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Post by connie on Jan 17, 2009 14:53:29 GMT -5
Hi,
Here's another thread... The digs for the various units in England...
The division was spread around a section of the English Midlands while they prepared for their move to the continent. I think that most of the Field Artillery got to experience British military barracks with concrete floors and little (tiny coal stoves) or no heat and light...
Connie
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Post by gfgrant8443 on Jan 19, 2009 20:10:46 GMT -5
My father's batallion was billeted in quanset huts, but in his letters did not specify exactly where.
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Post by connie on Feb 27, 2009 20:39:24 GMT -5
Just read another account of someone in the division who was in Quonset huts. As your Dad was in the 422nd, this account may give a clue as to your father's location. This fellow was in 3rd Platoon Company A of the 422nd Regiment. He said they were located in Fairford England and mentioned it was hilly country. He mentioned that when they got passes they took a train to Oxford. Of course, the whole division was spread out over a 200 square mile area of England -- in a variety of accommodations, lest anyone reading this think that this note nails down their parent's accommodations. But, maybe it comes close for you...? Anyway, it was helpful to read of the quonset hut accommodations. Yours was the first mention I had had of these. My father's batallion was billeted in quanset huts, but in his letters did not specify exactly where. |
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Post by floydragsdale on Feb 28, 2009 21:46:30 GMT -5
Hello:
Hello
Company G, 2nd Btn, 424th Regiment was billeted in Quonset Huts on the outskirts a Village named Adderbury, very close to Banbury, in the County of Northampton shire.
When I was in Jr. High School, I remember a poem about "riding a white horse to the Banbury Cross" in England.
Oxford, England was not too far away as several of us got a 12 hour pass to Oxford while we were stationed at Adderbury. I had a tour of Magdalene College, in Oxford that day; went to a movie in the afternoon and had dinner at an English Restaurant that evening & was back in Adderbury, all in 12 hours.
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Post by connie on Mar 3, 2009 12:19:10 GMT -5
Hi, Floyd,
This is an interesting look at life in England. You packed a lot into a day!
I think that those who arrived on the two earlier ships probably had a little more time for getting off base than those who arrived with the Wakefield (November 17th.) Several from this bunch ( division artillery, band, engineers, special forces) noted only having the chance to slip out once or twice for an hour or two. They talked of English pubs -- all that was available in the evening hours-- and warm bitter ale. I also heard word from some in Gloucester area that the movie houses there were filled by Italian POWs who got out of work early...
Connie
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