Anne Sorry that should be 12th Lancers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_Royal_Lancers Tony Sent from my iPad On 5 Jul 2012, at 09:43, "Anne Garrison" <Anne@argarrison.plus.com> wrote: > I am trying to work out which regiment my Uncle, Leslie Davey served in during WW2. > Although he lived almost all of his life in Spofforth (between Harrogate & Wetherby), I remember my Aunt (his wife) saying that he was called up to a London regiment as he was working in London at the time. > I have a photo which shows a cap badge, I have found a lot of sites with cap badges (mostly wanting to sell them) but I haven’t found anything similar. I have put the photo on some webspace at http://www.argarrison.plus.com/ . > > I have sent for his birth certificate so will know his date of birth, I think that he was called up in 1939 and served in North Africa and through Italy, there is also a story that he was demobbed in Italy and had to make his own way home but I don’t know how true that is. > > With so little to go on am I likely to be able to find any more information? > > I now have my Aunts engagement ring and the receipt from Leech's Jewellers in Beulah Street Harrogate dated November 1939 - cost £9, they were married in November 1945. > > Anne Garrison > Reading, Berkshire UK > ..... > Ancestors in Yorkshire? http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/index.html; > www.ryedalefamilyhistory.org; www.wharfedalefhg.org.uk; > www.yorkshireparishregisters.com; www.yorkshireroots.org.uk; > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to YORKSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message