11th RHA at Outpost Snape?

Discussion in 'North Africa & the Med' started by SteveB, Feb 28, 2023.

  1. SteveB

    SteveB Member

    Hi
    I'm not getting clear answers from a Google search as to whether 239/11th RHA were at Outpost Snipe with the Rifle Brigade on 27th October 1942 or in a supporting role.
    Can anyone clarify?
    Thanks
    Steve
     
    Last edited: Feb 28, 2023
  2. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Do you mean Outpost Snipe ?

    A fair bit of info here.
    Outpost Snipe

    See the images from BFBSM
    "Images from The Rifle Brigade 1939-1945 by Major RHWS Hastings (Gale & Polden, 1950)."
     
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  3. SteveB

    SteveB Member

    Thanks Owen, I did indeed .
    Thanks for the link, the scans of the Rifle Brigade history confirm 239 battery were there. So I'm happy, thanks for your help
    Steve

     
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  4. BFBSM

    BFBSM Very Senior Member

    Well that saves me looking in the history, unfortunately it does not distract me from my housework!
     
  5. SteveB

    SteveB Member

    Haha, go on, put some elbow grease into it


     
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  6. TTH

    TTH Senior Member

    Outpost Snape...wasn't that north of Ravenclaw Ridge?
     
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  7. BFBSM

    BFBSM Very Senior Member

    Yes, it gets mentioned in Harry Potter and the Desert Wind, the little known volume covering Harry’s honeymoon with Ginny.
     
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  8. 51highland

    51highland Very Senior Member

    Can't be Snape, my old Dad and his Liverpool Scottish mates spent many a night on guard on the Bridge over the river Alde, 1940.
     

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  9. Andreas

    Andreas Working on two books

    House allocations:

    Gryffindor - Empire
    Ravenclaw - Americans
    Slitherin - Germans
    Hufflepuff - Italians

    All the best

    Andreas
     
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  10. SteveB

    SteveB Member

    Sorry for the typo in the subject header. Can't work out how to amend it. It's definitely Snipe I was asking about
     
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  11. 51highland

    51highland Very Senior Member

    No problem admin have changed it.
     
  12. 51highland

    51highland Very Senior Member

    oops no they haven't. Had a senior moment.
     
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