Description
Object description
Photocopy of ts memoir (227pp) of his service with 7th Battalion The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consorts Own) (1st Battalion London Rifle Brigade) from enlistment in 1938 as a TA soldier until demobilisation in 1946, in which he describes his training in peace time and mobilisation in September 1939 followed by coastal defence duties in Dover-Folkestone Area and in Scarborough October 1939 - March 1941, then as the Motor Battalion of 23rd Armoured Brigade in North Africa taking part in the Battle of El Alamein, and the Battle of Wadi Akarit after which he was commissioned and in April 1944 was sent with his battalion, now part of 9th Armoured Brigade, 6th Armoured Division, to Italy taking part in the attack on the Gothic line and advance into Austria, and then after leave in England reforming his battalion in Egypt where he acted at DAA QMG until returning to England and demobilisation
Content description
Photocopy of ts memoir (227pp) of his service with 7th Battalion The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consorts Own) (1st Battalion London Rifle Brigade) from enlistment in 1938 as a TA soldier until demobilisation in 1946, in which he describes his training in peace time and mobilisation in September 1939 followed by coastal defence duties in Dover-Folkestone Area and in Scarborough October 1939 - March 1941, then as the Motor Battalion of 23rd Armoured Brigade in North Africa taking part in the Battle of El Alamein, and the Battle of Wadi Akarit after which he was commissioned and in April 1944 was sent with his battalion, now part of 9th Armoured Brigade, 6th Armoured Division, to Italy taking part in the attack on the Gothic line and advance into Austria, and then after leave in England reforming his battalion in Egypt where he acted at DAA QMG until returning to England and demobilisation
History note
Cataloguer PJT
History note
Catalogue date 1987-05