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31-08-2006, 06:14 PM
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| Member   Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Dublin
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 | 8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars Quote:
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22-01-2007, 01:49 PM
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| Member  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Sheffield / Nottingham, UK
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 | Hi, Does anyone have a war diary for the 6th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment, or similar information, specifically for the period from 1939 until Dunkirk? I have done an internet search on the national archives website, but the only downloads I can find are WW1 documents. Many thanks, Rich. |
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22-01-2007, 02:21 PM
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| Legendary Member   Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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He was posted to the 8th Kings's Royal Irish Hussars in Egypt on 6th January 1937. When the Mobile Division was formed in 1938 the 8th Hussars was one of the original units that formed what was then called 'The Light Armoured Brigade'. They then became one of the founders of the 7th Armoured Division - ‘The Desert Rats’ in December 1939. and took part in the British offensive in late 1940 which re-captured Sidi Barrani and Bardia from the Italians and then in February 1941, the decisive battle of Beda Fomm, which lead to the capture of most of the Italian forces in North Africa at the time. In March 1941 the 8th Hussars saw brief service in Greece before returning to North Africa as part of the Ist Armoured Division. July 1941 found the 8th Hussars back as part of the 4th Armoured Brigade with which they then fought during Operation Crusader, suffering heavy casualties when attacked in the rear by the 15th Panzer Division, which left them with just eight Honey Tanks fit for battle, with 35 having been captured in this engagement. After a re-fit the 8th Hussars were once again part of the 4th Armoured Brigade with which it served during the Gazala battles of May and June 1942, suffering heavy losses at Bir Hacheim, where once again they were almost annihilated showing amazing bravery before withdrawing with the rest of the 8th Army to El Alamein.
__________________ Spidge,  ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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22-01-2007, 11:22 PM
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| Ubique   Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent/France
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__________________ The WW2 Society: Remembering those from Britain & The Commonwealth who served 1939-45 - http://www.battlefieldsww2.50megs.com/ww2_society.htm | |
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23-01-2007, 10:37 AM
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I will have to make my way to the National Archives at some point. Rich. | |
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07-11-2007, 11:49 AM
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| Top Moose  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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 | Been out to a small unit in a farmyard out near Cricklade. Welcome to Aviabooks Second Hand Books To buy this, C.N. Barclay. The History of the 53rd (Welsh) Division in the Second World War. |
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07-11-2007, 12:19 PM
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| I love WW2 meah!!!   Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Middlesbrough, UK
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| Sounds like a good book Owen. That's the type of thing I'm after. Gonna go on a spending spree at the end of the month I think. I'll be asking for some recommendations just before. Watch this space. |
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07-11-2007, 03:05 PM
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| Very Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: just around the corner
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I have a copy of 'Craftsmen of the Army, the Story of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers' There is some brief mention of operations in Burma and SEAC, nothing specific, it mainly deals with training and setting up the of the Indian version, IEME.
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31-03-2008, 10:49 PM
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| Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Cullercoats Tyne and Wear
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| my grandfather Kenneth Joseph harrison fus. 3133174 dob 25/04/17 he was attached to 2nd Bat royal scots fusiliers 5th Div as a bren gun carrier driver if you had any info i would be very greatfull  |
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