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Anecdotal ts memoir (177pp), "Bury Me in a Shallow Grave - Dig me up Late" written in 1987, of a private in The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, June 1940 - May 1944, and the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC), May 1944 - 1948, including: training at Cameron Barracks, Inverness, June 1940 - March 1941; embarkation overseas on the LOUIS PASTEUR to Egypt, March 1941; the Infantry Base Depot at Geneifa; active service with 2nd Battalion QOCH, North Africa, ?April 1941 - June 1942, at Halfaya Pass, April 1941, Benghazi, February 1942, Tobruk, December 1941, 9th General Hospital, Heliopolis, ?February 1942, Kabrit, Egypt, ?March - June 1942; taken POW, Tobruk, June 1942; the journey to Italy, June - August 1942; POW at Lucca, August - November 1942, Camp PG70, Porto San Giorgio, November 1942 - May 1943, and on a farm at Massarlingo, near Milan, May - September 1943; escaping, October - December 1943; internment in Switzerland, December 1943 - September 1944; return to Britain, ?September 1944; 95th Company RASC, AA Command, ?September 1944 - May 1945; hospitalisation with diabetes at Shaftesbury, Catterick, Aysgarth, York, and Scarborough, May 1945 - 1948; describing Army life; the brothel at Bukta; poor conditions as an POW; the failure of Army doctors to diagnose his illness; and mentioning Benito Mussolini.
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Catalogue date 1991-02-26
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