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Description: | Photocopied ms account (82pp) of his life, beginning with his enlistment in the Middlesex Regiment in 1915, from which he was discharged as under age, and then his joining the Royal Marine Light Infantry in 1916, service in HMS LORD NELSON at Mudros in 1917, and in the Black Sea on the SS BARRYFIELD, after the end of the War serving in HMS ALECTO torpedo-sweeping, on SS CYCLOPS experimenting with mines, and in HMS REPULSE; in 1922 he was discharged, and joined the Army, serving with the 2nd Battalion Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in Waziristan, Calcutta, and Burma, returning to the United Kingdom in about 1932, and discharged in 1934. The narrative also includes details of his childhood in Ireland, and his civil life in the period 1934 - 1956 when he became batman at Old Sarum Officer's Mess, while containing detailed accounts of daily life and routine in the RMLI and British Army in India between the wars, including various punishments, brothels, piquet duty, the discomfort and routine of marches, and the dullness of life on the North West Frontier.
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Catalogue date 1980-01-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Daly, W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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