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Description: | 188 letters, 15 diaries, lecture notes and papers, and press cuttings covering his career as a regular officer in the Royal Engineers (1917 - 1943) and later the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (1943 - 1954), in particular his postings to the British Army of Occupation, Germany (December 1918 - September 1919), to India and the North West Frontier (March 1920 - July 1923), to Nigeria with the Colonial Survey Section (October 1926 - November 1928), to Malaya Command (February 1937 - December 1940), and to 21st Army Group during the D-Day landings and advance into Germany (January 1944 - February 1946), including details of his early career and experiences as a junior officer in India and Nigeria (1917 - 1928), his success in his studies at Cambridge University (1924 - 1925), the organisation of works services in Malaya and the defences of Singapore (1935 - 1939), his duties as CREME 30th Corps Troops during the Allied advance in North West Europe(1944 - 1945) and the conditions for his troops and workshops while on the move, and notes on his later civilian career as Chief Inspector Nuclear Installations (1959 - 1964), together with documents relating to his training as a civilian pilot (1935 - 1937) and souvenir booklets of the Second Army Thanksgiving Service (May 1945) and the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II(June 1953).
Cataloguer PJB
Catalogue date 2001-12 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Joslin, S W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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