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9th Jul 1944 Reliefs 10th Jul 1944 Orders 10th Jul 1944 Reliefs 10th Jul 1944 Bombing 11th Jul 1944 Reliefs 11th Jul 1944 Move 11th Jul 1944 Reliefs 11th Jul 1944 Heavy Shelling 12th Jul 1944 Move 12th Jul 1944 Patrols 13th Jul 1944 Shelling 13th Jul 1944 Patrols 14th Jul 1944 Orders 14th Jul 1944 Attack Made 14th Jul 1944 Shelling 15th Jul 1944 Planning 16th Jul 1944 Briefing   Colonel J A Rice-Evans, CO of 4th battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, briefs his officers from his slit trench at battalion HQ before an attack towards Evrecy, 16th of July 1944. © IWM (B 7579) 16th Jul 1944 Paratroopers 16th Jul 1944 Air Raid 17th Jul 1944 Attack Made 17th Jul 1944 Attack Made 17th Jul 1944 Air Raid 18th Jul 1944 Attack Fails 18th Jul 1944 Shelling 19th Jul 1944 Reliefs 19th Jul 1944 Reliefs 20th Jul 1944 Enemy Patrol 21st Jul 1944 Wet Day 21st Jul 1944 Enemy Attacks 22nd Jul 1944 Quiet 22nd Jul 1944 Ground Gained 22nd Jul 1944 Quiet 23rd Jul 1944 Raid 23rd Jul 1944 Recce 23rd Jul 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Active 17th Oct 1944 In Position 20th Oct 1944 Preparations 21st Oct 1944 Under Fire 22nd Oct 1944 Attack Made 22nd Oct 1944 In Action 1st Nov 1944 Raid 11th Nov 1944 Wireless Silence 12th Nov 1944 Moves 17th Nov 1944 Area Cleared 18th Nov 1944 Orders 20th Nov 1944 Conference 21st Nov 1944 In Action 30th Nov 1944 In Action 19th Dec 1944 Orders 20th Dec 1944 Orders 21st Dec 1944 On the Move 22nd Dec 1944 Bridges Held 23rd Dec 1944 Orders 23rd Dec 1944 Bridges Held 24th Dec 1944 Assalts Made 24th Dec 1944 Intelligence 7th Jan 1945 In Action 7th Feb 1945 Equipment 8th Feb 1945 Explosion 10th Apr 1945 Opposition 30th May 1945 Change of Command If you can provide any additional information, especially on actions and locations at specific dates, please add it here. Those known to have served with 53rd (Welsh) Division during the Second World War 1939-1945. Illing Charles. Cpl. Savage Harold Victor. Vale Edward John. A/Capt. The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. Announcements The Wartime Memories Project has been running for 24 years. If you would like to support us, a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting and admin or this site will vanish from the web. 9th May 2024 - Please note we currently have a huge backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. 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