Hi, my post name is Muttonlancer an old nick name for The Queen's Royal (West Surrey) Regiment whos museum I was curator of for over 10 years and where i am still a volunteer although the museum was destroyed by fire in 2015 3 months after I retired so my interest is in that regiment. I am very happy to help where I can with my knowledge of WW1 better than WW2.
Hi Muttonlancer & welcome to the forum. I was saddened to see the fire & damage to the RWS collection at Clandon Park in 2015. Am sure your kind offer to help forum members will the regiment will be very welcome. Travers
I was a regular National Trust visitor to Clandon and would always include a visit to the museum, so sorry when the fire happened. Welcome to the forum.
Many thanks for your welcome and I am always happy to help where I can as I am sure we can all learn from each other, regards Ian
Welcome to the forum. I've been researching the 2/5th in 1940 for about 10 years now so also nice to see new faces on the forum.
I knew several 2/5th men who spent over 5 years in captivity and on the regiments website www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk under Buried Battles and Veterans voices section you can hear some of their stories from when I interviewed them some years ago Buried battles and Veterans' Voices. My uncle Dennis was in 2/7th during 1940 and I had several conversations with him as to how he swam the Somme to get away and in doing so lost his clothes and ended up stealing clothes off of peoples washing lines and he got out in a fishing boat from Cherbourg.
Welcome to this happy band. My cousin joined 14th Battalion of The Queen’s in July 1940, which was converted to 99th Regiment LAA in late 1941, something you are doubtless very aware of. Later in the war I believe the 99th was reconverted to infantry and he, along with his mates, was transferred back to The Queen’s and then to 1st Battalion, The Buffs, with whom, sadly, he was killed at Lake Comacchio in April ‘45.