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|Surname and forenames=Hymers Douglas
|Army number=896764
|Rank=Gunner
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards
|Date of birth=Not yet ascertained.
|Age=(At time of death).  Not yet known.
|Unit=Enlisted in the 97th Duke of Connaught's Own Kent Yeomanry (TA), Royal Artillery aged 19 on 26/4/1939.  Basic Training carried out at Okehampton Camp, Devon.  Passed Laying Test - First Class - July 1939.  Transferred to 143rd Field Regiment September 1939.  Served Iceland 1940 - 1942.  Transferred to 185 Field Regiment 21/12/1942.  Based at Pontypridd, Wales.  Posted to 3 Field Training Regiment 10/5/1943.  Posted to 180 Field Regiment 18/4/1943.  Posted to 173 Field Regiment 28/8/1943.    Posted to 117 Field Regiment 18/12/1944.   Based at Cromer.  Struck off Strength on posting overseas (Middle East).  Posted to Draft RAJOM 27/10/1945.  Posted to X List (1) Middle East 2/12/1945.  Y Release 8/4/1946.  Relegated to Z. T. Reserve 27/6/1946 and demobilised.
|Company/Battery=386 Battery - 143rd Regiment.  138 Battery at Cromer.
|Platoon or other sub-unit="A" Troop 386 Battery.
|Task or role=Gun number, No.1.on gun, Gunnery Instructor.
|Joined Brigade=When 143rd Regiment was first in support of the Brigade in Iceland at Alafoss.
|Promotions=Lance Bombardier.  Bombardier.  Lance Sergeant.  Sergeant.
|Wounded=Deafened during a live-firing Exercise in Iceland on 10/4/1942 - caused some permanent deafness.
|Prisoner of War=No.
|Died/Killed in action=Died 5/2/1995.
|Home address=LIved at 229 Newtown, Ashford, Kent. 
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Information on this Page has been extracted from the Royal Artillery Tracer Card found for this soldier on Ancestry.co.uk and also material and photographs submitted by his son.