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Cosmo Smallpiece:
Good catch on the HHC meaning!


I went back to my source on the US serviceman. Turns out to have been a Canadian. Mea culpa. The scandal was slightly worse than I had recalled in the story too! I thought it inappropriate to ask how big this guy's hands were, Castle261, sorry.

johnfilmer:
The HHC in Bryan’s insignia appears to stand for Headquarters and Headquarters Command. So he would have been involved more in the organisation and smooth running of the Battalion.


Could that mean he was left in England?

Cosmo Smallpiece:
The 264th Regiment was only in the UK for a month. Arrived 26th November 1944, landed France one month later. If your chap never went to the continent then perhaps there remained a UK depot for the 66th Division. Something like a training establishment or filtering recovered injured back to units? If so another angle may be to look for accounts of other soldiers in combat with 66th/264th and see if they mention how replacements or wounded were returned?

Dave Smith:
johnfilmer. Almost a " needle in a haystack" situation, although somewhere I'm sure there is a history of every member of the U.S. Forces stationed in the UK during the war, based on their service number. In the same way you can trace any member of the British Armed Forces- that number is there for ever & ever as they are never duplicated. May I suggest a start at the U.S.Embassy in London, they are usually very helpful & will put you on the right track to progress further.

MartinR:
Minor correction: the link should be https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/66th_Infantry_Division_(United_States) or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/66th_Infantry_Division_(United_States) if you prefer the full screen version.
@John, members of the WLA could be sent to any part of the country, so are you sure they were Kentish woods?  Just a thought, probably wrong.

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