24th Lancers - Roll of Honour

Trooper A.H.G. Amor - 7957134

HQ Squadron of the 24th Lancers

An unposted reinforcement attached to 256 ADS on the disbandment of the 24th Lancers.

 

Re. Trooper J. Buckley - 7902750

"A" Squadron of the 24th Lancers

Wounded with the 24th Lancers in Normandy - 15d7m1944

 

Re. WS/SSM R. Shelton - 401045

"B" Squadron of the 24th Lancers

Wounded with the 24th Lancers in Normandy - 13d7m1944

 

Re. Trooper A.J. Brownhill - 553132

Driver/wireless operator in "C" Squadron of the 24th Lancers.

Wounded in Normandy with the 24th Lancers.

 

Re. WO1 Gordon Woodward...

Obituary: 9th-12th-Lancers_2005_0079.jpg - The Royal Lancers Museum at Derby

 

Trooper J.P. Rowe, (319002)

Referenced as an ex-9th Lancer here...

Regimental-Histories_1936-1945 Bright_409.jpg - The Royal Lancers Museum at Derby

Prior to D-Day he was a Driver/mechanic in "B" Squadron 24th L.

He appears to have been promoted to be an acting corporal in Normandy and to be on the 24th's Nominal roll at disbandment as going to the 37 RHU.

 

Re. Roland Stanton Benjamin, GREENHILL (201377)...

24th Lancers War Diary

25/9/41 The following Officers were posted to this Regiment from 51st Training Regiment RAC:- 2/Lieuts, R.A.Cook, C.W.A.Coulson, R.S.Greenhill, D.M.Howard, D.Middleton, J.L.M.Normansell, P.A.Weathers, E.A.A.Webb, R.S.P.Thursten.

And....
22/10/41 The following Officers to 54th and 57th Training Regiments:-
2/Lt.J.L.M.Normansell, D.Middleton, R.S.Thursten, D.M.Howard, R.S.Greenhill, C.W.A.Coulson, E.A.Cook.

The London Gazette has...
Roland Stanton Benjamin, GREENHILL (201377)
SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 26 AUGUST, 1941 p4943
The Nottinghamshire Yeo. (T.A.)
Roland Stanton Benjamin, GREENHILL (201377)

Notices | All Notices | The Gazette...

 

Remembering today...

Trooper Gordon Sidney Arthur Hallett, 14318820

Formerly a tank gunner in "B" Squadron of the 24th Lancers.
At the disbandment of the 24th Lancers he was transferred to the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry.

Initially it appears that he was reported as wounded with the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, however he later appears in the CWGC records...

Date of Death - 2d11m1944

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/f...details/2766329/gordon-sidney-arthur-hallett/

TROOPER GORDON SIDNEY ARTHUR HALLETT
Service Number: 14318820
Regiment : Royal Armoured Corps, 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry
Date of Death: 02 November 1944
Age 20 years old
Buried or commemorated at MAARHEEZE (STERKSEL MONASTERY) CEMETERY,
Row A. Grave 21. Netherlands
Country of Service: United Kingdom
Additional Info: Son of Albert Charles and Mabel Ellen Hallett, of Evesham, Worcestershire.
Personal Inscription:
IN PROUD & DEAREST MEMORY OF OUR BOY, NOW RESTING WHERE NO SHADOWS FALL

 

Re. Sergeant John "Barney" Barnett, 7886688...

Formerly "C" Squadron of the 24th Lancers.

He seems to have left the 24th Lancers, prior to the Normandy D-Day, since...

Military Medal with 2nd Lothians & Border Horse... 6d6m1944...
Recommendation for Award for Barnett, John Rank: Serjeant Service No: ... | The National Archives

Notices | All Notices | The Gazette...

 

Remembered on the Knighton war memorial Powis.

TROOPER FRANK GORDON WAGSTAFF
Service Number: 14339636
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Armoured Corps

24th Lancers.

