I am attempting to trace my fathers locations during WW2. I have his Service Record from the Army and have significant detail about his time with the 51st HAA from 1936 (he was in the TA) untill September 1943 when he was transferred from Italy back to UK. Then he was posted to 113 HAA (366 Battery) in Poole, Dorset. He remained with this unit for the Normandy invasion. I would to know where this Regiment was deployed from D-day until November 1944 (thanks to Philip Reinders I know something of his time in Holland). The I also know that after the 113 HAA was disbanded in April 1945, he was redeployed to 308 EADCU at Lubeck until he was released from service in October 1945. Any help fom members would be appreciated.
Best to look at their war diary . If you can't visit Kew in person there are members on here who will copy it for you for a reasonable fee. WO 171/1158 113 Regt. 1944 Jan.- Dec. 113 Regt. War Office: Allied Expeditionary Force, North West Europe (British Element): War Diaries, Second World War. ROYAL ARTILLERY. Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiments. 113 Regt. Held by: The National Archives - War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies Date: 1944 Reference: WO 171/1158 Subjects: Conflict | Armed Forces (General Administration) | Europe and Russia | Army | Operations, battles and campaigns | Diaries
113 HAA was part of the defences of the Gold Beach BMA. The grid references are the wartime grid and can be found on this map. http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/maps/europe/4998624u7eu6u1942.html
Thank you Owen and Sheldrake for the information and advice. It looks like a trip to Kew which will be a new experience. I have quite a bit of information on my Fathers war experience with the 51st HAA (RA), incuding his own diary written during siege of Tobruk which may be of interest to other members of this group. Perhaps when my research is complete it would be appropriate to post some aspects for WW2Talk? Thanks again.
hello, we found old photographs from the grandpa of my wife, there is a picture of a young soldier, we think it is given to our granddad when he was just a kid below the age of 10 at the end of the war.
