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Description: | Circa 400 ms letters, 2 diaries, official papers, photographs, postcards and other ephemera covering his military career, 1909 – 1947, initially as a private soldier and NCO with the Royal Dragoons (1st and 2nd Battalion)in South Africa (1913 – 1914), on the Western Front (October 1914 – May 1915), in India (1924 – 1927), then with the Royal Indian Army Service Corps (1927 – 1947)on the North West Frontier (1930s), with 25 Animal Transport Company in France (November 1939 – June 1940) and Britain (June 1940 – September 1941)before being commissioned as a Lieutenant and posted to: India where he was an animal transport instructor (1942 – 1943); then (as a Major) to the Mountain (Snow) Warfare School at Sepino, Italy (1944 – March 1945) where he also worked as an instructor; to A Pack Group RIASC (1945); and finally to India again where he served with 86 Company, 81 Company and 12 Company RIASC before retiring from the Army in 1947 and accepting a commission in the TA training cadets, with useful insights into the thoughts and feelings of a career soldier about life in the Army, civilian conditions in South Africa and India, conditions on the Western Front in the Ypres Sector (1914 – May 1915) including during the Second Battle of Ypres in which he was wounded, conditions for Army wives, descriptions of his escape from France (June 1940) and duties at the Mountain Warfare School in Italy.
Cataloguer AC | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | English, J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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