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68th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
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Want to know more about 68th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery ? There are:430 items tagged 68th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery available in our Library
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Gnr. Eddie Foggin 277th Bty. 68th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery Eddie Foggin served with 277th Bty. 68th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery.
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L/Sgt. Robert Burley 200th Battery, 68th Heavy Anti Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery Bob Burley served with 200thBattery, 68th Heavy Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery. He was awarded the Africa Star Part II and 1939-45 Star.
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Pte. Donald Edward Pitcher 68th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, 200th Bty. Royal Artillery (d.17th February 1943) Donald Pitcher was born in Farnham, Surrey in the January to March Quarter of 1921. He was the son of Percival John Pitcher and of Ellen Adelaide Pitcher, of South Zeal.
He served as a Gunner with 200th Battery, 68th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment of the Royal Artillery. Donald died on 17th February, 1943, aged 22, and is buried in Heliopolis War Cemetery in Egypt. The inscription on his grave reads:
We Shall Remember Him As He Was, A Dear Son And A Good Brave Lad. Mother.
Donald's name is displayed on the War Memorial in South Tawton Parish Church and in the Victory Hall at South Zeal, Devon.
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Gnr. Norman Thomas Hindson 68th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, 277 Bty. Royal Artillery My Dad, Norman Hindson served in the Royal Artillery as a Gunner.
He was captured at Trobuk
then held as a POW outside Rome.
He escaped when Italy capitulated but was picked up by the Germans and spent the rest of the war at Stalag XVIII-A.
He had surrendered to the Italians, the only option was to try to get through a minefield to freedom. His South African comrade wanted to do this, my Dad talked him out of it.
Dad says that the Italian camp was very reasonable. They often traded Red Cross goods with the local civilians for fresh produce.
Stalag XVIII-A was a different story. He didn't say much about it but it appears that the Eastern Europeans and Russians were treated incredibly badly. The camp was in at least two parts. My Dad was in the Westerners part.
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Gnr. Arthur Wallace 68th Heavy AA Rgt. Royal Artillery (d.30th August 1945) Arthur Wallace was my grandfather on my mother's side. He is buried at Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseilles.
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Gnr. George Hardy 68th HAA Regiment, 277 Bty. Royal Artillery (d.21st June 1942) My great uncle George Hardy was killed at Tobruk on 21st June 1942 - the day that it fell to Rommel.
I do not know anything about my uncle other than that he died of his injuries. The irony of my uncle’s fate was that he was the youngest brother and the three older brothers who went to the First World War all returned home safe.
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L/Sgt. John James Kennedy 68th Heavy A A Regt. Royal Artillery (d.30th Aug 1945) My Grandfather, L/Sgt John James Kennedy, was in the 68th Heavy A A Royal Artillery Regt.
He was killed 30th August 1945 andis buried in Mazargues Cemetary, which is just outside Marsailles, South of France.
The story we were always told was that he had chartered a private flight home from France, to surprise his family, as he was travelling via ship, was taking too long. So together with a couple of others, they got a flight, which was then struck by lightening and all aboard died. I have been fortunate on a number of occasions to visit his grave which is kept to an excellent standard by the CWGC. Following recent visit and attempts to find out exactly where and what my grandad's regiment were doing, I keep hitting brick walls. I was wandering if anyone can help me fill in the gaps in regards to manouveres his regt were involved with. Was it that he was a prisoner of war? Any info would be greatly appreciated thanks.
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Gnr. Charles Frederick Johnson 68 H.A.A 277 Bty. Royal Artillery My father, Charlie Johnson, was a gunner in the Royal Artillery and served in Egypt where he suffered from dysentry before being reported missing in Tobruk on 20.6.1942. He was taken as a prisoner of war and shipped to a transit camp in Italy, PG 75, P.M. 3450, Bari. I have no information of what happened to him in Italy but he was transferred from there to Stalag XVIIIA in Wolfsburg, Austria sometime in 1943 where he stayed until 1945. My father didn't really talk about the war or what happened to him in the camps, all the information I have is mostly through research and the records I have received from the Army Personnel Centre. All I have of my Dad's from this time is his dog tag which has the no. 8296 and a ring which has scribed on it "Austria 1943" and in one corner an arc of the sun with rays coming off it. I was told by my Mum that she thought that someone in the camp had made it for him, but on reading a passage from the book "POW Allied Prisoners of War in Europe 1939-1945" by Adrian Gilbert, where it mentions that the Russian POW's on the other side of the fence were so badly treated that the POW's in my Dad's camp smuggled food and cigarettes to them and in gratitude the Russians gave them small wood carvings and metalwork, I now wonder whether this ring was made by a Russian prisoner of war.
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