Has anyone heard of the 31st Battalion in Lichfield in WW2 please?

[Anniek]

Hi.
I think you said he enlisted in Llay which is near Wrexham. Was he from that area.
and where was your Grandmother from, as it appears they got married in Buckley Nr Chester. which is not that far from Llay, about 7-8 miles ish.
I noticed that he had leave 1 to 8/4/42 and again 1 to 7/8/42 and they were married on 26/9/42.
If she was on leave also, is it possible that they met at a dance locally.


ivor

no she was from Tyneside so nowhere near Wales.

[Anniek]

ah ok - 11 became 14 and then 31

So many of them had to change numbers and names etc I suppose due to lots of casualties and amalgamations with others.

thank you everyone, I appreciate it, I am learning so much about it all. I didn't do history GCSE and that was the only time they covered WW1 or WW2 at school (disgraceful really) so I only know what I have read about myself or been told by my parents.

It is interesting, my mum is now remembering lots of little stories she was told over the years by other relatives too about their times in the war, so far we have had one about a very grumpy horse in WW1 that used to stamp on people's feet and one about a great uncle who was charged for leaving his gun in Dunkirk and then the accidental fatal US dropping of oil drums on my Grandma's ATS parade. I am writing them all down, they might be little stories of no significance but they are history for my children.

[ivor43]

hi.
Sorry i misread the entry it appears to be Bucklow. Nr Chester. I think it should read Bucklow Hill see following link

http://www.myweather2.com/City-Town/...-Hill/map.aspx

very near to High Legh.But what he would be doing there, another mystery.


ivor

[ivor43]

ok.
maybe not such a mystery.

http://www.tattonpark.org.uk/PDF/WWI...tion_Sheet.pdf

[Anniek]

I have just looked at the other sheet which records my mum being born and the marriage and it says Chester for the marriage so that sounds like it.

Amazing how many of these large parks/houses/estates exist really.

[Drew5233]

Battalion war diaries at the National Archives: WO 166/8937 31 Royal Welch Fusiliers 1942 Jan.- Dec and WO 166/12771 31 Royal Welch Fusiliers 1943 Jan.-Dec.