Date of Death
Died 08 June 1944

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at
BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

XII. E. 21.

France

 

Here is a picture of my Grandpa William Armstrong 24th lancers royal armored corp

Lance Corporal Armstrong, William Currie - KIA 13d7m1944

 

Re. Gaston Jack Strowger, CBE (1916-2017)





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Church window remembers fishermen

 

Re. Trooper / Lance Corporal Joseph James Arno...

Gunner / Wireless operator in "A" Squadron of the 24th Lancers.
Transferred to 1RTR on the disbandment of the 24th Lancers.
Kia - 17d4m1945

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2107020/JOSEPH JAMES ARNO/
LANCE CORPORAL JOSEPH JAMES ARNO
Service Number: 7927851
Regiment : 1st Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.
Date of Death - Died 17 April 1945
Age 34 years old
Buried or commemorated at BECKLINGEN WAR CEMETERY, 5. C. 9. Germany
Country of Service - United Kingdom
Additional Info: Son of Joseph George and Lucy Jane Arno; husband of Joan Victoria Arno, of Hackney, London.

 

Bonjour.
Auriez vous des informations sur John Wilfried gillam ?
Caporal du b squadron du 24 lancers.
KIA la 8 juin.
Numéro de matricule : 7894274
Si vous avez des informations, vous pouvez me contacter au : 06 44 80 88 33
Merci beaucoup.
Antoine

 

Re. C. G. C. Robertson / Reverend Clement Gordon Cumpper Robertson - Army service number - 111491

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34764/supplement/10/data.pdf

He was the Chaplain of the 24th Lancers in 1940 - apparently - according to a later Newspaper source detailing his career - although given the inception of the 24L was in December 1940 that doesn't leave much of a "window" - for him in the role...




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This seems to place him as Vicar of Helpringham in December 1941 -

 

Re. Trooper / Corporal Wilfred John Gillman - 7894274
According to the contemporary Newspaper reports on his death he was late of the "Royal Gloucestershire Hussars"
Driver/wireless operator in "B" Squadron of the 24th Lancers.
Nb. He appears as having been in "C" Squadron in one list, but this was perhaps a typo.
Kia - 8d6m1944
Corporal Wilfred John Gillman | War Casualty Details 2627470 | CWGC
CORPORAL WILFRED JOHN GILLMAN
Service Number: 7894274
Regiment & Unit/Ship: Royal Armoured Corps. 'B' Sqn. 24th Lancers.
Date of Death: Died 08 June 1944
Age 24 years old
Buried or commemorated at BAYEUX MEMORIAL. Panel 8, Column 2. France
Country of Service: United Kingdom
Additional Info: Son of Wilfred Charles and Laurie Villar Gillman; nephew of B. B. Gillman, of Cirencester, Gloucestershire.



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See also - 24th Lancers - Roll of Honour

 

Capt. Saggers was in Semic when 3 men from my father’s B-24 crew arrived in July of 1944. They were airlifted out by C-47 on July24/25. Nels Benson was the OSS man in charge of the airstrip at Gajevi aka Donja Cemernica. Crew member John Hassan told me it was the same airstrip where Randolph Churchill and Evelyn Waugh were involved in the crash of a C-47 while they were in the area. The crewmen bailed out near Carole, Italy and walked into Slovenia and Croatia with the help of the friendly Italians and the Slovene Partisans. The attached escape statement mentions help from Major Nigel Watson(MI9?)and a Major Turner at a mission called Lockwood. If anyone has information about this mission I would like to learn more. Thank you!

 

There's a "9th Lancer" in - The Guns of Navarone...

The Guns of Navarone (novel) - Wikipedia

The Guns of Navarone (film) - Wikipedia

Major Roy Franklin - played by Anthony Quale... representing the 9th Lancers ;-)

He appears in the trailer, at around 45 seconds...



For reasons that don't appear to be explained, at least in the film itselt, but it was presumably a similar - albeit fictional - situation to that of Saggers and "special duties" etc.

 

Your best bet could almost certainly be to start a new thread entitled something like - "Any information on a mission called Lockwood?" - with perhaps an associated date i.e. mid 1944 etc. e.g. "Any information on a mission called Lockwood in 1944?" or similar.

All the best, Rm.