Buried with them were military insignia of the Dorsetshire Regiment and the Bedfordshire Regiment. Examination of war records and data undertaken by the MOD’s Joint Casualty and Compassionate ...

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Soldiers of the anti-tank platoon of the 1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment aboard a landing craft as it approaches Gold Beach on D-Day. (Keep Military Museum) He added in an email that the 1st ...

The regiment drew mainly from northern England but also included men born in Surrey, Dorset and Nottingham. The soldiers were reburied with full military honours at a Commonwealth War Graves ...