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Queens Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards)
The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) were mechanized in 1938, and served as part of the Royal Armoured Corps throughout the Second World War.
26th May 1940 Attack Made
25th Sep 1942 Exercise
26th Sep 1942 Exercise
19th Oct 1942 Move
22nd Oct 1942 On the Move
24th Oct 1942 In Action
5th Nov 1942 Rapid Advance
7th Nov 1944 Into the Line
9th Nov 1944 River Crossed
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Want to know more about Queens Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards)? There are:438 items tagged Queens Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) available in our Library
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AG Swaine Queens Bays AG Swaine served with the Queens Bays British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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HAG Shadwell Queens Bays HAG Shadwell served with the Queens Bays British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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GE Mortlock Queens Bays GE Mortlock served with the Queens Bays British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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W Macfarlane Bays Regt, Royal Armoured Corps W Macfarlane served with the Bays Regt, Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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E Heavyside Queens Bays E Heavyside served with the Queens Bays British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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L/Cpl. CP Hadlow Queens Bays L/Cpl.CP Hadlow served with the Queens Bays British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Francis Victor Goodwin Queens Bays Francis Goodwin served with the Queens Bays British Army. I had his dogtags and was delighted to be able send them home to his family.
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Tpr. Alexander Rodger Hoggan MM. 2nd Dragoon Guards Alexander Hoggan was my late father.
He enlisted into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders when he was about 19.
He requested and was granted a transfer into the Scots Guards.
He saw service in Hong Kong and Shanghai in the Guards with the Shanghai Defence Force.
After completing his service he was placed in reserve for, I think, 7 or 12 years.
In 1941 age 37 he re enlisted. He was now in the Queen's Bays and told he was now in a Cavalry Regiment. He protested "I don't know anything about horses!" and was told "you won't be on a horse laddie you will be on a tank or armoured car in the Royal Armoured Corps."
He ended up in North Africa in the 1st Army under Wavell I think. After various engagements his vehicle, a petrol carrier, was disabled in the Battle of Knightsbridge Box and he was taken prisoner. He eventually ended up in Campo PG 52 in Northern Italy.
Dad told me that he escaped from the camp but was recaptured by black shirt Fascist police an flung into a civilian gaol. He was languishing in a tiny cell for two months when the prison was inspected by a German officer. This officer was told that he was an escaped PoW and the German officer had Dad returned to a PoW camp.
Dad had been beaten regularly by the Italian guards so he was glad to be back in a PoW camp. He had expected to be shot as he was in civilian clothes when the police caught him.
To shorten this story dad managed to escape again when outside camp in a work party. Italian partisans where involved in this escape and Dad joined up with them. Dad fought with the partisans for about 18 months and day he and another two partisans were in a ditch watching the approach of a military type vehicle. Dad and his companions were ready to machine gun it with their captured Mauser Machine pistols when they noticed the big white star on the bonnet of the jeep. The three men waked slowly in to the road with hands upraised, and the Americans captured them and brought them back to the American Lines.
Dad was able to give the Americans very useful information about German strength and their whereabouts.
The Yanks treated them royally and in fact flew Dad back to Britain in an American transport plane.
The London Gazette recorded the Military Medal he was awarded was for special operations behind enemy lines.
Dad died in a NZ Army Veterans home in 2000.
Needless to say Dad was a typical Glaswegian hard case.
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L/Cpl. Douglas Ernest Webb Queens Bays Douglas Webb joined the Queens Bays in around 1937, served in Africa and Italy during the Second World War.
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Douglas "Jim" Hayton 2nd Btn. Dragoon Guards (Queens Bays) My dad Douglas Hayton was in the Queens Bays (2nd Dragoons) Tank Regiment in North Africa, Sicily and Italy, and prior to that in France as a despatch rider. He trained at Bovington before being shipped out on the six week trip to South Africa and was transported up to North Africa for the desert war. He was a tank commander and talked little about his wartime experiences. He was blown from a blazing tank and survived, but his crew did not. He had many nightmares about this after the war.
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