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Description: | Word-processed memoir (52pp, written in the third person for his family in 2010) relating to his National Service in the Royal Engineers, and covering his reporting to No 4 Training Regiment Royal Engineers (TRRE), Aldershot (October 1951), details of his daily routines, moving to No 3 TRRE, Cove (October 1951), attending a War Office Selection Board at Barton Stacey, Hampshire (January 1952), details of tests, passing and graduating as a field engineer, his transfer to the Officer Cadet School (March 1952), training, details of Regimental Sergeant Major Brittain, his posting to Officer Cadet Squadron, No 11 School of Military Engineering, Strood, Kent (May 1952), passing out as 2nd Lieutenant (July 1952), further training, flying to Egypt, with details of the flight, joining 37 Field Squadron RE, attached to 32nd Guards Brigade at El Ballah, in the Suez region, various duties including Mechanical Transport Officer, his expertise in explosives, work as the RE liaison officer at Brigade HQ during desert manoeuvres, anecdotes about exercises, being on a detachment to RAF Habbaniya as part of the British Military Mission in Iraq to help organise a military tattoo in front of King Faisal II (June 1953), leaving Egypt and posting to the Army Emergency Reserve of Officers (September 1953), with 3 Movement Control Group RE as a Lieutenant (1955), 8 MCG RE as acting Captain (1958) and 73 MC Regiment RE as Captain (1960). The memoir is illustrated throughout with photographs of Croghan, his fellow soldiers, training exercises, vehicles, bridging, patrols, the Suez Canal and rural scenes, and copies of maps, and contains other background information to the political and military situation at the time of his service. Together with a similar booklet (32pp) which he prepared about his father, Norman Croghan, and his service in 10th Battalion Norfolk Regiment in the Mesopotamian Campaign in the First World War, which contains background to the campaign with transcriptions of some brief notes by Croghan and scans of some documents.
Cataloguer SJO | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 10th Battalion No 4 Training Battalion 37 Field Squadron Officer Cadet Squadron Royal Engineers British Army Norfolk Regiment No 11 School of Military Engineering | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Croghan, David | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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