Alan Farr - service history and decorations
Royal Hampshire Regiment
Royal Devon Regiment
Service record - regimental
2 July 1942 – 12 August 1942
14 August 1942 – 10 August 1945
10 August 1945 – 10 May 1947
Devon Regiment
Hampshire Regiment (1st Battalion during D Day landings)
Devon Regiment
Service record - chronology
I have tried to interpret Alan’s rather hard-to-read Army service record from MoD. The table below has the most important milestones (as far as I can tell).
2/7/42
13/8/42
7/12/42
12/8/43
23/8/43
25/8/43
18/10/43
8/11/43
29/11/43
3/2/44
2/6/44
15/12/44
3/2/45
15/2/45
18/5/45
3/7/45
4/7/45
4/7/45
5/10/45
5/11/45
20/1/46
6/8/46
13/5/46
20/1/47
24/2/47
enlisted
transferred to Hampshire Regiment
posted to 11th Battalion Hampshire Regiment
embarked UK
disembarked (presumably Sicily)
entered theatre of operations (Operation Husky)
embarked for UK
admitted to hospital
moved to Y list (i.e. non-effective, casualty)
posted to 1st Battalion Hants Regiment (taken off Y list)
embarked UK (Operation Overlord)
embarked NWE (northwest Europe) for UK
embarked UK for NWE
posted to 7th Battalion Hampshire Regiment
promoted to Acting Corporal
permanently attached 4th Battalion Devonshire Regiment; reappointed Acting Corporal
embarked (NWE for UK presumably)
disembarked UK
awarded 1939/45 Star; Italy Star; France & Germany Star
posted to 14th Holding Battalion
admitted to military hospital Shaftesbury
relinquishes appointment of local Sergeant and reverts to WS/Corporal (war substantive Corporal)
discharged from hospital; posted to 16th Holding Battalion
permanently attached 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regiment
entrained Villach* (Austria) for UK on class A release
* 2nd Battalion Hampshires were stationed in Austria at this time as part of the occupying force, under the command of Lt Col Robinson. See here for more.
Decorations
Testimonial on discharge 22 February 1947:
This NCO is a very efficient worker and has always done his best during the time I have known him. He is an honest and trustworthy worker and no job is too great for him. He is a pleasantly dispositioned man and gets on well with everyone.
1939-45 Star
Italy Star
France & Germany Star
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