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Those known to have served with 2nd Battalion, Cheshire Regiment during the Second World War 1939-1945. - Fisher William. Pte. (d.14th November 1942)
- Forgan Thomas Hungerford Keith. Capt.
- Jones Alfred. L/Cpl.
- Renshaw DSO. Harold Henry. Sgt.
- Smith Robert Howard. L/Cpl.
- Watson Louis Reginald. Private
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Want to know more about 2nd Battalion, Cheshire Regiment? There are:1414 items tagged 2nd Battalion, Cheshire Regiment available in our Library
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Private Louis Reginald Watson 2nd Battalion Cheshire Regiment My late father, Private Louis Reginald Watson of the 2nd battalion Cheshire Regiment, was involved in the withdrawal from Gazala to Egypt via Tobruk where he was captured and shipped to POW Camp PG 73 in Capri Northern Italy. I have a photo taken at the camp on the 28th Oct. 1943 which he sent to my mother. As a member of an outside working party repairing the road surface, he hid inside a culvert and escaped about the time of the Italian capitulation and stayed on the run until the advancing British forces reached him.
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L/Cpl. Alfred Jones 2nd Battalion Cheshire Regiment Alfred Jones served with the 2nd Battalion, Cheshire Regiment I'm researching my grandfather's history, especially his time during the War. I have recently purchased a copy of his service medals, campaign medal and the Burma star. Very interested in finding any more info.
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Pte. William Fisher 2nd Btn Cheshire Regiment (d.14th November 1942) Bill Fisher was my uncle, my mother's brother he lived at No 16 Gaskell Street in Wigan.
He went to France as part of the Expditionary Forces, and was evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk. After some leave he went back to war, and was posted to North Africa where he was captured.
According to my Mother, Bill was handed over to the Italians for transportation to a P.O.W camp (Mum says they had a telegram to this effect). But, apparently, the Italians put the POW's onto an unmarked ship, and we unfortunatly sank it.
This is the story as told to me by my Mother.... I would love to know the full story of Uncle Bill's war record, and to know with certainty how he died.
He is remembered on the El-Alamein war memorial.
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Capt. Thomas Hungerford Keith "Harry" Forgan 2nd Btn. Cheshire Regiment Thomas Forgan was wounded in action when attacking an airfield in Italy in April 1942. He became a POW in August 1942.
Thomas was born on 9th October 1919 and died in 2002 in Shrewsbury.
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L/Cpl. Robert Howard "Smudge" Smith 2nd Btn. Cheshire Regiment My dad, Robert Smith, enlisted in the British Army on 29th December 1929 at Seaforth for seven years with the Colours and five years with the Reserve. He was born the 31st December 1911 in Ainsdale, Lancashire. He was two days short of his 19th birthday when he enlisted.
Dad did his training at Chester, then was posted out with his Regiment to India where he spent seven years, returning home to the UK. As he then had completed his Colour Service, he went into civvy street and worked for Cheshire Lines Railways. Not long after, he was recalled for war service, going to France with his battalion the 2nd Cheshires. He was a machine gunner. Eventually, like many others, he was harried to Dunkirk. His first try at escaping from Dunkirk was thwarted by the ship he was on being bombed, but eventually he made the return back to Blighty in a small craft.
Dad then served in North Africa, before being caught in the bag at the fall of Tobruk. He was shipped to Italy as a PoW to a place called Bars. When the Italians surrendered, he and others made a break for it, but later were given away by a young fascist lad. The Germans then imprisoned Dad and he was sent to POW Camp Stalag IVF located at Hartmannsdorf Chemnitz.
Whilst Dad was there he was put on work details in the fields, and he also did some boot repair work.
He and another lad had some Red Cross rations issued and decided to make a cake with some of the items. The German cook let them bake it in some of the hot ashes in the cook house but they couldn't wait so decided to eat the mixture as it was. Shortly afterwards they were both very sick, their stomach had shrunk so much they could not hold it down.
My dad spoke of an old German sergeant who had lost four sons on the Russian Eastern Front, and who had only one son left who was serving in France.
My dad got gangrene in his right hand. A German doctor saved it by scraping it out with scissors whilst dad was held down by two medical orderlies. The doctor poured pure iodine into the wound - it saved his hand, but he said he cursed that doctor while he worked on that wound.
My dad made it back to Blighty after the Americans freed them. He was discharged from the Army as being B1 Ref fitness. My father weighed less than 5 stone when he got back home, he was only 5ft 3 inches in height. My mum had to buy him youth's clothes, he was so light.
Dad passed away in September 1990. The doctor said Dad did not want to go and fought all the way until his heart stopped.
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