Identify this Badge Please

[Eddie Parks]

I'd just write and ask. I've no idea what their criteria is.

[El tigre]

The collar "dogs" as we called them are of the York and Lancaster regt. I still have mine after having them issued in 1957..

[Lampwick]

I'm absolutely fascinated by this thread. What happened next???? C'mon.. make an old man happy (as I say to the girls!!) I know that this is resurrecting a 2 year old thread....

Originally Posted by mikerace

Hi Doug thank for the Info, this is really helpful, I have also been in touch with a relative.

Here is Walters History

Walter enlisted in the regular army, Yorkshire & Lancashire Regiment, 19th Sept. 1922.
Embarked for Germany 15th March 1923. British Army of Occupation.
Returned to UK 18th January 1926.
He left the army on 18th Nov. 1929.

Somehow he got involved in the evacuation of Dunkirk when he and a friend got a small boat to pick up soldiers escaping from France. His friend I know was shot in the arm, but they made it back to Dover.

Re-enlisted 14th Sept. 1940 Yorkshire & Lancashire Regiment.
( At about this time, the Yorks & Lancs were absorbed into the Royal Engineers )


Walter was injured in North Africa. He was shot in the face and had plastic surgery and skin grafts. However, by the time he returned to England, much of this injury had healed, but of course he had a pronouced scar across his cheek. He was awarded the Military Cross about this time.
He spoke both Germany and Arabic fluently, so doubtless this skill was of considerable use in North Africa.

He returned to England early 1944, and trained as a glider pilot. On D-day, he flew gliders carrying airborne commandos into Caen, France. He must have been one of the very few pilots to survive that exercise.

Later in 1944, he returned to UK, and was sent to Scotland. Later he died in the then, military hospital at Buchanan. The cause of death was cancer not war wounds.

Well the Yorkshire & Lancashire Regiment ? noooo

York & Lancater regt yes and the Y&L did not get absorbed into the Royal Engineers in 1940

[Fatherofthree]

And ............... I'm intrigued, what has been discovered in the past 2 years is there a definitive conclusion to this fascinating thread.

Regards
Brian

[Madeline]

Hello,
Walter is my Grandfather. What relation are you to me then? There are conflicting family stories as to what happened to him, but I can let you know what we know.

[Lampwick]

Just resurrecting this thread to see what, if anything, has been found out about it in the last two years.

[Jack8]

I am also interested to know more after reading this thread for the first time.

[BILL DUGGAN]

It's the same badge The York & Lancaster Regiment (not York & Lancashire)

[Lampwick]

I was referring to the identification of the soldier with the many strings to his bow. Has he been identified?

[David Moore]

Hi Mike, your grandfather is a corporal in this picture.

Do you have your grandfathers details such as; full name, DOB and service number. These are good starting points.

Dave Moore