4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, 8th Armoured - 1944

I know, it's one of the reasons I sell war diaries so I can reinvest the money into books as they are otherwise beyond my pay grade. Keep looking sometimes a cheap one pops up now and then.

 

Hi Sam.

I am researching my mother-in-law's second cousin, Wilfred worton. He was in the 4/7 rdg, 8th armoured. Bed was in A Squadron. Please can you tell me where you obtained your photo from - was it sent home from the front in ww2? Thanks Michelle

 

Michelle

Sam hasn't visited the Forum for some time so I suggest you send a 'Conversation' message.

I note you have also posted your request on Facebook where you are getting some good responses. I think I was the chap who posted about the Creully Club but that was some years ago and I don't think their web site is currently maintained. For information, there is still a commemoration held at the 4/7RDG Memorial in Creully at, I believe, 11am on every 6th June.

 

Thank you sdp. Yes I did search for the cruelly club but as you say there is no website that I can see. I will send a nessage to Sam. Yes Facebook is fast becoming a great source for my question but I am so enjoying reading the other posts too. Thank you x

 

Hi Sam, My Uncle was Robert Arthur Armstrong, my dads older brother. I don't know if you found out what you was looking for? my Aunt Jo has some things relating to the day Raymond & Robert died.

 

I just had a brief gander at archive.org but I could not find an archived copy of the Cruelly Club site. Does anyone remember the URL?

edit: right after posting that, I found a link. http://www.creullyclub.freeuk.com/

This looks to have been the last archived copy on archive.org (click on the title to enter)


Welcome to the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards Association - The Creully Club

 

An ex-24th Lancer - died of wounds with the 4th/7th RDG - 28d9m1944...

Casualty Details | CWGC

TROOPER LEONARD FRANK ORR
Service Number: 7961101
Regiment & Unit/Ship: Royal Armoured Corps. 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards
Date of Death: Died 28 September 1944
Age 21 years old
Buried or commemorated at ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY
8. C. 1. Netherlands
Country of Service: United Kingdom
Additional Info: Son of L. F. Orr, and of Alice Orr, of Monkseaton, Northumberland.
Personal Inscription: "HE LEADETH ME BESIDE THE STILL WATERS. HE RESTORETH MY SOUL"

DW - died of wounds - 28d9m1944...

And initially listed as Trooper L.R. Orr here...



This, in the London Gazette, First World War...
SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 24 OCTOBER, 1919, 12997
Ordre de Leopold II. avec Croix de Guerre. Chevalier.
295715 Artillery Clerk Bombardier (acting Serjeant-Major) Leonard Frank Orr, 11th Corps Headquarters, Royal Artillery (Whitley Bay).

I think was perhaps his father - or "just" - coincidence - in name... ;-)

* His father is listed on his grave as F.L.Orr - Monkseaton, Northumberland - near Whitley Bay...