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5th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
5th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery consisting of 63rd, 64th, 73rd and 81st Batteries was in India when war broke out in 1939. They proceeded to Malaya in 1941.
8th December 1941 Kota Bharu
22nd Nov 1944 In Action
23rd Nov 1944 PrisonerIf you can provide any additional information, especially on actions and locations at specific dates, please add it here.
Those known to have served with
5th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
during the Second World War 1939-1945.
- Ayscough William. Gnr. (d.12th Feb 1942)
- Dryden Jim. Sgt.
- Jones Gwilym. Bmdr.
- Leadbeatter Alfred James. L/Bmbdr. (d.18th November 1944)
- Royal Albert George. Gnr. (d.10th Feb 1942)
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Want to know more about 5th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery?
There are:434 items tagged 5th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery available in our Library
These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War.
L/Bmbdr. Alfred James Leadbeatter 5th Field Regiment Royal Artillery (d.18th November 1944)
Alfred Leadbeatter is my uncle who I never got to meet but I am so proud to be his nephew. He will never be forgotten.Richard Weeks
Gnr. William Ayscough 5th Field Regiment Royal Artillery (d.12th Feb 1942)
Uncle Will Ayscough was killed by the Japanese at Buket Tima Road on the 12th of Feb 1942.Francis Ayscough
Sgt. Jim Dryden 5th Rgt. Royal Artillery
My dad was in the Royal Artillery, 5th Regiment. He served in Africa, Italy, France and Germany. He was badly injured at Dunkirk, but he did get out. He served for 21 years from 1928 to 1949.Elsie
Gnr. Albert George Royal 5th Field Regiment Royal Artillery (d.10th Feb 1942)
Born in Jarrow in 1912 Albert George Royal was 22 when he died. He was the son of Albert George and Catherine Ann Royal (nee Bowman) and husband of Elsie Kirkup Royal (nee Dalton) of South Shields.Albert is remembered on the Singapore Memorial and is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Jarrow Town Hall.
Vin Mullen
Bmdr. Gwilym Jones 5th Field Regiment, 63rd Battery Royal Artillery
Gwilym Jones enlisted at Caernarvon on 6th January 1932 according to the records. But, I recall he always said he was a boy trumpeter at Woolwich Barracks. The book shows his service to run from 17th August 1935 (his eighteenth birthday). He talked of his days fighting on the North West Frontier. With the information on 63rd Battery and 5th Field Regiment I have trawled the internet and found that they were "lost" at the fall of Singapore which means he was transferred fortunately before the regiment went to Malaya.Working through what I could find I am fairly certain he was transferred to the 9th Field Regiment RA which had been in the BEF and I presume recovered from Dunkirk with the loss of many men and much equipment. He was in the UK for 2 years which ties in with his records, presumably re-forming, re-equipping and re-training and then went to South Africa for the Madagasca invasion and he then shows as being in Durban (again). This I think from things I recall him saying was for R and R. In January 1943 he is shown as returning to India and I know he fought in Burma although this is not shown as he held the Burma Star.
Following the trail of the 9th FR they became part of the 20th Indian Division that fought at Imphal and pursued the Japanese through Burma. The Service Book shows:
- home 6/1/33 to 18/2/34
- India 16/2/34 to 28/4/40
- home 29/4/40 to 21/3/42
- Madagasca 22/3/42 to 24/10/42
- South Africa 25/10/42 to 24/1/43
- India 25/1/45 to 6/5/45
- home 7/5/45 to 9/4/46
Bryn Jones
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