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Description: | Photocopy of his well written diary (124pp) for 1942 covering his training as a Forward Observer Bombardment (FOB) and Bombardment Liaison Officer (BLO) in what became the Combined Operations Bombardment Unit at the Combined Training Centre, Inverary including gunnery practice in the cruisers HMS NIGERIA and HMS LIVERPOOL, and his service as BLO in the destroyer HMS GARTH during the Dieppe raid (19 August 1942), describing his emotions at the postponement of the raid in July and giving a detailed account of the raid, his recollections of being wounded, the passage back to the United Kingdom and his treatment in hospital and subsequent recuperation; together with photocopies of a portrait photograph of him in uniform and of several photographs of the raid in progress, which had been pasted into the diary. The collection also includes ts copies (32pp) of extracts from a diary or letters (November 1917 - September 1918) written by his father, Captain F J Turner during his service in Palestine with the 12th Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers (229th Brigade, 74th Division).
Cataloguer AAM
Catalogue date 2001-01-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Turner, D H H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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