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Description: | Microfilm copy of ts memoir (364pp), FOUR SCORE YEARS AND MORE, describing his early life in Saffron Walden, his officer training at RMA Woolwich, 1916, and service with 168 Siege Battery, RGA in the Ypres Salient, September 1916 until wounded, then in Italy, September 1917 - November 1918, followed by service with the British Military Mission to South Russia, November 1919 - June 1920, after which he joined the Royal Corps of Signals and served in the Signal Training Centre, 1922 - 1933, which was followed by a posting to India initially as a Company Commander to an Indian Signals Unit and later as DAA and QMG at Quetta, 1935 - 1940, then he was posted to France as GSO1 (Signals) at GHQ, March 1940 - May 1940, and after evacuation from Dunkirk he served at GHQ Home Forces, June - December 1940, as AA and QMG 2nd Division, January 1941 - April 1942, then in India as DAG at GHQ, 1942 - 1944, after which he was given command of 105 Lines of Communication Area, 1944 - 1946, and in January 1947 - September 1947 was involved in the 'Indianisation' of the Indian Armed Forces, and was finally appointed GOC Malaya, September 1947 - July 1948, and his last official post was as chairman of a board to review War Crimes Sentences in Europe.
Cataloguer PJT
Catalogue date 1982-03 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Garrison Artillery British Army 168th Siege Battery British Military Mission to South Russia | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Wade, Douglas Ashton Lofft | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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