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Description: | Ms diary in two volumes (116pp) of his service commanding the 14th Light Armoured Motor Battery (armoured cars) in Mesopotamia, May 1917 - November 1918, in action against Turkish and Arab forces, and lecture notes on the administrative history of this campaign; together with an ms account (53pp) in diary form, and a wordprocessed edited transcript (16pp) of another, earlier version of the diary, recording his experiences while commanding 145th Infantry Brigade (48th Division, 1st Corps) in France, 15 - 30 May 1940, including the defence of Cassel, 24 - 29 May, where his Brigade was acting as rearguard to the evacuation of the BEF, until his capture by the Germans while trying to break out to Dunkirk.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1985-05 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Somerset, N F | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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