The villages of Staple Fitzpaine, Bickenhall, Curland,
Orchard Portman, Thurlbear and Stoke St. Mary, Somerset, England.

THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION
60th ANNIVERSARY of D DAY
6th June 1944 - 6th June 2004

A tribute to Richard Goodland Hyde - Sherwood Rangers Tank Regiment

Richard Goodland Hyde M.C.,T.D.
1923 -1999

Taunton School to Goodlands aged 16 in 1939 when Harold Goodland chairman was his uncle. Two years later when he was old enough to be called up he joined the Sherwood Rangers Tank Regiment in 1941 training at Bovington and after to Sandhurst. He was awarded the Military Cross 1943 in Belgium and also the American Bronze Star. He served in Austria and Germany 1945-1947.
After his return to Goodlands in 1947 Richard joined the T.A. - Royal Gloucester Hussars (the regiment having the same initials - RGH - as Richard). He retired as Squadron Leader of the Bristol Squadron RGH in 1958 as Major R.G.Hyde.

Photograph left c. 1945
Lieut. Richard Goodland Hyde
- Sherwood Rangers.

Description
The completion of Richard's training - 32 Troop 58 T.R.A. Bovington June 1942

Mary Hyde left Dartford P.E. College in 1939 and taught P.E. throughout WW2 at Exeter during the blitz and from 1942-1945 in Sittingbourne, Kent. She left for South Africa at the end of the war.

On Mary's return from South Africa in 1952 she met Richard who was then a Director with Goodlands and serving in the TA with the Royal Gloucester Hussars.

Photo left shows Richard in his year of office in the Chair 1980 with Sincerity and Unanimity Lodge No. 261 Taunton.

Photographs by permission of Mrs Mary Hyde, Stoke St. Mary. - February 2004.