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For those 28 or so of the 24th L that went to the SRY at the start of August 1944...

'994' is for the Royal Dragoon Guards, 8th Armour Brigade And this long list: http://mmpbooks.biz/mmp/tables/Vehicle_Names_V1.pdf ...has...

Probably my "yippee!" find: http://www.panzer-war.com/page45.html (Sadly "not the nicest" looking webpage though :( with odd coloured texts...

Thanks Pat, Will do, I'll have to think hard how to split them into "bite sized" chunks. Perhaps by focusing on the Battle Honours battles...

I tried to understand what was going on for the SRY (and 24th L) in July 1944 but their war diaries are all full of the idyls of farmyard life in...

Did a quick search on IWM website just for SRY: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?query=SRY&submit=&items_per_page=10 And came across...

Thanks for that amazing mosaic "Hans", I'm slightly playing "catch-up" on this one, in which it seems I think that the 24th Lancers lost about...

This is a source I have found helpful in this area: http://www.scribd.com/doc/76337299/British-Tank-Markings-and-Names-1914-1945#scribd It has...

I don't know if anyone has seen "Stephane Jacquet's book Tilly-sur-Seulles 1944 (published by Heimdal) " ? But apparently there is some detail...

Yes, I think that something like 10 British land forces won Battle Honours for the Battle of Tilly-sur-Seulles, and a number of these had Sherman...

I suspect that this might be a 4/7th RDG tank, but I guess that there is a slight chance that it might just be a 24th L one:...

Thanks Pat, I have a little map that shows just where a dozen or so of the German knocked out tanks map to and they all appear to be roughly in a...

I'm trying to work out the parameters for what constituted "the battle of Putot-en-Bessin" in the heads of the British / Canadian's "battle namers...

Lovely stuff, very impressive really. My particular quandary at the moment is how the Germans got into the west end of Rauray. I actually had to...

I've been glancing through the "12th SS - volume 1" book - by Herbert Meyer...

No Pat, afraid not that one's completely new to me! Rm.

Progress so far: Books "The Normandy Campaign 1944: Sixty Years On" edited by John Buckley...

Thanks, Pat, Sean, Re. Rauray, by the looks of it: 1) there was the taking of Rauray - where the tanks of SRY were involved. 1b) Whilst at...

I'm following the SRY's in Normandy (and beyond), but with particular emphasis to the period after the 1st August 1944 - when they were joined by...