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75th (Shropshire Yeomanry) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery
29th Nov 1943 In Action
25th of January 1945 Orders
26th of January 1945 Orders
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Want to know more about 75th (Shropshire Yeomanry) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery? There are:3 items tagged 75th (Shropshire Yeomanry) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery available in our Library
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Gnr. William Victor Manford 76th Medium Regiment Royal Artillery      My father Bill Manford was a farmer, born in 1919 and when he was 19 joined the Shropshire Yeomanry. In 1940 he was transferred to the Royal Artillery firstly the 75th then the 76th Regiment.
He trained in Luton, and was posted to the Middle East in 1941. He was sent to Port Said, Egypt, and then on to Cyprus, Palestine, Iraq, Syria, what is now Lebanon, visiting Baalbeck while he was there. Finally on to the Western Desert in Egypt where he was captured at El Alemain in July 1942.
He then was handed to the Italians and then went to Serena Bari Transit camp before being sent to POW Camp P.G. 73 at Fossoli di Carpi in 1942. In Sept 1943 he either escaped or was released and spent sometime working on an Italian farm where he was treated very well by the farm bailiff. He was then picked up by the Germans and transferred to Stalag IVC in the Czech republic, which was then part of Germany. The camp was liberated by the Russians in May 1945. After 2 years 11 months in captivity. He served a total of 6 years 44 days and returned to farming.
While he was away in the Army, his only sibling Mary was married and had 2 children.
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Capt. Eric William Langston Keymer MC. 75th Med Regt (Shropshire Yeomanry) Royal Artillery My father Eric Keymer served with the Shropshire Yeomanry in the Second World War, Royal Regiment of Artillery, 75th Shropshire Yeomanry Med Regt, fighting in Italy, where he was awarded a Military Cross for his actions on 30th December 1944, at which point he was acting as GPO to D Troop 102 Battery just south of Fontanelice.
In 2009 he wrote up his Recollections of the War in a booklet which we published. It gives a full and personal account of his experiences from 3rd September 1939 when the news came that we were at war with Germany, through to 1946 when the Regiment was put into suspended animation; he finally returned home in July 1946.
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