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537 Ordnance Heavy Maintenance Field Artillery Company stayed at Holmes Chapel Cheshire on 19 march 1944

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The 537 Ordnance Heavy Maintenance Field Artillery Company is one of the units on the UK Station List made by Mr. Grinton. This and other records on Back to Normandy was compiled from Headquarters, European Theater of Operations, Kingdom Station List, and dated 7 September 1944.
(-) minus sign behind a unit name indicates that part of the unit was elsewhere.
Counties are mentioned as the so called pre-1974 British counties. The map co-ordinates are automatically made with Google Maps. If you have a more accurate location, photos, stories or links, please sent your information to Back to Normandy. The unit is also know as member of the US Army, Army Air Force. In this period, around this date of 19 maart 1944 the 537 Ordnance Heavy Maintenance Field Artillery Company were here in Holmes Chapel, Cheshire.

The original station list was obtained from the National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) at College Park, Maryland. The NARA describe it as HQ/ETO Station List, 4/30/44 and reference Box 15, 270/48/32/2. In the European and Mediterranean theater the US Army had 3.5 million troops there. About 1.7 million were combat troops and around 700.000 were service troops along with 592.000 army air force troops and the rest were replacements, patients, overhead and staff. The correct count of support- and line troops in this context is difficult.

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Sandra Davis
Sandra Davis
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My father, William Slater Gavin passed away in 2005. My mother passed away in April of this year. My sister and I have been cleaning out the estate andd I came across a booklet which reads;
537 Ordnance Heavy Maintenance Company Field Army in...

My father, William Slater Gavin passed away in 2005. My mother passed away in April of this year. My sister and I have been cleaning out the estate andd I came across a booklet which reads;
537 Ordnance Heavy Maintenance Company Field Army in the E.T. O.
There was also a handmade booklet that I believed was made to give to everyone in the company as it contains the names and addresses of many men who served in alphabetical order.

Daddy never discussed the war. I have no idea where he went..if he fought..nothing. I was just curious about this company. If you could shed some light...I would appreciate it.
Sandra Gavin Davis

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