I was scanning the book etc and my 9 year old grandson asked about him dying I told him he went to sleep and didn't wake up and he replied "So he's having a never ending dream then ", never thought of it like that.
Are there any other documents I can get to find out where he was in 1944. As stated he was in Barrackpore in January 1944 and he had an injection in the June of 1944, but was he still in Barrackpore. I know he had injuries from an explosion and he went deaf for approx 2 years, and he may have been in hospital in the Cardiff area. But I don't know the dates.
Jim

09-10-2006, 10:41 AM	#1 (permalink)
Jim45 Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 9	2nd Wiltshire Regiment. My father is in some photo's of the 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment, I'm led to believe in India. Has anyone any info of when they were there or any other info on the regiment in WW2. Regards Jim.

09-10-2006, 06:47 PM	#2 (permalink)
Kiwiwriter Very Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Newark, NJ, and Christchurch, NZ Posts: 2,431	2nd Wilts I believe the 2nd Wilts escaped from Dunkirk with the 2nd Division, which went out to India from there. I hope that helps. Good luck with your quest, and thank you for joining us and for your father's service to Crown and Country. __________________ "My intensity is intense." -- Roger Clemens "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." -- Winston Churchill. "I am not a hero. The heroes are all dead. I am a survivor." -- Sgt. William Guarnere, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Check out my little contributions to World War II history at my web pages: World War II Plus 55 or http://davidhlippman.wildbillguarnere.com

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Owen Grumpy Old Moose Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs Posts: 9,485	edit, wrong info given Last edited by Owen; 06-07-2007 at 01:46 AM.

13-10-2006, 05:12 PM	#4 (permalink)
Kiwiwriter Very Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Newark, NJ, and Christchurch, NZ Posts: 2,431	I sit corrected....it was the West Kents I was thinking of. __________________ "My intensity is intense." -- Roger Clemens "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." -- Winston Churchill. "I am not a hero. The heroes are all dead. I am a survivor." -- Sgt. William Guarnere, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Check out my little contributions to World War II history at my web pages: World War II Plus 55 or http://davidhlippman.wildbillguarnere.com Last edited by Owen; 06-07-2007 at 01:47 AM.

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05-11-2006, 09:40 PM	#6 (permalink)
Rich Payne Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 737	Nice pictures, Jim, especially with the vintage signalling equipment. I can't offer to help with decoding the Service record, but I am incurably nosey so I'd love to see it ! I'm sure that the knowledge will be here to decipher it. Rich.

06-11-2006, 10:22 AM	#7 (permalink)
Owen Grumpy Old Moose Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs Posts: 9,485	Thanks for posting photos Jim. Have you sent copies to The Wardrobe?

06-11-2006, 10:44 AM	#8 (permalink)
Jim45 Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 9	Good idea, Owen I'll do it later Jim.

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