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Description: | Microfilm copy of a ts memoir (166pp) recording his early life in Wolverhampton, 1917 - 1935, and then his service in the Army, initially as a trooper in the 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's 3rd Dragoon Guards) in the United Kingdom and India, and then as a gunner in the 52nd Field Battery, 1st Field Regiment RA, also stationed in India until the outbreak of war at which point his memoir ends; together with a ts memoir (72pp) of his service as a signaller with his battery's OP unit in North Africa, November 1940 - May 1943, during which his battery (attached to the 5th Indian Brigade, 4th Indian Division) saw action in the Battle of Sidi Barrani (December 1940), the Battle of Keren (March 1941), the capture of Damascus (June 1941), the retreat to El Alamein (May - July 1942), the Battle of Alamein (October 1942) and the Battle of Mejiz-El-Bab in Tunisia (December 1942), and he describes these actions and talks about conditions in the desert and the problems of signalling under battle conditions.
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Catalogue date 1983-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bradshaw, C H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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