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Welsh Guards 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards 2nd Battalion, Welsh Guards 3rd Battalion, Welsh Guards 17th May 1940 In Defence 20th May 1940 In Defence 20th May 1940 Enemy Attacks 20th May 1940 Orders 21st May 1940 In Defence 21st May 1940 Intelligence 21st May 1940 Orders 22nd May 1940 Counter Attack 22nd May 1940 Defensive Positions 23rd May 1940 Hold at All Costs 23rd May 1940 In Action 24th May 1940 On the March 24th May 1940 In Defence 24th May 1940 Last Stand 25th May 1940 Last Stand 27th May 1940 In Action 6th Jan 1944 On the Move 3rd Feb 1944 Exercise 4th Feb 1944 Exercise 9th Feb 1944 Address 14th Feb 1944 Orders 15th Feb 1944 Exercise 16th Feb 1944 Exercise 17th Feb 1944 Exercise 18th Feb 1944 Exercise 19th Feb 1944 Exercise 20th Feb 1944 Exercise 21st Feb 1944 Exercise 22nd Feb 1944 Exercise 23rd Feb 1944 Exercise 24th Feb 1944 Exercise 25th Feb 1944 At Rest 17th Mar 1944 Inspection 22nd Mar 1944 Visit 31st Mar 1944 Inspection   Cromwell Mk IV named Blenheim, commander by Major John Ogilvie Spencer, No. 2 Squadron, 2nd (Armoured Reconnaissance) Battalion, Welsh Guards, at Pickering in Yorkshire, 31st of March 1944, displays its speed during an inspection by Winston Churchill. © IWM (H 37168) 12th Apr 1944 Exercise 30th May 1944 Church Parade 31st May 1944 Orders 28th Jun 1944 In Position 29th Jun 1944 Attack Launched 29th Jun 1944 Recce 30th Jun 1944 Patrols 30th Jun 1944 Reliefs 30th Jun 1944 On the Move 1st Jul 1944 Orders 1st Jul 1944 On the Move 2nd Jul 1944 Orders 17th Jul 1944 Orders 18th Jul 1944 On the Move 19th Jul 1944 Counterattack 20th Jul 1944 In Action 24th Jul 1944 Orders 25th Jul 1944 Attack Made 26th Jul 1944 Digging in 30th Jul 1944 In Action 31st Jul 1944 Advance 1st Aug 1944 In Action 4th Aug 1944 Attacks Made 6th Aug 1944 In Action 10th Aug 1944 On the Move 11th Aug 1944 Attack Made 26th Aug 1944 Boxing 28th Aug 1944 Orders 29th Aug 1944 On the Move 30th Aug 1944 On the Move 31st Aug 1944 On the Move 1st Sep 1944 Advance 1st Sep 1944 Prisoners 2nd Sep 1944 Orders 2nd Sep 1944 Air Attack 3rd Sep 1944 On the Move 3rd Sep 1944 Advance 4th Sep 1944 Road Cleared 5th Sep 1944 Rumours 6th Sep 1944 Advance 6th Sep 1944 Canal Crossed 7th Sep 1944 In Defence 7th Sep 1944 Canal Crossed 8th Sep 1944 In Action 8th Sep 1944 Hard Fighting 10th Sep 1944 Attack Made 12th Sep 1944 Patrols 13th Sep 1944 Attack Made 13th Sep 1944 Ground Gained 14th Sep 1944 Rest 17th Sep 1944 Orders 17th Sep 1944 On the Move 18th Sep 1944 Advance 18th Sep 1944 Air Raid and Artillery 18th Sep 1944 Advance 19th Sep 1944 Advance 19th Sep 1944 Recce 19th Sep 1944 Orders 20th Sep 1944 Advance 20th Sep 1944 Bridge Inspected 21st Sep 1944 Advance 21st Sep 1944 On the Move 21st Sep 1944 In Action 22nd Sep 1944 Moves 23rd Sep 1944 Attack Made 24th Sep 1944 Reliefs 25th Sep 1944 Defence 26th Sep 1944 Prisoners 26th Sep 1944 In Action 27th Sep 1944 Patrols 28th Sep 1944 Reports 29th Sep 1944 Bridge Damaged 30th Sep 1944 Move 1st Oct 1944 Threat 2nd Oct 1944 Shelling 3rd Oct 1944 Maps 6th Oct 1944 On the Move 10th Oct 1944 Orders 13th Oct 1944 Lecture 14th Oct 1944 Postings 15th Oct 1944 Preparations 20th Oct 1944 Illness 21st Oct 1944 Inspection 22nd Oct 1944 Inspection 23rd Oct 1944 Evacuated 25th Oct 1944 Lecture 30th Oct 1944 Reliefs 3rd Nov 1944 Reliefs 12th Nov 1944 Moves 18th Nov 1944 Patrols 19th Nov 1944 Orders 20th Nov 1944 In Action 31st of December 1944 Operations 1st of January 1945 Codenames 1st of January 1945 Patrols 1st of January 1945 Positions 2nd of January 1945 Communications 7th of January 1945 Orders 17th Jan 1945 Attack 3rd Feb 1945  Demonstration 10th Feb 1945  Slow Progress 22nd Feb 1945  Reliefs 3rd May 1945 Address 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 Welsh Guards during the Second World War 1939-1945. Furness VC. Christopher. (d.24th May 1940) Jenkins D. Jones William Henry . Obrien J S. Passmore W C. L/Cpl. Sowerby Stanley. Pte. 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 Welsh Guards 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. 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. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 264033 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 Welsh Guards? There are:1458 items tagged Welsh Guards 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. L/Cpl. W C Passmore 49th Regiment Reconnaissance Corps L/Cpl.W Passmore served with the 49th Regiment Reconnaissance Corps 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. J S Obrien Welsh Guards J Obrien served with the Welsh Guards 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. D Jenkins Welsh Guards D Jenkins served with the Welsh Guards 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. William Henry "Taf" Jones 2nd btn. Welsh guards My father William H Jones was in Dunkirk rearguard action, a prisoner for 5 years sent to marionburg stalag xx20 plus some different camps on the way up to Poland. He was injured in Dunkirk and reported missing. He had a scar under his chin never we never knew how he got it, he didn’t tell my mother. He had a small bible he use the paper to roll some cigarettes. When the long march came he had some old boots that he kept on for weeks, he managed to escape with 2 Americans and a Polish man hidden in side some large pipes for what seemed forever. They were rescued by the American army and flew home in a American Bomber, looking down through the bomb bay. The bomber was called MISFORTUNE. He came home and got off the train in our village and people had come to meet him, he was so thin he wasn’t recognised. CARYS Jones Evans Add to this record. Pte. Stanley Sowerby 2nd Btn. Welsh Guards Stanley Sowerby was my mother's uncle. He was captured at Dunkirk and spent the rest of the war at a prisoner of war camp in Poland. I remember him from when I was a little girl until my late 20s. My mother has told us that she used to write letters to him while he was at the camp. He did not talk about his experiences when he came home. He died in 2000, aged 89. Jenny Pullar Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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