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31-10-2007, 12:10 AM
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 | Brigadier Sheil Brigadier William Anthony* Sheil was on the General Staff, and originally in the Royal Artillery. He is buried at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, having died on 29th April, 1945. Can anyone suggest how I can find out anything about him? Without a unit to follow up, I don't know where to start. The C.W.G.C. site gives no family details and not even his age. Thanks, Belville
__________________ "Let those who come after see to it that their names be not forgotten" Irish war memorials Last edited by Belville; 01-11-2007 at 12:10 AM. Reason: *I omitted his forenames! |
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31-10-2007, 04:33 AM
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__________________ 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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31-10-2007, 12:00 PM
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| Brigadier William Anthony Sheil The following details are on the Army Roll of Honour 1939-45. DEATH AT BRANCH - Other Corp REGIMENT/CORP - Staff, (Colonels & above), except: RAMC,RAOC,REME & RAPC BRANCH AT 1/9/39 - Royal Artillery REGIMENT/CORP - Royal Artillery SURNAME - Sheil CHRISTIAN NAME - William INTIALS - W.A. CBE, DSO & bar RANK - Brigadier NUMBER - 1141 BORN - EIRE RESIDENCE - Wiltshire DATE DIED - 29/4/45 THEATRE OF WAR - Western Europe Campaign, 1944-45. I hope this helps.
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31-10-2007, 03:10 PM
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| Found this in the Gazette. Thurs 21 Oct 1943 Bar to D.S.O. Major(temp Lt - Col) William Anthony Sheil D.S.O. (1141) Royal Regiment of Artillery (res of OFF) (Consilla, Co Dublin) Sounds like the same man
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31-10-2007, 03:19 PM
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| Clonsilla? Thats where my dad is from. Is that his place of birth?
__________________ "The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse." - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino) |
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01-11-2007, 12:03 AM
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| Many thanks, everyone. That's a lot more information than I had before. It explains why he is on a war memorial in Dublin, too. If anyone has any more ideas, do please send them in. Michael
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01-11-2007, 07:50 PM
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17-07-2008, 07:41 AM
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| Brigadier W A Sheil The Times of 21 November 1934 reports that, on the occasion of the state opening of Parliament, Capt W A Sheil commanded F Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, which fired a 41-gun salute in St James’s Park. |
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