Hymers Douglas Lance Sergeant 896764 - Revision history

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 |Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards
 |Date of birth=Born 19/4/1920.  Birth registered West Ashford, Kent.  Mother's maiden surname Harris.
-|Age=(At time of death).  Not yet known.
+|Age=74 at the time of his death.
 |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.   Based at Pontypridd, Wales from April 1942 on return from Iceland.  Transferred to 185 Field Regiment 21/12/1942.  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.  Posted to Sidi Bishr Transit Camp - on staff.  Returned to the U.K.  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.

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 [[File:Personal_image_2.jpg|400px|thumb|left|Sgt Hymers wearing battledress with early pattern Polar Bear Divisional Patch]]
-[[File:25_pounder_and_Gunlayer.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Sgt Hymers in 25 pdr Gunlayer's seat]]
+[[File:25_pounder_and_Gunlayer.jpg|600px|thumb|right|Sgt Hymers in 25 pdr Gunlayer's seat]]
-[[File:25_pounder_Quad_and_Sgt_Hymers.jpg|400px|thumb|left|Sgt Hymers leaning on Quad towing vehicle]]
+[[File:25_pounder_Quad_and_Sgt_Hymers.jpg|600px|thumb|left|Sgt Hymers leaning on Quad towing vehicle]]
 [[File:Fatigue_Party_1.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Fatigue Party in Icelandic Winter with their truck]]

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 Various photographs featuring Sgt Hymers, or taken by him, have been included on the Website - on this Page, on the War Diary for 143rd Field Regiment and on the Alafoss Page in the Iceland section.
-[[File:Personal_image_2.jpg|400px|thumb|left|Sgt Hymers in Iceland wearing battledress with early pattern Polar Bear Divisional Patch]]
+[[File:Personal_image_2.jpg|400px|thumb|left|Sgt Hymers wearing battledress with early pattern Polar Bear Divisional Patch]]
 [[File:25_pounder_and_Gunlayer.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Sgt Hymers in 25 pdr Gunlayer's seat]]

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 [[File:Personal_image_2.jpg|400px|thumb|left|Sgt Hymers in Iceland wearing battledress with early pattern Polar Bear Divisional Patch]]
-[[File:http:25_pounder_and_Gunlayer.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Sgt Hymers in 25 pdr Gunlayer's seat]]
+[[File:25_pounder_and_Gunlayer.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Sgt Hymers in 25 pdr Gunlayer's seat]]
 [[File:25_pounder_Quad_and_Sgt_Hymers.jpg|400px|thumb|left|Sgt Hymers leaning on Quad towing vehicle]]
 [[File:Fatigue_Party_1.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Fatigue Party in Icelandic Winter with their truck]]

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	Various photographs featuring Sgt Hymers, or taken by him, have been included on the Website - on this Page, on the War Diary for 143rd Field Regiment and on the Alafoss Page in the Iceland section.		Various photographs featuring Sgt Hymers, or taken by him, have been included on the Website - on this Page, on the War Diary for 143rd Field Regiment and on the Alafoss Page in the Iceland section.

−	[[File:Personal_image_2.jpg\|400px\|thumb\|~~centre~~\|Sgt Hymers in Iceland wearing battledress with early pattern Polar Bear Divisional Patch]]	+	[[File:Personal_image_2.jpg\|400px\|thumb\|left\|Sgt Hymers in Iceland wearing battledress with early pattern Polar Bear Divisional Patch]]
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		+	[[File:http:25_pounder_and_Gunlayer.jpg\|400px\|thumb\|right\|Sgt Hymers in 25 pdr Gunlayer's seat]]
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		+	[[File:25_pounder_Quad_and_Sgt_Hymers.jpg\|400px\|thumb\|left\|Sgt Hymers leaning on Quad towing vehicle]]
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		+	[[File:Fatigue_Party_1.jpg\|400px\|thumb\|right\|Fatigue Party in Icelandic Winter with their truck]]

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	Various photographs featuring Sgt Hymers, or taken by him, have been included on the Website - on this Page, on the War Diary for 143rd Field Regiment and on the Alafoss Page in the Iceland section.		Various photographs featuring Sgt Hymers, or taken by him, have been included on the Website - on this Page, on the War Diary for 143rd Field Regiment and on the Alafoss Page in the Iceland section.
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		+	[[File:Personal_image_2.jpg\|400px\|thumb\|centre\|Sgt Hymers in Iceland wearing battledress with early pattern Polar Bear Divisional Patch]]

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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, Paul Hymers, to whom we are very grateful.		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, Paul Hymers, to whom we are very grateful.
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		+	Various photographs featuring Sgt Hymers, or taken by him, have been included on the Website - on this Page, on the War Diary for 143rd Field Regiment and on the Alafoss Page in the Iceland section.

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 |Died/Killed in action=Died 5/2/1995.  Death registered Ashford, Kent February 1995.
 |Home address=Married Dorothy E. Dagless in Ashford.  Marriage registered January 1959.  Lived at 229 Newtown, Ashford, Kent.
-|Image Name=
+|Image Name=Personal_image_1.jpg
-|Image Title=
+|Image Title=Sergeant Douglas HYMERS in Alafoss, Iceland, 1941-2 Winter.
 }}
 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, Paul Hymers, to whom we are very grateful.