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Those known to have served with 140th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery during the Second World War 1939-1945. - Mercer Herbert. Pte.
- Smith Albert. Gnr. (d.11th May 1943)
- West Eric Douglas. L/Bmdr.
- Wheatley Norman Charles. Sig.
- Williams Richard . Gnr. (d.btwn 10th May 1940 & 26th June 1940)
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Want to know more about 140th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery ? There are:466 items tagged 140th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery available in our Library
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L/Bmdr. Eric Douglas West 140th Field Regiment Royal Artillery Eric West was captured after the Battle of Cassel on the 31st of May 1940.
He was a POW at Lamsdorf Stalag VIIIB from 1940 to 1945, in E72 Working Party at Bytom coal mine.
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Gnr. Albert Smith 140 Field Regiment Royal Artillery (d.11th May 1943) Albert Smith was sadly killed in action, on 11th May 1943 in North Africa.
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Gnr. Richard " " Williams 140 Field Regiment (d.btwn 10th May 1940 & 26th June 1940) Gunner Richard Williams was, I believe my great Uncle, who left home around 1939-40 for WW2 never to return. He is listed on the Commonwealth Graves Commission website as having no known grave and he is on the Dunkirk Memorial in France. He was 21 and lost his life between 10th May 1940 & 26th June 1940.
I never met him, but would like to understand what his role may have been, presumably during the fighting in the period around the evacuation of Dunkirk. I have been reading Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's amazing account of Dunkirk, but I have failed to connect Gunner Williams to any of the account of what happened. I realise that the fighting was intense and it is the nature of war that people get blown up, or bodies left behind in the course of action. I like to think he held off advancing Germans allowing others to get home, but any idea of what might have happened would be appreciated.
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Pte. Herbert Mercer 140th Field Rgt ,367 Battery Royal Artillery My father, Pvt Herbert Mercer, Royal Artillery, 140th Field Reg, 367 Battery, was held as a prisoner at Stalag 8B - E3 Blechhammer he lived in hut 33 for about 4 years.
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