Hello everyone, my dad was Recce Corps and I have his service history he started his service in the Nothants Regt and was the BEF at Dunkirk and when he got back from France he joined the new Recce Corp 4th Regiment. Sadly he died in May 1988 and I do not know a lot about his war service as he never spoke of it, so I am going to try and piece together who, where and what he did, so with a bit of help from you oracles, I might do it. Having read some of the treads here and after looking on the web for what the Corps did and of course the motto, The Recce Corps where extremely brave men. You never here any thing mentioned of them on any of the news reels etc do you? Regards Steve
Welcome to the forum Steve. The information I have for the 4th Reconnaissance Regiment is as follows: "The regiment was formed in January 1941, mainly from the Anti-tank companies of the 10th, 11th and 12th Infantary Brigades. The regiment fought in the breakthough to Tunis, and chased the enemy round the Cap Bon. The 4th fought from March to November 1944 in Italy and was then sent to help in dealing with the civil disturbances in Greece. Commanding officers of the regiment were: Lt-Col SEF Moran, Lt-Col PGC Preston DSO, Lt-Col ACS Delmege MC". Taylor, J. (1946) This Band of Brothers. Bristol: White Swan Press and "Served in Tunisia with First Army in April/May 1943and saw action on Banana Ridge. In Italy from early 1944 and served at Cassino and on the Gothic Line with the Eight Army bevfore transferring to Greece". According to this source they adopted a regimental badge of a leaping black panther on a green/yellow rectangle. This was designed by the artist EM Lyne who was a serving officer with this regiment. Doherty, R. (2008) Only the enemy in front: The Recce Corps at war 1940-1946. Stroud: Spellmount Press There is a mention of this insignia and a picture in this thread: http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/recce/20921-reconnaissance-regiment-unit-insignia.html
According to this source they adopted a regimental badge of a leaping black panther on a green/yellow rectangle. This was designed by the artist EM Lyne who was a serving officer with this regiment. Doherty, R. (2008) Only the enemy in front: The Recce Corps at war 1940-1946. Stroud: Spellmount Press There is a mention of this insignia and a picture in this thread: http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/recce/20921-reconnaissance-regiment-unit-insignia.html Now that is interesting as dad always said that he drove a war artist around. I will contact my brother who has some old photo's of my dad with some of his pals, and thanks for the warm welcome guys. Steve
Hi Steve, welcome to the forum. They are a really friendly lot here with a huge amount of knowledge. Good luck with finding out about your Dad's war service. Cheers, Wendy.
Welcome to the forum. Keep us up to date on what you find out. You might like to contact this guy to see if he can help BBC - WW2 People's War - Reconnaissance Corps Dee
Hello and welcome to the forum. I have the 2nd Northamptonshire Regiment's War Diaries for May 1940 if they are of any interest. Regards Andy
Welcome to the forum. Keep us up to date on what you find out. You might like to contact this guy to see if he can help BBC - WW2 People's War - Reconnaissance Corps Dee Is this person a member on here do you know, I have just sent them along email and hope I haven't sent them information they have already!!
Welcome to the forum. Keep us up to date on what you find out. You might like to contact this guy to see if he can help BBC - WW2 People's War - Reconnaissance Corps Dee Many thanks for the info, I have sent George an email. Regards Steve
Hello and welcome to the forum. I have the 2nd Northamptonshire Regiment's War Diaries for May 1940 if they are of any interest. Regards Andy Thanks for that Andy, he served with the 5th Northants as that was our local Regiment in Peterborough where we lived. Regards Steve
Steve, I have just returned from a couple of weeks holiday and have been made aware of your post by Owen. If I can be of any help please let me know. I do have some of the 4th war diaries kindly obtained by Robert (Ramacal), which I intend to start downloading. I have uploaded several extracts, which were of interest to members because of the Italian campaign. If you wish to search under war diaries you should be able to find them. Failing that you can look at all my started threads in order to find them. Best of luck with your research. Regards Tom
