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140th (5th London) Army Field Regiment, Royal Artillery

Their story between the 10th and 31st May 1940

  • Home
  • About this Site
  • Introduction and Biographies
    • Route map
    • War Diary
    • Grand Party- Lt Colonel Graham Brooks MC
    • Lt Col Cedric J. Odling TD
    • Major Nevill Christopherson TD MC
    • Major Cecil (‘Tommy’) Hood RA
    • Major Edward Milton TD
    • Captain F.N. ‘Paddy’ Sirkett
    • Captain Coll Lorne MacDougall
    • Lieutenant Ronald Baxter
    • 2nd Lieutenant Robert Crichton-Brown
    • 2nd Lieutenant Dennis Clarke
    • Sergeant Frank Felstead
    • Sergeant Alfred Sheppard
    • Gunner Eric Johnson
    • Gunner Leonard Stringer
    • Bombardier Arthur Ross
    • Driver Bernard Hirst
    • Brigadier the Hon Nigel Somerset CBE, DSO, MC
    • Major Ronald Cartland MP
  • About the 140th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
  • Dursley to France, December 1939- 2nd March 1940
  • 2nd March to 21st May 1940
    • First Casualty, 10th April 1940
    • Joining the BEF’s Advance into Belgium 10th May 1940
    • First Action- River Dyle 10th-15th May 1940
    • Withdrawal from the Dyle line 16th to 18th May 1940
    • Action at Wannehain 19th to 21st May 1940
    • Finds at Ere
  • 22nd May to 31st May 1940
    • Sainghin-en-Melantois 22nd May 1940
    • 366 Battery’s Journey to Dunkirk via Messines
    • 367 Battery joins Macforce, May 23rd 1940
    • Cassel- the BEF’s ‘Alamo’
    • Somerforce in Cassel 25th May 1940
    • Cassel 26th-27th May 1940
    • Cassel 28th May 1940
    • Cassel 29th May 1940
    • East Riding Yeomanry at Cassel
  • Cassel aftermath, 30th May 1940 onwards
  • Lt. George Somerwill’s Diary
  • The Breakout from Cassel
    • The Breakout (part 1 of 2)
    • The Breakout (part 2 of 2)
    • Breakout- East Riding Yeomanry
    • Watou and the Temporary Burial Ground
    • Breakout Walk to Watou
    • Battle of Cassel- a Virtual 80th Anniversary Reunion
  • 367 Battery- ‘The Ones Who Got Away’
  • Breakout – Prisoners of War
  • Captivity- Officers of the Regiment, 1940-45
  • Captivity- Stalag VIIIB and E72, 1940-45
  • 140th Regiment re-forms 1940-44
  • Norman Gibbs’ Diary
    • Norman Gibbs’ Diary- Part 2
    • Norman Gibbs’ Diary- Part 3
    • Norman Gibbs’ Diary – The Long March (1)
    • Norman Gibbs’ Diary- The Long March Part 2
  • Liberation 1945
  • Norman Gibbs’ Diary- Liberation
  • Eric West 1919-1992, and Geoffrey West 1924-1946
  • In Dunkirk’s Grim Days
  • In Memoriam – 140th Field Rgt Royal Artillery
  • Acknowledgements & Links
  • Contact

 

 

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