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    1. Re: [YORKSGEN] which WW2 regiment?
    2. Nivard Ovington
    3. 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

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