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2/7th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment
The 2/7th Battalion Duke of Wellington, West Riding Regiment was deployed to France in March 1940. They were caught up in the German advance, which began on the 10th of May. By the 7th of June they had withdrawn to Dieppe and saw action at St Valery-en-Caux before being evacuated to Britain. They were employed in the UK on defence and training duties. They converted to armour in 1942 and became 115th Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
10th May 1940 Holland and Belgium invaded
10th May 1940 News
17th May 1940 Orders 
18th May 1940 On the Move
20th May 1940 Reorganisation
5th Jun 1940 Counter Attack
7th June 1940 Ground attack
10th Jun 1940 On the March
11th Jun 1940 Furious Fighting
11th Jun 1940 In Action
11th Jun 1940 Orders
11th Jun 1940 Enemy Advance
12th Jun 1940 Situation Hopeless
12th Jun 1940 Ultimatum
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Pte. Arthur Winstanley 2/7th Btn. Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding) Regiment (d.10th Jun 1940) Arthur Winstanley is my great-uncle. His name is on the Dunkirk Memorial.
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Pte. Robert Hughes 2/7th Btn. Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding) Regiment (d.10th June 1940 ) Robert Hughes was was my brother. He was one of best. I think that he was one of the first to get killed, on the 10th of June 1940. He was buried at Soter Sur Mure then reburied at St Marie Cemetery in Le Havre.
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Pte. Artrhur Farrar 2/7th Btn. Duke of Wellington West Riding Regiment (d.6th June 1944) My late Uncle Arthur Farrar joined the Duke of Wellington West Riding Regiment on 19th of October 1939 and he disembarked in France with the 2/7th Battalion as part of the BEF on 18th of April 1940.
He was evacuated on the 13th of June 1940. After his father Jonah Drake Farrar died in late January 1941 he joined his older brother Jonah Drake Farrar, my father, in the 11th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment.
They were then both sent to serve in the Middle East and North Africa in February 1943. In May 1943 they were both compulsory transferred to the 1st Battalion, Hampshire Regiment with whom they were both involved in the invasions of both Sicily and Italy before being returning to the UK in early November 1943.
They were then in training as assault troops for the invasion of Normandy in 1944. On D-day 1944 they were both part of A Company 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment which was first on Gold Beach at 7.32 am on 6th of June 1944. My late father's landing craft was the first to land and Arthur's followed shortly thereafter.
Unfortunately Arthur was killed instantly as he set foot on the beach by a mortar shell.
He is buried in the Bayeux Commonwealth Military Cemetery. He was just 25 years old and had not the war intervened he had a very promising career ahead of him in the first division of the English Football League as he had been in talks with both leading Northern and London Clubs.
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John William Allen 2/7th Btn. Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment (d.11th June 1940) John Allen of the 2/7th Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment is believed to have been killed in action at Dunkirk.
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Pte. Jack Broadbent 2/7th Btn., Z Coy. Duke of Wellington's Regiment (d.11th June 1940)  I never met my uncle, Jack Broadbent, because sadly he was killed in action.
Jack was serving in Z Company 2/7th Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regt. Jack and my aunt had only been married a short time before he was killed. Between 1st and 20th May 1940 the Battalion was located in Blain, France. On 20th May the Battalion was sent to Abbeyville from where they withdrew to Dieppe on 22nd. The Battalion then proceeded to Veules-les Roses where, on 10th June 1940, it was under intense mortar and machine gun fire. Jack was identified as being amongst several soldiers who died during this offensive.
My dad said he was killed in a rear guard action. Jack is buried in Ste. Marie Cemetery Le Havre.
Jack's wife Ivy remarried and the government took her war widows pension off her. This began a long battle with parliament to change the law so that war widows if they remarry will still get the war widows pension. She fought tirelessly and eventually after nearly 50 years she got it changed with the War Widows Association. Little did Jack know he would become famous - his picture was in the local and daily papers and mentioned in Parliament. My Aunt also so disgusted with the whole thing that she sent Jack's war medals back to Buckingham Palace, although she eventually got them back. I am so proud of them both and just wanted them remembered for how brave they were.
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