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6th Royal Tank Regiment    6th Royal Tank Regiment were in Egypt when war broke out in 1939. They saw action in the Western Desert with 7th Armoured Division. 4th Sep 1939 Censorship 8th Sep 1939 Posting 13th Sep 1939 Inspection 15th Sep 1939 Move 17th Sep 1939 Change of Command 19th Sep 1939 Rations 21st Sep 1939 New CO 31st Oct 1939 Excerises 7th Nov 1939 Reorganisation 8th Nov 1939 Storm 9th Nov 1939 Poor Weather 10th Nov 1939 Salvage 11th Nov 1939 Course 14th Nov 1939 Promotions 15th Nov 1939 Reorganisation 16th Nov 1939 Orders 17th Nov 1939 Equipment 18th Nov 1939 Football 19th Nov 1939 Course 21st Nov 1939 On the Move 22nd Nov 1939 On the Move 23rd Nov 1939 On the Move 20th Dec 1939 Reorganisation 21st Dec 1939 Accident 25th Dec 1939 Festivities 27th Dec 1939 Report 30th Dec 1939 Reorganisation 6th Jan 1940 Tanks 8th Jan 1940 Attachments 14th Jan 1940 Orders 15th Jan 1940 Missing 18th Jan 1940 Demonstration 19th Jan 1940 Search 20th Jan 1940 Draft 23rd Jan 1940 Reinforcements 27th Jan 1940 Exercise 31st Jan 1940 On the Move 3rd Feb 1940 Exercise 5th Feb 1940 Training 8th 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Action 17th Jun 1941 Artillery in Action 18th Jun 1941 On the Move 19th Jun 1941 Reorganisation 20th Jun 1941 Reorganisation 21st Jun 1941 Reorganisation 22nd Jun 1941 Reorganisation 29th Jun 1941 Orders 30th Jun 1941 On the Move 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 6th Royal Tank Regiment during the Second World War 1939-1945. Billingham TJ. L.Sgt. Bolan JJ. Bowman DC. Donhou Frederick William. Tpr. (d.21st November 1941) Drake SC. Hancock Denys Hallen. 2nd Lt. (d.20th November 1941) Hennessy JR . Holmes George Henry James. Sgt Langthorne H. Lingwood EH. Nicholson J. L/Cpl. Parker EL. Paske RW. Sanigar D. Seymour Thomas James. Tpr. 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 Records of 6th Royal Tank Regiment from other sources. 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. 14th 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. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 264114 your information is still in the queue, please do not resubmit, we are working through them as quickly as possible. Looking for help with Family History Research?   Please read our Family History FAQs The free to access section of The Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers and funded by donations from our visitors. If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation. Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the War? Our Library contains an ever growing number diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. We are now on Facebook. Like this page to receive our updates. If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page. Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to WW2. We would like to obtain digital copies of any documents or photographs relating to WW2 you may have at home. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. World War 1 One ww1 wwII second 1939 1945 battalion Did you know? We also have a section on The Great War. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. Want to know more about 6th Royal Tank Regiment? There are:686 items tagged 6th Royal Tank Regiment available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War. D Sanigar 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment D Sanigar served with the 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project are no longer in touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below. Dan Add to this record. RW Paske 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment RW Paske served with the 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project are no longer in touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below. Dan Add to this record. EL Parker 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment EL Parker served with the 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project are no longer in touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below. Dan Add to this record. L/Cpl. J Nicholson 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment L/Cpl.J Nicholson served with the 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project are no longer in touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below. Dan Add to this record. EH Lingwood 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment EH Lingwood served with the 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project are no longer in touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below. Dan Add to this record. H Langthorne 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment H Langthorne served with the 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project are no longer in touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below. Dan Add to this record. JR Hennessy 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment JR Hennessy served with the 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project are no longer in touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below. Dan Add to this record. SC Drake 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment SC Drake served with the 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project are no