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Those known to have served with 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment during the Second World War 1939-1945. - Bambridge Edwin John. Pte. (d.21st Jan 1945)
- Coles Leslie. Pte.
- Morley Arthur Henry. Pte. (d.11th June 1944)
- Morley Arthur Henry. Pte. (d.11th Jun 1944)
- Shaw .
- Wright Sidney William. Cpl.
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Pte. Leslie Coles 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment Les Coles served with the 12 platoon, B Company, 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment between 1944-1946. Previous to this he was in the Royal Artillery on Anti-Aircraft guns at Dover.
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Shaw 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment For some months I have been searching for information on a British soldier, named Thjou, Shaw or something like that. I have a photo of him and with the signs on his uniform he has to be a member of the 49th Infantry Division, which badge is over the Sphynx which was the badge of the Essex regiment.
The 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment were at Nijmegen in the Netherlands (my birth and living place) on 6 January till May 1945. In the period a German V1-flying bomb attacked on 18th of February 1945 Nijmegen in the neighborhood of a house where British soldiers were sleeping. Thjou or Shaw was one of them and he helped the family by cleaning up the house, which was damaged by the V1 attack. He should be a cobbler and was around 28 years old in February 1945.
Now I have connected several persons to get more information about him and his relatives, so far without result. Maybe you can help me with that. It should be very nice because I'm writing a small book with stories of people who lived on the place of the V1-attack and I will write something about the English soldiers who were sleeping in the house of Dutch inhabitants. Hopefully you can help me with this.
In 2010 it was my father, then 80 years old (he died 6 years ago) who realized a monument for the 4 citizens which died and the many wounded people which houses were destroyed. The old people which I have spoken are all very positive about the British soldiers which give them some meat (corned beef) and chocolate in the time that food was very little available. Yearly, I'm organizing now rememberances and the primary school is involved with that. In 2010 we realised a first small book and now I have much new stories, so I will make a second little book. See this link for the first book.
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Pte. Edwin John "Bimbo" Bambridge 2nd Btn. Essex Regiment (d.21st Jan 1945) Edwin Bambridge is commemorated on the War Memorial of Cann Hall and Harrow Green Baptist Church, Leytonstone, London, where he was an active member from boyhood.
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Cpl. Sidney William Wright 2nd Btn. Essex Regiment Sidney Wright served with the 2nd Btn. Essex Regiment.
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Pte. Arthur Henry Morley 2nd Btn. Essex Rgt. (d.11th June 1944) My great uncle, Pte. Arthur Henry Morley, was born around 1919 and died on 11th June 1944 during the landings after D-day. He is commemorated on the Bayeux Memorial, XIV.D.6.
Update
If your great uncle was killed with the 2nd Essex on 11th June 1944 he was certainly a casualty of the first big battle of his battalion in the Normandy campaign. This bitter fight was near the villages of Verrieres and Lingevres and there were 15 memebrs of his battalion killed in action on that fateful day and quite a number of wounded. They even renamed the local wood "Essex Wood" in honour of the regiment. There was a memorial unveiled for that particular action on 7th June 2004 in the presence of several veterans of the Essex Regiment. (Francis Huijbrechts)
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