Dispatch Riders.

[BobHan]

Hi everybody, I'm new to this forum and have joined to try and find out what I can as regards Dispatch riders especially attached to:-
278/87 Heavy Anti-Aircraft regt RA.

I have just come across my late Brother in Laws papers which include his soldiers service book, diaries, photographs and goodness knows what.
His name was Colin Corbett Richards T/1768890 Born 30-10-1920. He enlisted at Bispham 16-1-1941 and was demobbed 16th March 1946.
I have a record of his whole service from leaving Wakefield to his day of demob and wondered if anybody was at all interested.
The above regiment became 87th Heavy A.A. Regt. R.A. on 7th Nov 1944.
Amongst other things he was a Dispatch rider and would have stood out amongst the ranks as he was 6' 8" tall.
If anyone is at all interested let me know and I will share what I have learnt with you.
I will have a look around this site to see how to post hotographs should they be required.

Cheers, BobHan.

[Tab]

The battery would have consisted of the normal 4 inch Ack Ack guns. Many of these were in static positions around London and other major cities.

[BobHan]

Thank you for that, Colin spent the whole of his service in the Middle East, North Africa and Italy.

Bob.

[Sir Hawkwood]

Served alongside a warrant officer back in the day who was a despatch rider when we had all the big excercises in the 60s to 80s.
He loved doing it and relished riding through Germany on those bikes.