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Sgt. William Victor Ferdinand
British Army Middlesex Yeomanry Royal Corps of Signals
from:Ilford, London
My father Bill Ferdinand started in the TA in 1939 in Chelsea. He was a despatch rider in 1940 and served in Palestine and Egypt. He was posted to 6th Div Signals in 1941, and then to 12 Corps Signals in 1944. Bill served in Normandy in June 1944 and thereafter in Belgium and Germany.
My father returned to England 1945 and was discharged in February 1946. (Bill's father also served with the Middlesex Yeomanry in WW1.)