Description
Object description
Ms journal (114pp) written by a sensitive, religious, young man covering principally his experiences under training and as an NCO instructor in the Devonshire Regiment based near Exeter from October 1939 until the start of his course at 167th OCTU in Droitwich in January 1941 (with a 1 page retrospective entry dated January 1942) including useful details of his uniform issue, initial training, aspects of army life, his attendance on a small arms course at Hythe, his duties as an instructor and problems securing a commission as well as extensive comments on his personal philosophy and interest in Methodism; also a Christmas card and press-cutting, 4 poems, and 3 ms letters (28pp and partial ts translation 10pp) to his mother dated July 1944 and written during his service as a Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment (8th Brigade, 3rd Division) in France containing an excellent account of his activities in charge of a signals unit prior to, during and after his landing on D-Day including descriptions of what it was like to be under fire, casualties among his comrades and his battalion's progress in the Normandy campaign.
Content description
Ms journal (114pp) written by a sensitive, religious, young man covering principally his experiences under training and as an NCO instructor in the Devonshire Regiment based near Exeter from October 1939 until the start of his course at 167th OCTU in Droitwich in January 1941 (with a 1 page retrospective entry dated January 1942) including useful details of his uniform issue, initial training, aspects of army life, his attendance on a small arms course at Hythe, his duties as an instructor and problems securing a commission as well as extensive comments on his personal philosophy and interest in Methodism; also a Christmas card and press-cutting, 4 poems, and 3 ms letters (28pp and partial ts translation 10pp) to his mother dated July 1944 and written during his service as a Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment (8th Brigade, 3rd Division) in France containing an excellent account of his activities in charge of a signals unit prior to, during and after his landing on D-Day including descriptions of what it was like to be under fire, casualties among his comrades and his battalion's progress in the Normandy campaign.
History note
Cataloguer AC
History note
Catalogue date 1987-05