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107th (South Notts Hussars) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery
107th (South Notts Hussars) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery was formed in July 1942 by the redesignation of 107th (South Nottinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry), Royal Horse Artillery. They saw action across North Western Europe.
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Gnr. Robert W. Halliday 107th (South Notts Hussars) Regiment Royal Horse Artillery (d.12th May 1944) I am sorry that I didn't know Robert as I was born after he died, but he was my mother's brother and she told me the he was killed as a prisoner of war while kept in a factory which was bombed.
He is buried in Prague and I went to visit his grave.
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Gnr. Frank Platt MID. 107th (South Notts Hussars) Regiment Royal Artillery Frank Platt served from 1940 to 1946 and was Mentioned in Dispatches.
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L/Bdr. Douglas Percy Dunn 107th (South Nottinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry) Fie Royal Artillery My father Doug Dunn was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of The Cauldron, Knightsbridge on 6th of June 1942. The Regiment was wiped out I believe only 90 men survived.
He was held in Italy. He escaped and was recaptured. Then at Hartmansdorf Stalag IVf until near the end of the war when he escaped and got to American lines.
His family had been told he had been killed so when he returned in 1945 he had nothing to come home to.
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Gnr. Peter Bailey 107th (South Notts Hussars) Regt. Royal Artillery My father, Peter Bailey, was conscripted into the Royal Artilery in 1939 aged 21. He was sent to Catterick Garrison for basic training. After this he was posted to Ipswich where he was involved with anti aircraft gunnery. Sometime later he was re-posted to Woolwich to await a troop ship bound for Egypt.
I think it was around this time he learned he would be attached to the South Notts Hussars, a TA unit. After six or seven weeks at sea they arrived in Egypt and were sent on to somewhere near Tobruk where the whole regiment was overrun by Field Marshal Rommel's Africa Corps.
Some time later he found himself in POW camp 53 at Sforza Costa near a larger town called Macerata in Italy. When Italy surrendered my father and many others, although not all, escaped to the hills and managed to survive by foraging and stealing until they came across a farmer who took them in and kept them hidden whenever any Germans were about. I think there were only three or four people in my father's party and they helped out on the farm in exchange for food until they were found by US troops.
After this it's pretty much blank as I don't know how he got back to the UK, nor do I know any names of his companions or indeed if all of them survived whilst on the run.
The last six months of my father's service were spent in hospital in Sheffield with PTSD, and then medically discharged just as the war ended. I am pleased to say he completely recovered and lived to be 78 years old.He rarely talked about the war but one thing he did mention was the harsh conditions in camp 53 and the brutality of some of the guards, his biggest complaint though was the fact that his army boots fell to pieces and it left him barefooted for around two years.
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