Description
Object description
Notebook containing excellent ms diary (46pp, January - May 1940) describing his service as an orderly with Section 3, No 2 Friends Ambulance Unit, his voyage to Norway, his arrival in Finland (24 February), service in the south east of the country around Joensuu, the reactions of the local people against the Russo-German accord (13 March), the retreat into Norway (30 April), being attacked by aircraft there and on the boat evacuating the unit from Namsos to Scotland (2 May) and the voyage from the Orkneys to Gurrock (Gourock, Renfrewshire), frequently giving his reflections on his actions and the events in which he played a part; notebook containing deliberately descriptive ms narratives (12pp written ca 1940) of his experiences in 1940, skiing in Norway (February), during a journey from Kupio to Joensuu (April), during the evacuation from Namsos (May) and cycling near Dartford in Kent as a plane crashes (August); notebook containing his ms guidelines (18pp) for the establishment, organisation and operation of a Displaced Persons camp in Germany (April 1945); an album of photographs and text about Oberhausen in the Rhineland, given as a memento of his work with children there in 1945 - 1946.
Content description
Notebook containing excellent ms diary (46pp, January - May 1940) describing his service as an orderly with Section 3, No 2 Friends Ambulance Unit, his voyage to Norway, his arrival in Finland (24 February), service in the south east of the country around Joensuu, the reactions of the local people against the Russo-German accord (13 March), the retreat into Norway (30 April), being attacked by aircraft there and on the boat evacuating the unit from Namsos to Scotland (2 May) and the voyage from the Orkneys to Gurrock (Gourock, Renfrewshire), frequently giving his reflections on his actions and the events in which he played a part; notebook containing deliberately descriptive ms narratives (12pp written ca 1940) of his experiences in 1940, skiing in Norway (February), during a journey from Kupio to Joensuu (April), during the evacuation from Namsos (May) and cycling near Dartford in Kent as a plane crashes (August); notebook containing his ms guidelines (18pp) for the establishment, organisation and operation of a Displaced Persons camp in Germany (April 1945); an album of photographs and text about Oberhausen in the Rhineland, given as a memento of his work with children there in 1945 - 1946.
History note
Cataloguer PHR
History note
Catalogue date 1993-03