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- A Roughrider's Story
- People in story:听
- Anthony Irving Pinkham M.C.,TD
- Location of story:听
- St. Valery en Caux, France, May 1940
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A2314324
- Contributed on:听
- 19 February 2004
Determined to follow in the tradition of my Grandfather and Father before me, I belied my age and joined the Territorial Army City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders)R.H.A at the age of 17 on 15 August 1937. Both Grandfather and Father had been magnificent horsemen but, after only four rides at the Army School in St. John's Wood, to my disappointment the unit became mechanised. At some stage, it was mooted that the regiment was to receive Daimler Scout cars and adapt a role of reconnaissance duties but nothing came of it. Instead it was converted into a light anti-aircraft unit.
At the beginning of 1940, another battery relieved us of our duties of protection of the radar installations along the East Coast and we moved to Bere Regis in Dorset. We discovered that we were to form part of a new light anti-aircraft/anti-tank regiment, comprising two batteries of each, in support of the newly formed 1st Armoured Division and that we were to go to France immediately.
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