The Men of the Yeomanry in the Courier

With considerable help from Philip Wilson, the Trustee and Archivist at the Warwickshire Yeomanry Museum in the Court House, we have pieced together the stories of the three Warwick men who died in WW2 serving with the famous Yeomanry Regiment.

On 5th June, the Warwick Courier devoted a full page to their stories. Major Ernest Heather was invalided out of the Middle East where he had been serving while the Yeomanry were still mounted cavalry. He never recovered from illnesses contracted on active service and died shortly after the war had ended.

Arthur ‘Mac’ Midwinter was killed in Italy when the Yeomanry had stopped using horses and had converted to Sherman tanks. His Yeomanry unit was ambushed by German forces at the Battle of the Cemetery near Orvieto in Italy.

Cyril Hall was killed at El Alamein in a particularly fierce tank battle in which no fewer than 37 British tanks were lost.

You can read more about the exploits of the Warwickshire Yeomanry in both world wars on this website under ‘The Local Regiments’ in both WW1 and WW2 sections

We hope that the publicity in the newspaper will encourage more families to look out their photograph albums and send us information about the Warwick men who died in WW2 and are named on the war memorial in Church Street.  Email: info@warwickwarmemorial.org.uk