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Black Troops during WW2
« on: Sunday 26 May 24 16:36 BST (UK) »
Hello, any chance anyone remembers Black troops in the area during WW2, namely between 1942 and 1944? Thank you, Sandra

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Re: Black Troops during WW2
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 26 May 24 16:40 BST (UK) »
There were a lot of Black troops in the Uk. Just saying in the area and not giving any idea where you are talking about, you can’t expect much help from such a vague request.
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Black Troops during WW2
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 26 May 24 16:53 BST (UK) »
There were a lot of Black troops in the Uk. Just saying in the area and not giving any idea where you are talking about, you can’t expect much help from such a vague request.
Apologies, you are absolutely right:
Hull
17 Special Service Company, 3 Platoon *   Yorkshire, East Riding   
498 Port Battalion (Transportation Corps)
Scorton
595    93 - 86 Station Complement Squadron Yorkshire, North Riding
149    94 -  2197 Quartermaster Truck Company (Aviation)   
86 Station Complement Squadron
74 Service Group, 1 Service Squadron P 
75 Station Complement Squadron     
1224 Quartermaster Company (Service Group), Det A 
1 Service Squadron P
30 Mobile Reclamation and Repair Squadron
86 Station Complement Squadron
425 Night Fighter Squadron 
Potters Hill 
191 Medical Dispensary (Aviation) (Yorkshire, West Riding)   
13 Replacement Control Depot, Squadron C     
331 Station Complement Squadron
591 Army Postal Unit
1515 Quartermaster Truck Bn, 1938 QM Truck Co
1516 Quartermaster Truck Bn, 1950 QM Truck Co, Det A
17 Replacement Control Depot, Squadron O       
635    77 - 17 Replacement Control Depot, Squadron R Y
Wortley       
1912 Ordnance Ammunition Company *               Yorkshire, West Riding         
2104 Quartermaster Truck Company (Aviation)
1961 Ordnance Depot Company, Detachment A
635    77 - 1962 Ordnance Depot Company
635    77 - 2104 Quartermaster Truck Company (Aviation)
HQ Eastern Base Section, Military Police Detachment A
605 Quartermaster Graves Registration Co, 2 Platoon
HQ West Base Section, Military Police Detachment A
Harrogate   
7 General Hospital Yorkshire, West Riding   VE7874
65 General Hospital Medical IET Detachment A   Yorkshire
115 General Hospital   
Detachment of Patients 4198 HP
Leeds         
HQ Eastern Base Section, Military Police Detachment D       
Penistone
364 Engineer General Service Regt, 2 Bn, Company D Yorkshire, West Riding
Holmes       
41 Signal Construction Battalion, Company A Yorkshire, East Riding
Riccall         
990 Engineer Treadway Bridge Company   Yorkshire, East Riding
South Dalton
655    18     7 Signal Center Team Yorkshire, East Riding
Middlesbrough     
564 Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion, HQ Plot Company Yorkshire, North Riding
Middleton   
7 Ordnance Medium Maintenance Company Yorkshire, East Riding
North Burton       
ETO Prisoner of War Encl No 8, Enclosure 8B Yorkshire, East Riding
European Theatre of Ops Prisoner of War Encl No 8 (-) Yorkshire, East Riding

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Re: Black Troops during WW2
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 26 May 24 19:43 BST (UK) »
Hi, Sandra,

I think you'll get a better response posting on the Armed Forces Board, see link below

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/armed-forces/

Contact a moderator to transfer your thread or start a new one on the Army forum.




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Re: Black Troops during WW2
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 26 May 24 19:49 BST (UK) »
Hi, Sandra,

I think you'll get a better response posting on the Armed Forces Board, see link below

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/armed-forces/

Contact a moderator to transfer your thread or start a new one on the Army forum.

Thank you very much, I have opened another post, keeping my fingers crossed as I did not have any info for the past 18 months, it is like they have never existed! Sandra

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