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Object description
An essentially anecdotal ts memoir (142pp) with some photographs, written in 1975, covering his childhood with an emigre Polish family in England (1893 - 1914), his training as a subaltern in the 3/5th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment in the UK (1914 - 1915), his service in the Army Ordnance Department at Gallipoli (September - December 1915) and then in Salonika (January 1916 - February 1919) including running a concert party and from 1917 as DADOS, 22nd Division; his appointment as ADOS to the British Military Mission to South Russia (February - October 1919) during which he rescued the Grand Duchess Olga and her husband from behind the Bolshevik lines; his service on the first Army Ordnance Officers' course (1921 - 1922), at London District (1922 - 1928), as Inspector of Stores at the War Office (1928 - 1932), as DADOS and later ADOS in Malta (1933 - 1939), at the War Office (1939), as ADOS at the BEF GHQ in France (September - November 1939); as Commandant of the important RAOC depot at Donnington (June 1940 - end 1944) with particular reference to its provision, storage and supply of stores for the British and Allied armies, to royal visits, the employment of the ATS and relations with the nearby American forces; and finally as DDOS, Lines of Communication in Italy (1945). The memoir includes many humorous stories from both world wars.
Content description
An essentially anecdotal ts memoir (142pp) with some photographs, written in 1975, covering his childhood with an emigre Polish family in England (1893 - 1914), his training as a subaltern in the 3/5th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment in the UK (1914 - 1915), his service in the Army Ordnance Department at Gallipoli (September - December 1915) and then in Salonika (January 1916 - February 1919) including running a concert party and from 1917 as DADOS, 22nd Division; his appointment as ADOS to the British Military Mission to South Russia (February - October 1919) during which he rescued the Grand Duchess Olga and her husband from behind the Bolshevik lines; his service on the first Army Ordnance Officers' course (1921 - 1922), at London District (1922 - 1928), as Inspector of Stores at the War Office (1928 - 1932), as DADOS and later ADOS in Malta (1933 - 1939), at the War Office (1939), as ADOS at the BEF GHQ in France (September - November 1939); as Commandant of the important RAOC depot at Donnington (June 1940 - end 1944) with particular reference to its provision, storage and supply of stores for the British and Allied armies, to royal visits, the employment of the ATS and relations with the nearby American forces; and finally as DDOS, Lines of Communication in Italy (1945). The memoir includes many humorous stories from both world wars.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1987-06