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Description: | Photocopied ts memoir (71pp), written in the 1970s, giving a partial yet in places repetitive record of his military career, 1915 - 1952, of particular interest being the sections covering his entry into and training at the Royal Military College Sandhurst (August 1915 - April 1916), his service on the Western Front as an artillery observation officer in kite balloons and with an unidentified RFC Squadron (late 1916 - December 1917), his appointment as a qualified Chinese interpreter as an intelligence officer in the Shanghai Defence Force (1927) and with North China Command (1927 - 1932), his temporary appointment as an AQMG in East Africa (January - March 1940), his service as General Alexander's Chief Chinese Liaison Officer during the Japanese invasion of Burma (early 1942) and his appointment on the personal staff of the French General de Lattre de Tassigny in Indo-China during the campaign against the Vietminh (1951 - 1952). The memoir also includes his first-hand impressions of Major General Orde Wingate and the American General Stilwell.
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Catalogue date 1980-02-29 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Field, L F | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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