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  Posted by ritajoh (U10855204) on Monday, 27th June 2011

  My older brother was killed in ww2, he was in the EAST YORKSHIRE regiment, but i vaguely remember that he was in the DURHAM LIGHT INFRANTRY when he went over to france two days after d-day, and him saying that he was amalgamated to the EAST YORKSHIRES. but would that happen or is it a fragment of my imagination

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  Posted by rhmnney (U14528380) on Monday, 27th June 2011

  ritajoh, a soldier could be trained in one regiment then be posted to a different one, one could be posted to a different regiment at will depending on the need to make up numbers for a particular unit, also two regiments or more may be under the same command, such a Brigade, Division, Army etc. Not all soldiers were Canadian or of Canadian regiments in the Canadian Army that took part on D-Day for instance. The basic requirement is to bring a unit up to strength , also county and ethnic regiments are very much intermixed.

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  Posted by LongWeekend (U3023428) on Tuesday, 28th June 2011

  ritajoh
  
  At various times during the war, battalions were broken up and their men posted as replacements to other battalions, not necessarily of their original regiment. At other times, replacements for one regiment would be diverted to battalions of another regiment who did not have enough of their own.
  
  At the end of the Normandy Campaign, because the casualties suffered outstripped replacements, 70 Brigade in 49 (West Riding) Division, which had two battalions of Durham Light Infantry was disbanded and the men posted to other units as replacements (the whole of the 59th Division was broken up at the same time). There was a battalion of the East Yorkshires in 3 Division, to which DLI men could have been posted.
  
  50 (Northumbrian) Division had three battalions of DLI, making up 151 Brigade. It also had a battalion of East Yorks. 50 Div was also stripped of men in October 1944, with some units amalgamating and used as reinforcements, while other men were posted individually. It is more likely your brother moved to the East Yorks at this stage.
  
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  Posted by ritajoh (U10855204) on Wednesday, 29th June 2011

  Thanks for your replies to to my query. i looked out some letters my brother wrote to my mother in 1944, up until about july 1944 my brother was in the DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY after that he was in the EAST YORKSHIRES. Its amazing, the letters naturely were written in pencil, and after all these years were as if they wrote yesterday.

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