longer in touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below. Dan Add to this record. DC Bowman 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment DC Bowman served with the 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project are no longer in touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below. Dan Add to this record. JJ Bolan 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment JJ Bolan served with the 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project are no longer in touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below. Dan Add to this record. L.Sgt. TJ Billingham 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment L.Sgt.TJ Billingham served with the 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project are no longer in touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below. Dan Add to this record. Tpr. Frederick William "Don" Donhou 6th Btn., B squadron Royal Tank Regiment (d.21st November 1941) Don Donhou was killed at the Battle of Sidi Rezegh on 21st/22nd of November 1941. A Donhou Add to this record. Tpr. Thomas James Seymour MM,MiD. 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment My father, Thomas James Seymour, was born in 1920 in Newcastle upon Tyne. He joined the Territorial Army in 1937 and in 1940 was sent to the Western Desert, (El Alamein). He was involved in the early part of the campaign when things were going badly. On 7th of July 1942 in the area of Ruweisat Ridge his lorry was shelled and badly damaged. Showing no regard for personal danger, he changed 2 damaged wheels under fire and refused to go back to the A1 Echalon, but went forward over a minefield to replenish the tanks which were heavily engaged in action. His lorry was again shelled, and he was ordered to off-load ammunition from the lorry and make a dump which he did single-handedly. His commander was Lieutenant Colonel Liardet. My father was awarded the Military Medal. The officer who was involved in this incident received the George medal. My father was also Mentioned in Dispatches and has an oak leaf and bar decoration. I only know most of this because I got a copy of the original citation. My father did not talk about the awful things that happened until the 2 years before his death at the age of 97. Any mention of his time at El Alamein would make him very upset. I do remember my father telling me that he saw Auchinleck sitting up against a truck, I also remember him telling me that he thought Auchinleck had done a really good job, and was sorry when he was dismissed. He was very friendly with another recruit from Newcastle. He showed my father a picture of his youngest sister. He started to write to her and on return to Tyneside they met and married! His friend Steve was now my uncle Steve and when they got together they would regale us with funny stories about their experiences. Neither of them told us how awful it was. On a final note, he had been given an order to drive an armoured car over a bridge that was not safe. He told the officer that it wouldn't hold the lorry. On feeling the bridge give way he jumped out and the lorry was lost in a river. He was told he would be in great trouble for losing the lorry. A while later, on being summoned to the Colonel's tent, he was told before entering to salute and say 'Thank you'. Expecting to be told what would happen as a result of losing the truck, he was told instead that he had been recommended for the Military Medal. He heard no more about the lost lorry! Margaret Haughton Add to this record. 2nd Lt. Denys Hallen Hancock 6th Royal Tank Regiment Royal Tank Corps (d.20th November 1941) Second Lieutenant Denys Hancock, lost his life on 20th of November 1941 at the battle of Sidi Rezegh in North Africa, His father and brother were also in the military. His brother, Clarence Henry Bramley Hancock, was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross (USA). He was a captain in the RFA. As a FOO he was awarded his medal for gallantry during the battle for Suggerath, Germany. His father, Ralph Hancock was a successful and famous landscape architect. Robin Hull Add to this record. Sgt George Henry James Holmes 6th.Royal Tank Regt My father, George Holmes, served in the 6th.RTR in the Middle East through the North African campaign, Palestine and thence into Italy. He saw action at Sidi Rezegh where his closest friend John 'Nip' Friar was killed.He was also at Tobruk and El Alamein. When Dad came home he spoke little about his experiences through the war and my Mother always said he was not the same man who went away in 1940.He suffered mood swings and was often an angry man and it was until 1957 when I went into the RAF that he actually started to speak of what he had seen and done. I realise now that he, like so many of our fathers and grandfathers was suffering what is now known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Having read a number of letters in the Wartime Memories Project entries for a number of Regimenrs this has become a very noticeable symptom described by many of the letter writers. My hope is that there will be an end to wars and the terrible affect to families of those serving soldiers when they return home. Alan Holmes Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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