Private Papers of Colonel C R W Norman OBE

1250 letters to his mother and wife, July 1934 - July 1959, including 11 ms letters from France, Italy and Austria, July 1934; 95 letters, December 1935 - August 1937, while serving with 2nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry in India, describing living conditions, recreations and riot control, and in Sudan, February - August 1937; 39 letters from his service with 2nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry guarding the International Settlement in Shanghai, December 1937 - September 1938, discussing relations with the Japanese forces and the political situation; 78 letters from Shanghai, Tientsin and Peking, January 1939 - March 1940; 196 letters from Egypt with the Battalion, April 1940 - March 1941, HQ MEF, March 1941 - June 1942, Staff College Palestine, June-September 1942, as DAQMG XXX Corps, October 1942 - April 1943, in hospital, May 1943, then GHQ MEF, May 1943 - February 1944, in which he mainly discusses living conditions and social events; 19 letters from HQ BAOR, September 1945 - January 1946; 29 letters as a tutor at the Staff College, Haifa, Palestine, March - September 1946; 92 letters as head of Military Intelligence in Palestine, October 1946 - July 1948, together with interesting series of lecture notes and reports on the situation in Palestine, June 1947 - March 1948; 24 letters January-June 1949 from Germany while serving with 1st Battalion Durham Light Infantry; 56 letters from Germany, Durham and Korea, April 1952 - September 1953 while 2nd in Command of 1st Battalion Durham Light Infantry; 165 letters while at HQ Land Forces, Hong Kong, May 1957 - July 1959; together with 84 letters to his wife from Germany, November 1948 - July 1949; amd 30 from Germany April - July 1952; 193 letters from Korea, August 1952 - September 1953 describing living conditions and talking about Australian and US troops; and 140 letters from his wife in England and Germany, December 1948 - March 1950.

Cataloguer NLY

Catalogue date 1987-05