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Lt. Bill Ashby
British Army 4th (Hallamshire) Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment
Lieutenant Bill Ashby, my father, served as leader of East Sussex Scout Section in Auxiliary Units 1940 to 1943. He and his men were all from the Queens Royal Regiment. He then became adjutant of the Hallamshire Battalion of the York and Lancs Regiment until wounded with a bullet in his spine in Normandy in 1944.