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Harold Victor "Darkie" Savage
British Army 82nd Battery, 25th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery
from:Portslade
Our late Grandfather, Harold Savage, known as Darkie, was with 82nd Battery, 25th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment from their early days in Liverpool as Bofors gunners.
They went via Durban by troopship to the Suez Canal and 25th LAA Regiment joined 50th Division in the desert and stayed with them until Rommel's Afrika Korps was defeated.
He fought at Alamein and in the Invasion of Sicily.
He then returned to the UK and underwent training in East Anglia for D Day. 50th Division was the spearhead division assaulting Gold Beach and liberated Bayeux.
The Regiment fought into N. W. Europe, 82nd Battery was at the front of the Allied column attempting to relieve the beleaguered troops at Arnhem.
When 50th Division was returned to the UK to become a training division having suffering high numbers of casualties, 25th LAA Regiment joined 53 (Welsh) Division to continue towards Germany and were part of the Crossing of the Rhine, Battle of the Bulge and Battle of the Reichswald Forest.
The reached the Hamburg area at the time of the German surrender.
The Regiment remained in Germany for civilian policing duties after the war ended.