Description
Object description
Photocopy of a ts narrative (3pp) of his service as a Lieutenant in HMS NIGERIA (July - October 1942), seeing action during Operation Pedestal, in the USA (October - December 1942), in HMMTB 685 (1943) and HMMTB 702 October 1943 - June 1945, during which time he took part in Operation Overlord; four Navigating Officer's notebooks, covering July 1943 - June 1945, for HMMTB 685 and HMMTB 702; copies of Operation Neptune naval operation, communication, intelligence and area defence orders for the Western and Eastern Naval Task Forces; together with orders for Portsmouth naval area operations, coastal force craft operations, maps of the beach and assault areas and coastal defences and tide tables for the Overlord landing area, eight coastal silhouette photograph booklets of northern France, six wartime railway tickets and nine Admiralty travel warrants for the UK and miscellaneous items and photographs relating to Operation Neptune and his personal career.
Content description
Photocopy of a ts narrative (3pp) of his service as a Lieutenant in HMS NIGERIA (July - October 1942), seeing action during Operation Pedestal, in the USA (October - December 1942), in HMMTB 685 (1943) and HMMTB 702 October 1943 - June 1945, during which time he took part in Operation Overlord; four Navigating Officer's notebooks, covering July 1943 - June 1945, for HMMTB 685 and HMMTB 702; copies of Operation Neptune naval operation, communication, intelligence and area defence orders for the Western and Eastern Naval Task Forces; together with orders for Portsmouth naval area operations, coastal force craft operations, maps of the beach and assault areas and coastal defences and tide tables for the Overlord landing area, eight coastal silhouette photograph booklets of northern France, six wartime railway tickets and nine Admiralty travel warrants for the UK and miscellaneous items and photographs relating to Operation Neptune and his personal career.
History note
Cataloguer NLY
History note
Catalogue date 1986-04