Description
Object description
Photocopy of ts account (85pp, written ca 1989) describing: volunteering for service as a private with the 1st Battalion, The Black Watch (the Highland Regiment) in 1941, training in Scotland and manning Anti-Aircraft defences there, his transfer to 61st Training Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps and training as a gunner/operator in County Durham 1942 - 1943, transfer to and service with 1st Lothian and Border Yeomanry RAC (79th Armoured Division) from 1943 to 1948 including service in France, principally at Caen and Falaise as a member of a tank team involved in mine-clearing operations, in Belgium, Holland and Germany (July 1944 - May 1945), with the occupation forces in Germany (Blankenburg, Hankensbuettel and Freckenhorst) as a member of his regiment's Police contingent and band, giving interesting details of civilian conditions and attitudes to the occupying forces, fraternisation, his own secret marriage to a German civilian, and finally his transfer to the Scots Greys at Lueneburg in 1948 prior to his discharge. The account contains many amusing cameos of army life and good details of mine clearing operations in Normandy.
Content description
Photocopy of ts account (85pp, written ca 1989) describing: volunteering for service as a private with the 1st Battalion, The Black Watch (the Highland Regiment) in 1941, training in Scotland and manning Anti-Aircraft defences there, his transfer to 61st Training Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps and training as a gunner/operator in County Durham 1942 - 1943, transfer to and service with 1st Lothian and Border Yeomanry RAC (79th Armoured Division) from 1943 to 1948 including service in France, principally at Caen and Falaise as a member of a tank team involved in mine-clearing operations, in Belgium, Holland and Germany (July 1944 - May 1945), with the occupation forces in Germany (Blankenburg, Hankensbuettel and Freckenhorst) as a member of his regiment's Police contingent and band, giving interesting details of civilian conditions and attitudes to the occupying forces, fraternisation, his own secret marriage to a German civilian, and finally his transfer to the Scots Greys at Lueneburg in 1948 prior to his discharge. The account contains many amusing cameos of army life and good details of mine clearing operations in Normandy.
History note
Cataloguer PHR
History note
Catalogue date 1990-02
