Description
Object description
Word processed transcription of 277 letters written by him to his mother and aunt (December 1939 - May 1946) covering his service with 3rd County of London Yeomanry at various locations in the UK (December 1939 - April 1942), his embarkation for India as a cadet for the Indian Army and training at the Officer Training School, Bangalore (July - November 1942), his commissioning as an officer with 2nd Battalion Ajmer Regiment (November 1942) and posting to camps in India and to the Arakan Front (December 1943 - January 1944), his service as part of SEAC (September 1944 - June 1945) in particular at Ramree Island, off Burma (January 1945), his return to India Command (June 1945) and transfer to the Essex Regiment (February 1946) prior to demobilisation (March 1946), with notes on training, his impressions of India, difficulties incurred through not having British citizenship, his support for the 'Red Army', his experiences in Burma (December 1943), and his impatience for demobilisation (August 1945 - February 1946); together with 211 letters to him from his mother and aunt (December 1939 - December 1946) from their residences in Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex (December 1939 - December 1942), Market Harborough, Leicestershire (December 1942 - May 1945) and Chelmsford, Essex (May 1945 - December 1946) concerning mostly family and domestic matters with general notes on their life and worries of living in wartime England.
Content description
Word processed transcription of 277 letters written by him to his mother and aunt (December 1939 - May 1946) covering his service with 3rd County of London Yeomanry at various locations in the UK (December 1939 - April 1942), his embarkation for India as a cadet for the Indian Army and training at the Officer Training School, Bangalore (July - November 1942), his commissioning as an officer with 2nd Battalion Ajmer Regiment (November 1942) and posting to camps in India and to the Arakan Front (December 1943 - January 1944), his service as part of SEAC (September 1944 - June 1945) in particular at Ramree Island, off Burma (January 1945), his return to India Command (June 1945) and transfer to the Essex Regiment (February 1946) prior to demobilisation (March 1946), with notes on training, his impressions of India, difficulties incurred through not having British citizenship, his support for the 'Red Army', his experiences in Burma (December 1943), and his impatience for demobilisation (August 1945 - February 1946); together with 211 letters to him from his mother and aunt (December 1939 - December 1946) from their residences in Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex (December 1939 - December 1942), Market Harborough, Leicestershire (December 1942 - May 1945) and Chelmsford, Essex (May 1945 - December 1946) concerning mostly family and domestic matters with general notes on their life and worries of living in wartime England.
History note
Cataloguer PJB
History note
Catalogue date 2007-11-02