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Description: | 178 ms letters (343pp) and 10 postcards (October 1939 - October 1946) written by him to his mother covering his education at Malvern College and Cambridge University, and training and service as an officer with 80th Field Regiment (52nd Division) and 33rd Field Regiment, in the UK (December 1941 - October 1944), with 1st Allied Airborne Army in Holland and Germany (October 1944 - October 1945) and in Palestine (October 1945 - October 1946) with few details of his training and duties but good notes on the move of Malvern College to Blenheim Palace following its requisition by the Admiralty, air raids and his impressions of his service overseas. Also with the collection are 5 files of training notes and papers (1935 - 1944); 2 volumes of a wp memoir (389pp), 1922 - 1946, providing greater details of his military service, notably the intended role of 80th Field Regiment in Operation 'Market Garden' (September 1944) and in subsequent operations into Germany (October 1944 - February 1945); a wp account (372pp) of his parents' wartime experiences (1914 - 1918) including transcriptions of their letters containing mostly personal details; and papers (5pp) relating to the death of his cousin, 2nd Lieutenant L O M Barstow during the evacuation of the British Legation from Athens (April 1941).
Cataloguer PJB
Catalogue date 2007-07-12 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Roy, J H B | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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