264933 John William Ernest Robinson British Army 63rd Anti Tank Regiment, 249th Bty. Royal Artillery from:Bulwell, Nottigham From 1938 to 1946 John Robinson served with 6 or more different regiments and crewed an assortment of heavy and light artillery guns. What we did discover from his service record (page 3) notification of pending release, is stamped 249th RA Yeomanry A/TK Battery, and is authenticated with a document from war diaries which reads: The 63rd Anti Tank Regiment was formed from two Oxfordshire Batteries and two Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Batteries which were sent to northwest Europe to replace 91st Anti Tank Regiments for the rest of the campaign and was re-titled and called the 63rd Anti Tank Regiment RA and on the 11th of December 1944 came under the command of the 11th Armoured Division which served in North West Europe with the second army until after VE Day.
All members of the new regiment continued to wear the dress and cap badges they had worn prior to reorganization.
The 63rd was the second line Territorial Army formed as a duplicate of the 53rd Ant Tank Regiemnt from its' headquarters in Oxford made up of the 249th, (John’s battery), 250, 251 and 252 batteries.
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