Footage of Exercise Fabius on Hayling Island on 4th May 1944 in preparation for DDay.
An A Squadron Sherwood Rangers Sherman drives off the LCT onto 'Easy Red' sector, followed by two HQ Squadron jeeps and a Morris Light Reconnaissance Car, then another A Squadron Sherman enters the water off an LCT.
Notice the tac sign 🦊996 of 8th Armoured Brigade.
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A recent visit to SRY archives and some SRY treasure.....😍
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Sgt.George Dring MM and crew....
June 1944
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Pat McCraith
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13th/14th February 1941
Tobruk
'Today I boarded HMS Terror and set sail westwards, with Roger Nelthorpe, Jack Whiting, Jack Abdy, two NCOs and our four batmen.We had an escort of one destroyer against submarines. The gunnery officer, Captain Hood of the Royal Marines, has mounted six Italian Breda guns on the deck, which were captured at Tobruk and Bardia. We have offered to man one of these guns. So, in the event of an alarm,Roger, Jack Whiting and I will man one on the port side. They are excellent guns, and can be used either against aircraft or against ground troops. All the ammunition are tracer, and very excellent.'
An Englishman at War - The Wartime Diaries of Stanley Christopherson DSO MC TD 1939-1946
Edited by James Holland
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'Ted' ......Lieutenant Michael Bilton of A Squadron Sherwood Rangers, severely wounded at Alamein 24th October 1942.
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Did you know...?
Lieutenant Michael Bilton
Michael Bilton was born in Cottingham, Yorkshire on 14th December 1919 and joined the East Riding Yeomanry upon the outbreak of war, being given a commision.
He joined the Sherwood Rangers on 31st July 1942 and was posted to A Squadron commanding #3 Troop.
He fought in the Battle of Alam Halfa in September that year but it was on 24th October during the Battle of el Alamein that he was severly wounded in the stomach.
He spent the next two years recovering in a hospital in Cairo, where he met his first wife who was his nurse, before returning to the UK where he decided to fulfill his ambition to become an actor.
He appeared in many stage plays and musicals across the UK including the West End before turning to film.
He appeared in A Taste of Honey, Hitchcocks Frenzy, the remake of The Thirty Nine Steps and The Forth Protocol.
He also acted on television and featured in Dads Army, Coronation Street, Brideshead Revisited, One Foot in the Grave, Keeping Up Appearances, The Prisoner, The Saint, The Avengers and Quartermass II. He starred as Ned the gardener in three series of To The Manor Born.
But it was as another gardener that he is best remembered in the UK, as Ted in 1989s award winning Golden Pages advert.
The severity of Biltons war wound limited him to certain roles and it was to affect him throughout his life. He suffered from crippling arthritis which prevented him from returning to the stage in later life.
He died of cancer, peacefully, at the home of his second wife, in Hertfordshire on 5th November 1993.
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From 'WW2 Battles in Colour : el Alamein' , and an unusual one, Major Martin Lindsey (Lindsay) gets a mention. Lindsay was an SRY Intelligence officer in the Desert before becoming IO of 7th Armoured Division in NW Europe.
He wrote the 1952 official wartime history of the Sherwood Rangers.
Many thanks to Mr.Craig Palmer for the heads up.
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Sherwood Rangers and their Tiger
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Danny-Spock Ver Meijen visited Geel War Cemetery today and sent on this video.
11th September 2024
With many thanks Danny.
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Gheel, Belgium 🇧🇪
10th September 1944
Geel
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A History of The Nottinghamshire Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry in the Second World War This page is dedicated to my father, Patrick McDermott, 1940-2016
