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3rd Maritime Regiment, Royal Artillery
3rd Maritime Regiment, Royal Artillery was established in March 1943 by the reorganisation of the Maritime Royal Artillery, which had been formed on the 1st of November 1942 by renaming the Maritime Anti-Aircraft Royal Artillery, which had previously been formed from the Bren Gun Scheme, Port Gunners and Coastal Shuttle Service on the 6th of May 1941. On 3rd of September 1939 Germany had declared that all British merchant vessels would be treated as warships, in response the ships had been armed and these guns manned by gunners of the Royal Navy and Royal Artillery. The HQ of 3rd Maritime Regiment, Royal Artillery was at North Shields and they were designated to protect shipping in the Tyne area, sailing on all types of vessels.
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Those known to have served with 3rd Maritime Regiment, Royal Artillery during the Second World War 1939-1945. - Barclay Albert Edward. Gnr. (d.19th March 1945)
- Bee James. L/Sgt.
- Gratton William Thomas. Gnr. (d.26th Nov 1941)
- Holden Frank. Gnr. (d.5th April 1944)
- Hughes George Edgar. Gnr.
- Keene Horace Jack. L/Cpl
- Waters Richard Henry. Gnr. (d.9th Aug 1941)
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Gnr. Richard Henry Waters 5/3rd Maritime Regt. Royal Artillery (d.9th Aug 1941) Richard Waters served with the 5/3rd Maritime Regiment Royal Artillery during WW2. He was killed in action on the 9th August 1941 and is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial in Kent.
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L/Cpl Horace Jack "Gonnet (Jack)" Keene 3rd Maritime Regiment Royal Artillery Jack Keene was my dad. He served in the 3rd Maritime Regiment, Royal Artillery in WW2. He was a butcher by trade.
He volunteered for war service and joined the East Surrey Regiment 2 weeks after getting married in May 1940. I know his unit was involved with coastal defence work along the West and South West coastline of England during which time he got his stripe for catching a spy, and his Army false teeth after being blown up in a very bad bombing raid on Plymouth. I remember he told me that he volunteered to be a gunner on merchant ships & did his training at Shoeburyness.
I believe he went to sea in 1943 & was serving in the Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship until 1946.
He told me that he had visited every country on the globe (as it was then) bar 7, some multiple times.
There was a little cardboard box which had six medals in it (one with bar), it also had two letters in it, one was a copy of a letter from King George V1 to the Commander of Forces congratulating all concerned for their heroism in making 20 trips across to the Normandy Beaches from D Day onward & the other one was for prize money awarded to my dad for his part in capturing a U Boat at sea.
My dad died aged 72 at the start of 1987. He had been going to The British Legion Club at Hanworth Middlesex in the hope of meeting up with old comrades but although he never found anyone he served with, he did make a lot of new friends who had been DEMS during the war and they all helped to give him a good send off at his funeral.
Unfortunately, the medals & letters were stolen by a lodger at my Mum's home. Somewhere there is a diary which Dad kept while at sea, some photos and his good conduct discharge papers from the 3rd Marine Regiment R.A.
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Gnr. Frank Holden 3rd Maritime Regiment Royal Artillery (d.5th April 1944) Frank Holden was my great uncle born circa 1909, his parents were Edward and Alice Holden of Walsall.
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Gnr. Albert Edward Barclay 3 Maritime Regt. Royal Artillery (d.19th March 1945) Albert Barklay was the son of Robert and Sybil Barclay of Inverness. He was 38 when he died and is buried in the Norre Havrvig Churchyard in Denmark.
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Gnr. George Edgar Hughes 1st Maritime Rgt. Royal Artillery My father, the late George Edgar Hughes, served in the 1st and 3rd Maritime Regiments as a Gunner and Bombardier. He was torpedoed in the South Atlantic and sailed in an open boat for mome days to South America. Has anybody any information about this or served with my father in the war?
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