My wife's grandfather is Reginald Ewington from South Wales. He was the gunner in tank 58 and has his head poking out of the vehicle in the picture.
We know he joined the regiment on his 21st birthday April 1943 and fought his way through to the end of the war where he was in Bremen on VE day. He was then demobbed in November 1945 joining the Glamorgan County Constabulary.
He landed on Sword beach in his Sherman DD tank on DDay as a trooper and was sometime later promoted to Corporal and crew commander of his tank during the push through Europe. He was subsequently awarded the Belgian Croix De Guerre with Palm for bravery while clearing the town of Bourg Leopold in September 1944.
I hope this information is of interest and helpful to the discussion.
