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The Royal Fusilers (City of London Regiment)
Royal Fusiliers - City of London Regiment was formed in 1685 by Lord Dartmouth from two companies of the Tower of London guard,originally called the Ordnance Regiment.
Battalions during the Second World War.
- 1st Battalion
- 2nd Battalion
- 7th Battalion (Royal London Regiment of Militia)
- 8th (1st City of London) Battalion
- 9th (2nd City of London) Battalion
- 11th Battalion
- 12th Battalion
- 13th (Home Defence) Battalion
- 14th (Overseas) Battalion
- 15th Battalion
- 16th Battalion
- 17th Battalion
- 18th Battalion
- 19th Battalion
- 20th Battalion
- 21st Battalion
- 22nd Battalion
- 23rd Battalion
- 30th Battalion
- 122nd Battalion
- 123rd Battalion
- No. 1 Independent Garrison Company
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List of those who served with The Royal Fusilers (City of London Regiment) during The Second World War
- Fusilier Leonard Ballantyne Read his Story.
- Gerald Freeman
- Lt. Ivan George Thornton Pinfield MID. 1st Btn. Read his Story.
Fusilier Leonard Ballantyne Royal Fusiliers
My Grandfather, Leonard Ballantyne was one of the prisoners at Stalag 7a and also Stalag 344. He was captured on the 16/02/1944, ironically on his birthday, at Anzio. He was a Fusilier with the Royal Fusiliers. His prisoner of war number was 128717.
According to information I have received from the Red Cross he arrived in Stalag 7a on 07.04.1944. He left Stalag 7a for Stalag 344 on 02.06.1944 and was present in Stalag 344 on the 06.06.1944 . He eventually managed to escape from Stalag 344 on his second attempt. At this point I do not have any more information.
Since my grandfather passed away in 2000 I am having to trace his war through official records which is a very lengthy process. However I have found the Red Cross a surprising source of Prisoner of War information and through our National Archives am hoping to see his Escape and Evasion interview. If anyone has any further information, photos, stories, anything, it would be greatly appreciated.
Lt. Ivan George Thornton Pinfield MID. 1st Btn. Royal Fusiliers
I joined in 1939, did basic training at Hounslow, and was then the first wartime volunteer to go to Sandhurst. I was there at the time of Dunkirk. Then I was posted to the Royal Fusiliers (City of London) Regiment, 1st Battalion, 4th Indian Division and we embarked for Suez. I saw action in Eritrea, the Western Desert and Palestine, and was seriously wounded whilst in Syria.
After a year in hospital in Jerusalem (nearly losing my right leg - as well as my life), and convalescence in South Africa, I was shipped back to England where I spent the rest of the war on home defence duties. These included: guarding the oil pipeline to France (Winchelsea), counting buzz bombs as they came over, and operating camp facilities for troops in the New Forest during the invasion period.
Whilst I was at Winchelsea, we made sure that every member of the crew took home a fresh Dover Sole when they went on leave! Top Brass used to visit in the expectation of wonderful hospitality (eg fresh eggs and fish)! The country was still heavily rationed at this time.
Finally, as the war ended I had great fun organising open days at Guildford Barracks. I was demobbed and sent up to Olympia to collect a demob suit: these were so awful that the first thing we did when emerging from Olympia was sell the suits for £2.50 to black marketeers lined up outside!
I wish I knew what happened to my unit in Syria after I was wounded, and would love to know their stories.
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