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Description: | An extensive collection of papers covering his military career, 1915 - 1964, including his official service records, various ms and ts memoirs, correspondence between himself and his family, his engagement diaries, official papers, correspondence, printed items and presscuttings relating to his command of 7th Armoured Division in the Middle East and North West Europe, 1943 - 1944; his appointment as Head of the SHAEF Mission to Belgium, 1944 - 1945; as GOC British Troops in Egypt, 1949 - 1952; as C-in-C East Africa, 1953 - 1955; and as Colonel Commandant to the 2nd Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps, 1956 - 1957, and to the 2nd Green Jackets, Kings Royal Rifle Corps, 1959 - 1964.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1975-04 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | King's Royal Rifle Corps British Army 7th Armoured Division 2nd Green Jackets 2nd Battalion | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Erskine, George Watkin Eben James | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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