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Description: | Photocopied ts transcription (114pp) of a diary written during his service as a clerk with the 5th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment (11th Infantry Brigade, 4th Division) in the United Kingdom describing his mobilisation with the Territorial Army, September 1939 - January 1940, and in France where he refers to rugby matches with French soldiers, January - April 1940; then on the Brigade Staff in France, April - May 1940, in the United Kingdom where he talks of the Local Defence Volunteers, the role of the army in the UK following Dunkirk, internal relations at brigade level, the exercises he took part in, recreational entertainment and morale, June - October 1942, and in Tunisia, December 1942; then back to the 5th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment in Tunisia describing the court martial of the chief clerk and army life in North Africa at brigade and battalion level, January - April 1943. Much of the content of the letters is personal but they include comments on being put forward for a commission, food, the mail service and washing; together with a postscript written by his sister, describing her visit to Hall's grave in Tunisia in March 1981.
Cataloguer KB
Catalogue date 2002-01-18 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hall, J W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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