Hi Nivard, Are WW2 Medals listed anywhere he may have been entitled to one. Regards.   Elaine Pickard Sheffield Indexers Site Admin. www.sheffieldindexers.com >________________________________ > From: Nivard Ovington <ovington1@sky.com> >To: yorksgen@rootsweb.com >Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2012 5:48:30 AM >Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] which WW2 regiment? > >Hi Anne > >I have several books on the subject yet failed to find a match for the >badge in the photo > >The nearest I can find is the crossed Kukri badge of the Gurkha >regiments but am not convinced of that > >The photo is very low resolution, is there a chance of a better quality >scan? > >I notice what looks like an XIII badge on his shoulder but again I can >find nothing that fits > >Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > >On 05/07/2012 09:43, Anne Garrison 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 > >

Hi Elaine Although he would certainly be entitled to them there are no WW2 medal rolls available online as far as I know Post 1921 service records which would also state the regiment or regiments are still closed and released only to the next of kin or with their permission and can take quite a time to get (and cost about £30) Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 05/07/2012 13:18, trayford@rogers.com wrote: > Hi Nivard, > > Are WW2 Medals listed anywhere he may have been entitled to one. > > Regards. > Elaine Pickard > Sheffield Indexers Site Admin. > www.sheffieldindexers.com