Thank you very much! I’ll post more information this week that maybe will help clarify some things cheers
Hi max, do you have a specific date and location for the 467 disbanding? Someone posted earlier that it was 8 September 1944 but that leaves a month of my grand dad’s time unaccounted for. Thanks
Jeremy I don't have anything more authoritative. Dave quotes the lineage book as saying Sep 44. My man went to No 2 Gen Hospital which was in Caserta on 24 Oct 44. the part two order that recorded that was from 467 Battery so my assumption was that the battery was disbanded in October. The war diary goes Jun - Oct 44. I would like to see the war diary before being confident about the end date.
Thanks! It looks like my grand dad went from the 467 to the fusiliers 10 October 44, then by March 45 was with hq 2nd parachute, assigned to the 5th Scottish para regiment...
when i put these 2 documents together, it started to make for an interesting story! then with his detailed service records and lots of research, have been trying to fill in the gaps i still have lots of questions but overall, i think i can at least give my dad a basic outline of what his dad was up to during the war... my main question is: what did the 467 battery LAA do from gibraltar to disbandment, and what were the lancashire fusiliers (2Bn as part of the 78th infantry division, i believe) dealing with from oct 1944-jan 45? gothic line maybe? Max or anyone else, i'm open to ideas and i still have more records scanned in but unsure where to put them...the thread that was suggested is a dead end. cheers
The entry recording the move from Gib on 27 Feb 44 is identical, and in the same hand, to the one in the record I have been looking at. I note also that the record of him going to the Lancashire Fusiliers is recorded by 467 Battery on 10 October giving more support to the thought that the battery was not disbanded until that month. I know it sounds like a stuck gramophone record but the answer, unless someone knows of a detailed history, is to get the war diaries. 467 Battery Light Anti-Aircraft Batteries : 467 Bty. | The National Archives Light Anti-Aircraft Batteries : 467 Bty. | The National Archives The bits of the record you have posted don't say which battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers he transferred to. Both the 11th and 2nd Battalion fought in Italy - do you have other info that confirms his battalion? Once that is clear, then the correct war diary can be identified. The photo by the way was taken when he was serving with the Royal Artillery in Gib by the look of the backdrop. Max
In my recent research I had only come across the 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers because of a Victoria Cross recipient who was in Italy in may I believe ...I’ll have to read more about the 11th now and I’ll look closer at his records. But yes, the war diaries would be great. I just have to figure out how to get them from over here in Canada...thanks Max!
