Thank you for your reply. Indeed, I wish I had started looking into this earlier and may have had more chance of word of mouth information. I was able to look at the regiment War Diaries this week and discovered that he was with HQ squadron when the regiment was disbanded in 1945. I am not entirely sure how that worked with the other three squadrons as the first hand reports sometimes mention an HQ tank being with them or HQ tanks arriving to help them get moved when they were bogged. At least it keeps my research going and is proving to be very interesting. I meant to mention in my initial post that he was known as Wattie in civvies life, but no idea what nickname he would have had while serving.
Unfortunately I am in the north of Scotland and will be unable to make it to Canterbury for Remembrance Sunday, but I will be thinking of all the lads I have been reading about over the last few months.
