Description
Object description
927 ms letters, 1937 - 1949, written to his wife, Elizabeth, before and after their marriage, mostly while serving in the army 1940 - 1946, first as a gunner in various Light and Heavy AA Batteries RA in Great Britain (July 1940 - December 1942), at 133rd OCT Group (HAA) (December 1942 - June 1943) after which he was commissioned, then as an officer in the 668th and 582nd HAA Batteries RA, at 166th OCTM on the Isle of Man and attached to the 1/6th Battalion Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment, including a period at the Driving and Maintenance School at Keswick, Cumberland (July 1943 - June 1944), briefly serving in Normandy following D-Day (June 1944) until he was wounded and returned to Britain, training artillery personnel in Great Britain (December 1944 - March 1946) until his demobilisation, mostly uninformative but giving details of his concern over the importance of social class both in the army and civilian life, army life, enjoyment of literature, his officer training, his own morale and that of his men, his views on communism, the Conservative government and the 1945 General Election, social consequences of the war, particularly housing, and his difficulties in finding employment after demobilisation; together with some poems, a postcard from his brother, Edward, when a prisoner of war in Stalag XXA and two copies of a ts memoir (12pp) of his service in Normandy, 8 - 12 June 1944, briefing notes and maps of the Normandy area.
Content description
927 ms letters, 1937 - 1949, written to his wife, Elizabeth, before and after their marriage, mostly while serving in the army 1940 - 1946, first as a gunner in various Light and Heavy AA Batteries RA in Great Britain (July 1940 - December 1942), at 133rd OCT Group (HAA) (December 1942 - June 1943) after which he was commissioned, then as an officer in the 668th and 582nd HAA Batteries RA, at 166th OCTM on the Isle of Man and attached to the 1/6th Battalion Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment, including a period at the Driving and Maintenance School at Keswick, Cumberland (July 1943 - June 1944), briefly serving in Normandy following D-Day (June 1944) until he was wounded and returned to Britain, training artillery personnel in Great Britain (December 1944 - March 1946) until his demobilisation, mostly uninformative but giving details of his concern over the importance of social class both in the army and civilian life, army life, enjoyment of literature, his officer training, his own morale and that of his men, his views on communism, the Conservative government and the 1945 General Election, social consequences of the war, particularly housing, and his difficulties in finding employment after demobilisation; together with some poems, a postcard from his brother, Edward, when a prisoner of war in Stalag XXA and two copies of a ts memoir (12pp) of his service in Normandy, 8 - 12 June 1944, briefing notes and maps of the Normandy area.
History note
Cataloguer EJN
History note
Catalogue date 1992-01