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231st Battery, Royal Artillery
58th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery was formed in 1938 from troops of the 4th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's Regiment and was made up of 229th, 230th, 231st and 232nd Batteries. They saw action in France, North Africa, Sicily, Salerno, Palestine, Italy, Greece and were in Austria in 1945.
67th (Suffolk) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery was a Territorial unit made up of 231st Battery based in Ipswich and 232nd Battery based in Sudbury. They served in North Africa from October 1941 until June 1942 when the regiment was captured at Toruk. The Regiment was reformed at Hunstanton in February 1943 from a core from 167th Field Regiment, RA and went on to see action across North Western Europe from mid 1944 until the end of the conflict.
26th Jun 1944 Landing
28th Jun 1944 Landing
2nd Jul 1944 In Action
8th Jul 1944 On the Move
9th Jul 1944 Under Shellfire
15th Jul 1944 Under Shellfire
23rd Jul 1944 On the Move
26th Jul 1944 On the Move
4th Aug 1944 On the Move
6th Aug 1944 Costly Mistake
11th Aug 1944 Quiet
14th Aug 1944 On the Move
15th Aug 1944 German Prisoner
17th Aug 1944 Fresh Treat
18th Aug 1944 Dangerous Dead
18th Aug 1944 Stench of Death
29th Aug 1944 Orders
30th Aug 1944 At Rest
6th Oct 1944 Counter Attacks
8th Oct 1944 Rounds Fired
13th Oct 1944 In Position
13th Oct 1944 In Action
13th Oct 1944 In Action
14th Oct 1944 Visit
15th Oct 1944 In Action
16th Oct 1944 In Action
17th Oct 1944 Orders Cancelled
18th Oct 1944 Observation Posts
19th Oct 1944 Threat of Flood
20th Oct 1944 In Action
21st Oct 1944 Counter Battery Work
22nd Oct 1944 Counter Battery Work
23rd Oct 1944 Withdrawal
24th Oct 1944 Recce
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Gnr. Thomas Henry Chapman 231 Bty. 42nd LAA Regiment Royal Artillery (d.28th Oct 1942) Thomas Chapman served with 231 Battery, 42nd Light Anti Aircraft Regimet, Royal Artillery. He was killed in action during the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt.
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Gnr. Sidney Dalton MiD. 231st Bty. 67th (Suffolk) Medium Regiment Royal Artillery    Sidney Dalton was called up in 1942, enlisting at Saighton on 19th November. He was a Gunner in the Royal Artillery, and qualified as a Driver on 20th February 1943, then classified Signaller on 20th May 1943 (17 Squad).
His unit, 231st Medium Battery, landed at Arromanches on 29th June 1944, and was soon in action. On 11th July at La Biyude, nicknamed Happy Valley, they had their first casualty when Gunner Cyril Pardy was killed. After various actions in Normandy, they worked their way up through Europe. On 5th October they were in Eindhoven, and a couple of days later they were in Nijmegen, in liaison with an American battery.
He was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the Oak Leaf "...for devotion to duty under fire by keeping his radio set in operation and thus helping materially to keep artillery in action at a vital period."
After hostilities ceased, the men became part of the British Army of the Rhine and were housed in the Rhine Army College billets in Goettingen and Hamburg. Among the recreations he did at this time were going on a photography course, and canoeing on the Mohne dam reservoir He was demobilised on 22nd August 1947 from B Troop, 25/26 Battery, 7th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery.
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