236/59th Anti-Tank Regt. R.A. 43rd Wessex Div.

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  1. Niven

    Niven Junior Member

    Hi, I've only just joined and hence I am trying to get used to the forum.

    My father, Gnr Richard Nash was in the 236/59th Anti-Tank Regt. R.A. 43rd Wessex Division. He loved motor-bikes and was acting as a despatch rider in and around Nijmegen when he was killed on 10 October 1944. He is buried at the Jonkerbos War Cemetery in Nijmegen.

    I have some interesting photo's which I will post shortly.

    Does anyone have any information on the 236/59th Anti-Tank Regt. R.A. or the 43rd Wessex Division at that time and place?
     
  2. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    The National Archives have the units war diary for 1944:

    WO 171/917 59 Regt. Jan-Dec 1944.

    Regards
    Andy
     
  3. 4jonboy

    4jonboy Daughter of a 56 Recce

    Hello and welcome

    Lesley
     
  4. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

  5. Buteman

    Buteman 336/102 LAA Regiment (7 Lincolns), RA

    Hi and welcome Niven.

    Gunner RICHARD HARRY NASH
    1545481, 59 (6th Bn. The Hampshire Regt.) Anti-Tank Regt., Royal Artillery
    who died age 26
    on 10 October 1944
    Son of Harry and Elizabeth Emma Nash; husband of Mary Christina Nash, of Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire.
    Remembered with honour
    JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY

    (Photo from the Sanguinius set on Flikr)

    http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=51330&d=1306325382

    (Photo from Forum Member CL1)

    Commemorated in Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire.

    http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/attachments/searching-someone-military-genealogy/44646d1296498364-royal-artillery-roll-honour-1939-47-r-h-nash-royal-artillery-large-jpg
     
  6. Philip Reinders

    Philip Reinders Very Senior Member

  7. Buteman

    Buteman 336/102 LAA Regiment (7 Lincolns), RA

    Nice photo of Richard Nash on your site Philip.
     

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