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My father 'Leslie Harry' served in the Royal Artillery from 1940 to 1946. He passed away in March 2003 and following his death several of his personal effects came into my possession. This is a brief summary of his service during WW2. Further details of his regiment's time in North West Europe can be found here:
www.peteharry.net/67MedReg/Default.htm

Leslie Harry was called up June 1940. He was a student at college when called but joined the Army even though he could have deferred his call up. A lot of his mates were already in the army and had been at Dunkirk.

Leslie joined the 35th Signals Training Regiment, Sunnyvale Camp, Rhyl. On completing his training he remained with this unit as an instructor. As D Day neared he was posted to the 67th (Suffolk) Medium Regiment RA (TA) which was located at West Malling in Kent. He was NCO i/c Signals, 232 Battery.

Following D Day the Regiment embarked at London docks and landed in Normandy on June 23rd. The locations and actions that the Regiment were involved in during the campaign in Europe were published in a booklet that was issued to members of the Regiment when hostilities ended. The content of the booklet has been reproduced on the web site.

When WW2 ended in Europe my father spent some time at a British prisoner of war camp near Hamburg, that was used for clearing German prisoners of war. He was sent there because he had studied German at school!

Prior to demob he was posted to Northern Italy on the boarders of the Balkans. He was demobed in June 1946.

On returning from Europe my father brought home several 'souvenir' weapons which his mother handed in to the police during a weapons amnesty!

Peter Harry

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