This soldier I believe also served with the Gloucester Regiment and was Mentioned in Dispatches in the London Gazette 20 December 1940. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35020/supplement/7188/data.pdf I am making an assumption that he served with the 5th Battalion Gloucester Regiment and served with then after they converted to 43 Recce. Can anyone help me confirm this? Many thanks Mark
This soldier I believe served with the Gloucester Regiment with the B.E.F. and was Mentioned in Dispatches in the London Gazette 20 December 1940. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35020/supplement/7188/data.pdf I am making an assumption that he served with the 5th Battalion Gloucester Regiment and served with then after they converted to 43 Recce. Can anyone help me confirm this? Many thanks Mark
His service records will be the way to go, they should have this detail. His service number confirms that he enlisted with the Gloucestershire Regiment.
I have now managed to confirm that Tpr W J Newman served with 43 Recce. He is listed in a newspaper article outlining the war service of the unit. (The Citizen 21March 1945). He lived at 50 Stanway Road , Gloucester.
Amongst the original marriage/birth certificates relating to Tpr Newman were two photos. The first shown here pictures two NCOs the one on the right serving with the Gloucester Regiment. I believe it to be Newman. The entry for his MiD shows him as a Sergeant and this pre/ early war photo shows him as a Cpl.
The second photo shows the two NCOs from the first photo (standing on the extreme right) with a group of soldiers from the Gloucester Regiment with some gifts from the readers of the Citizen.
