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6th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment
6th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment was a Territorial unit serving with the 44th (Home Counties) Division and later with 56th (London) Division. They saw action in North Africa, Sicily and Italy.
28th Jun 1940 Reorganisation
2nd Sep 1943 Briefing
9th Sep 1943 Advance
16th Dec 1943 Reliefs Complete
17th Dec 1943 Patrols
18th Dec 1943 Patrols
28th of February 1944 Visits
7th September 1944 In Action
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Want to know more about 6th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment? There are:1326 items tagged 6th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment available in our Library
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Col John Darlington 6th Battalion Cheshire Regiment (d.25th December 1943) My great uncle, John Darlington, fought for his country as a member of the Cheshire Regiment 6th Battalion.He died on Christmas Day aged 25. Buried in Minturno War Cemetery in Italy.
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Sgt. Charles Claude "Chris" Mugeli 6th Battalion Cheshire Regiment Charles Mugeli is my father. I have 2 of his diaries which log the progress of the convoy he was in charge of.
South Africa, Aden, Egypt, El Alamein, Alam Halfa to name but a few (1942).
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A.Sgt. Ernest Atkinson DCM 6th Battalion Cheshire Regiment My mother went to Buckingham Palace with Sgt.Atkinson's family for the DCM award ceremony.
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A/Sgt. James W. Thomas 6th Btn. Cheshire Regiment James W Thomas was a POW and was one of many POWs who were on a train on 28 January 1944 having been evacuated in anticipation of the Allied advance. They had mainly come from Camp P.G. 54, Fara in Sabina, 35 kilometres to the north of Rome. The Orvieto North railway bridge at Allerona, Italy, became the site of the inadvertent bombing by the American 320th Bombardment Group. One of the men on the train, Richard Morris of the U.S. Army, wrote that the train was halted on the bridge over the river when the Allied bombs started to fall, and that the German guards fled the train, leaving the prisoners locked inside. Many escaped, Morris included, through holes in the boxcars caused by the bombing, and jumped into the river below. Historian Iris Origo wrote that 450 were killed when the cars ultimately tumbled into the river.
He was Captured at Garigliano. He survived the wreck with a fracture to his left upper arm and facial wounds. He was sent to Stalag 344 Lamsdorf
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Pte. A. Lishman 6th Btn. Cheshire Regiment A Lishman was a POW and was one of many POWs who were on a train on 28 January 1944 having been evacuated in anticipation of the Allied advance. They had mainly come from Camp P.G. 54, Fara in Sabina, 35 kilometres to the north of Rome. The Orvieto North railway bridge at Allerona, Italy, became the site of the inadvertent bombing by the American 320th Bombardment Group. One of the men on the train, Richard Morris of the U.S. Army, wrote that the train was halted on the bridge over the river when the Allied bombs started to fall, and that the German guards fled the train, leaving the prisoners locked inside. Many escaped, Morris included, through holes in the boxcars caused by the bombing, and jumped into the river below. Historian Iris Origo wrote that 450 were killed when the cars ultimately tumbled into the river.
He was Captured at Garigliano. He survived the wreck uninjured and was sent to Stalag 344 Lamsdorf
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S/Sgt. Joseph Barratt 6th Btn. Cheshire Regiment Staff/Sergeant Joseph Barratt was an employee of the hat manufacturers Christy & Co. Ltd. when he joined the Army in May 1939. Joseph left Britain in 1942 and ended up as a POW in Italy. He was on a POW train en-route from Italy to Germany when the Allerona tragedy took place.
On 28th January 1944 at the Orvieto North railway bridge at Allerona, Italy, a train full of Allied prisoners, most of whom had come from Camp P.G. 54, Fara in Sabina, north of Rome, was hit by friendly fire from the American 320th Bombardment Group. U.S. Army member Richard Morris was on the train and wrote that the journey was stopped on the bridge over the river, and that the German guards fled as soon as the bombs struck. The prisoners were left locked inside the carriages. Many, including Joseph Barratt, managed to escape through holes in the boxcars caused by the bombing, and jumped into the river below. It was a great tragedy of the war resulting in the deaths of hundreds of men.
Joseph suffered bruising to his chest whilst escaping from the train, and was admitted to hospital at Orvieto. From there he was sent on to Stalag 344 in Lamsdorf, Poland. His wife received notification of his detention on 21st February 1944. Tony Barratt, their son, reports that during the action in which his father was taken prisoner in Garigliano, the commanding officer was killed and so his father took command. He was debating the best course of action (to wave the white flag or run) when the Germans captured them.
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