RWF WW2 POW Grandfather research

[ladyC]

Thats amazing! thank you! Havent come across this name yet.

Ive actually just found a family member who has a huge lever arch file of family birth/deaths/marriages dating back to 1328 and living in Taunton Somerset. They came to this country in 1328 from Ghent which was then Flanders (now Belgium). They were wool workers and they fled from their country to here to avoid religious persecution.

Frederick Keirl was my Great Grandfathers brothers son who was possibly in QRR.

I will get back if there is any history involved in the RWF at all!

Kind Regards,

C Rowley

[ladyC]

Hi,

Found out his possible service number from first marriage certificate his number is : 3959526 although second cert states 38.. (not sure why)
He was a CQMS & his wife was a canteen assistant for N.A.A.F.I. So I'm told.

Only states him as Welsh Regiment.

Still unable to find anything on him. So I will hurry the process along for gaining his record.

Kind Regards

C R Rowley

[ap1]

Ok, well done. He has to be "2nd Welch" Not RWF of course. Here we go……

Wiki:

The 2nd Battalion had been retained in India but in October 1944 the battalion moved to Burma as part of the 62nd Indian Infantry Brigade attached to the 19th Indian Infantry Division where it joined the British Fourteenth Army, led by Bill Slim. The Battalion saw its bitterest fighting along the Taungoo-Mawchi Road where for a hundred miles, with deep jungle on either side, the Japanese defended vigorously all the way. In November the battalion crossed the Chindwin River at Sittang, captured Pinlebu and saw some very hard fighting on the Swebo Plain.^[13]