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102nd Light Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
3rd Apr 1945 Reliefs 
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Want to know more about 102nd Light Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery ? There are:431 items tagged 102nd Light Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery available in our Library
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Gnr. John Thomas Mitchell 102th Light Anti Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery Jack Mitchell was my uncle. He was captured in Crete in June 1941 and spent the rest of the war as POW. He survived and died a natural death in 1995.
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Gnr. Edwin Warburton 102 LLA Rgt. Royal Artillery (d.24th Oct 1944) 36 year old Gunner Ewin Warburton was married to Doris Warburton and lived in Tyldesley, Lancashire. He served with 102nd LAA Regiment, RA, and played a part in the liberation of my home town, Hoogstraten on the Dutch/Belgian border, some 20 km south of Breda. The regiment was then operating in an infantry role in an ad hoc formation called Bobforce. This was organised to help out the 49th Infantry Division in holding an extensive frontline in October 1944. The 102 LAA even lost two men during an advance through the mine-infested area of Wortel-Kolonie, just to the east of Hoogstraten. They were Lieutenant Cyril John Le Rue and Gunner Ewin Warburton. Both were buried at the Leopoldsburg War Cemetery after the war.
As I have been researching aspects of the 2nd World War for some 25 years now, I would very much appreciate learning more from your father's time in our area in the autumn of 1944 or from any other member of the regiment.
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Lt. Cyril John Le 102 LLA Rgt. Royal Artillery (d.24th Oct 1944) The 102nd LAA Regiment, RA, played a part in the liberation of my home town, Hoogstraten on the Dutch/Belgian border, some 20 km south of Breda. The regiment was then operating in an infantry role in an ad hoc formation called Bobforce. This was organised to help out the 49th Infantry Division in holding an extensive frontline in October 1944. The 102 LAA lost two men during an advance through the mine-infested area of Wortel-Kolonie, just to the east of Hoogstraten. They were Lieutenant Cyril John Le Rue and 36 year old Gunner Ewin Warburton; married to Doris Warburton (Tyldesley, Lancashire). Both were buried at the Leopoldsburg War Cemetery after the war.
As I have been researching aspects of the 2nd World War for some 25 years now, I would very much appreciate learning more from your father's time in our area in the autumn of 1944 or from any other member of the regiment.
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Samuel McAllister 102 LLA Rgt. Royal Artillery My father Samuel McAllister, Mac as he was known, served with 102nd LAA Regiment, RA.
It was formed from the 7th Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment in December 1941, and was attached to 1 Corps in Normandy, before passing through Belgium and North Brabant in Holland. The regimental headquarters were based in Prinsenkade in the town of Breda for a time and the regiment retrained in the use of rocket projectiles in an assault capacity. Whilst in the regiment Mac and met a Dutch Woman named Petronella, in November 1944 and married her in August 1945. The regiment moved to Wilhelmshaven and was there until it was disbanded in March 1946. I would be very interested to hear from anyone who served in the above Light Anti-Aircraft regiment during WW2 or who had relatives who did so.
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