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1. Allan Sutherland 2nd February 2020 at 7:14 pm

   My dad George Gibb Sutherland was in 252 Field Company Royal Engineers and was in Sicily,Cassino and Anzio, I believe. I got his army records and his number was 20007031. He once told me one of his officers got a medal for building a Bailey Bridge across a river but I actually found 3 instances of his unit getting a military medal. I’d like to find out more about that and how he got to Antwerp then ended the war in Wismar. I was told that was unusual. I read that the British army was in Wismar to stop the Russians and there is film on youtube of Montgomery meeting g Rokossovsky. Like all the old soldiers he only told the funny stuff and he died 45 years ago when I was 20.he was also a good footballer and told me he played in a British Army select team against the German police alongside Wilf Mannion.he was also in Madagascar, India and Iraq.I’d like to find out .ore about all of that!
   1. Ian Sykes 23rd January 2022 at 9:52 am

      Hi Allan
      I read your information about your dad. We are currently looking into WW2 stuff regarding my wife’s father – Edward Fowler – who served with 252 Field Company. He died in 1973. We have a formal group photo of 56 soldiers taken in 1945 in Holzminden, Germany. Do you think it’s possible your dad could be on the photo?
      In WW1 the town had a prisoner of war camp – including a large building – from which there was a famous “great escape” in 1918 of a group of 29 British officers. It’s well documented on the internet. There is a possibility that the photo was outside this building!
      Would you like me to forward it to you?
      Regards
      Ian Sykes
2. Barbara E Hill 18th March 2023 at 5:39 pm

   My father was in the Royal Engineers from 1940 to 1946 – 68 Chemical Warfare Coy first stationed at Barton Stacey, Dunster Beach Camp and then to Kent where he neglected to obey 3 CW Group R.E.M.T. standing orders (June 3 1941). This is the only reference in his war records to Kent. On 21st December 1942 he boarded ship for North Africa, Sicily & Italy. Where may I find out more about his time in Kent, and as two ships left Greenock that month, which ship did he go on? Much appreciated, Barbara
   Service No. 1899966

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