WW2 - 564 Battery (M) - HAA - RA

B Troop 564 Battery

564 Battery was form in May 1942 and was regimented with 183 regiment in October 1942. There were four troops A,B,C.D. Also in the Regiment were 608 Battery and 591 Battery.

Major Haines Battery Commander. 
Captain Gammel OC B Troop 

Other Officers 
Miss Harvey, Miss Liscombe 

Some names of members of the battery; 
Corporal Louise Bragg - Height/Range finder (Married name Louise Goodlad)
L/Sgt. Whiticker - Radar ( Married name Dorothy Cowley)
Pte. Benson - Telephonist 
Pte. Standford - Cook  Sylvia Sandford married an Eton Wick man, George Newall in 1944.
Pte. Tubman - Cook (Married name Betty Dudley)
Cpl. Goddard 
Cpl. Kennedy 

C Section 
Pte Warton 
Pte. McIntyre 
Pte. Chick 
Cpl. Brandon 
Pte Kelly 
Pte. Keightly 

D Section 
Pte. Fisk 
Pte. Driver 
Pte. Nettleton 
Pte. Foster 
Sgt. Hackney  RADAR 

Mrs Winifred Stone

Left to right rear
Sgt. Bevan, Sgt. Jackson, Sgt. Till, Sgt. Dawes and Sgt. Jacobs
Front
Sgt. Kerr, L/Sgt. Whittaker and Sgt. Hackney

The various troops and sections were scattered over the area from 1942 - 44 also they seem to have travelled to Wales, Cornwall and Yorkshire for firing practice and rest. 

Dorney Common 1944

Left the Windsor / Slough area Easter Sunday 1944 and went to the Isle of Sheppy - Canterbury area. Proceeded overseas to Europe 1945 to Belgium ending at Hoboken near the Dutch border. 

Sandbag filling at Hoboken, Belgium in 1945.

564 Bty. Names sent by Mrs Sylvia Crook: 

Mrs Joyce Boughton nee Valentine - (HQ Stores - Iver)
Mrs Vera Hagan nee Featherby did not serve at the Dorney Common site.
Miss Iris Clover, 
Mrs Anne Barber nee Thomas did not serve at the Dorney Common site.
Miss O Faulkner

Janet Black - Was stationed at Slough and Datchet, not at Dorney