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Description: | Photocopy of ms account (69pp) covering his training with 72nd Coastal Training Regiment, Isle of Wight (October - December 1941), and service with 304 Coastal Battery, Scotland (January 1942 - 1943), 68th Medium Training Regiment RA, Chester (1943), and 70th Medium Regiment in Perthshire (1943), Sicily, Italy (1943 - 1945) and Austria (1945 - 1946) with brief details of the landing at Syracuse and conditions of service in Sicily, poor weather and food, duties on signals, action at the River Sangro and at Ortona, the hospitality shown by the Italians and Austrians, and the trouble caused by Tito's partisans; together with copies of photographs relating to his service, a word processed precis of his service (13pp), a copy of a history of 70th Medium Regiment RA (1940 - 1946), and copies of papers outlining his father's naval service (1914 - 1928).
Cataloguer PJB
Catalogue date 2007-11-16 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Lewis, H A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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