Description
Object description
Album containing operation orders, army message forms, one ms letter, aerial photographs and linen and paper maps concerning his command of a column drawn from the 1st Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment and the 4/16th Battalion Punjab Regiment (7th Indian Brigade, 4th Indian Division) during operations leading to the capture of the port of Mersa Tachai at the outset of the Eritrean campaign in February 1941, together with army messages relating to further operations in Eritrea (13 - 23 March 1941) and an amusing unofficial Italian aerial propaganda leaflet; also a collection of voyage reports, on general and disciplinary matters, and other official documents relating to his appointments as OC Troops and later Ship's Commandant in the troopships EMPIRE PRIDE, EMPIRE MEDWAY, EMPIRE ORWELL and ATLANTIC on trooping duties between the United Kingdom, the Middle East and the Far East (the latter at the time of the Korean War), August 1949 - January 1952.
Content description
Album containing operation orders, army message forms, one ms letter, aerial photographs and linen and paper maps concerning his command of a column drawn from the 1st Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment and the 4/16th Battalion Punjab Regiment (7th Indian Brigade, 4th Indian Division) during operations leading to the capture of the port of Mersa Tachai at the outset of the Eritrean campaign in February 1941, together with army messages relating to further operations in Eritrea (13 - 23 March 1941) and an amusing unofficial Italian aerial propaganda leaflet; also a collection of voyage reports, on general and disciplinary matters, and other official documents relating to his appointments as OC Troops and later Ship's Commandant in the troopships EMPIRE PRIDE, EMPIRE MEDWAY, EMPIRE ORWELL and ATLANTIC on trooping duties between the United Kingdom, the Middle East and the Far East (the latter at the time of the Korean War), August 1949 - January 1952.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1992-12