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Object description
Ts transcription (47pp) of a memoir, written in the 1990s, recording his service as a junior officer with the 1st Battalion Border Regiment in Northern Ireland (1933 - 1935), the 2nd Borders in India (1935 - 1939), with the 1st Borders again in France, including the evacuation from Dunkirk, and England (September 1939 - May 1941), as assistant secretary of the Joint Intelligence Committee of the War Cabinet (November 1941 - February 1943), as second in command and later commanding officer of the 1st Battalion Border Regiment (1st Airlanding Brigade, 1st Airborne Division) including training for and service in the glider-borne landings in Sicily (July 1943) and then at Arnhem (September 1944) where he was captured; his experiences as a prisoner of war in the officers' camp at Hadamar (September 1944 - April 1945), as secretary of the Joint Intelligence Sub Committee and on the Chiefs of Staff Committee Secretariat (1945 - 1948), as second in command of the 1st Borders in Palestine and Somaliland (1948 - 1949), as a staff officer in Hong Kong (1949 - 1951) and at the War Office (1951 - 1955), as commanding officer of the 1st Borders in West Germany (1955 - 1958) and of the mixed race Singapore Military Forces (1958 - 1961), as Chief of Staff, Land Forces, Hong Kong (1963 - 1965) and as Vice President of the Regular Commissions Board in Wiltshire (1966 - 1968). The memoir, which gives an interesting picture of a junior Army officer's life in India between the wars and of his unfortunate experiences as an airborne soldier in the 1939 - 1945 War, is accompanied by various official records of his service and biographical notes, his commission (1933) and some personal correspondence with Brigadier (later Major General Sir John) Willoughby concerning Haddon's appointment to Hong Kong in 1963
Content description
Ts transcription (47pp) of a memoir, written in the 1990s, recording his service as a junior officer with the 1st Battalion Border Regiment in Northern Ireland (1933 - 1935), the 2nd Borders in India (1935 - 1939), with the 1st Borders again in France, including the evacuation from Dunkirk, and England (September 1939 - May 1941), as assistant secretary of the Joint Intelligence Committee of the War Cabinet (November 1941 - February 1943), as second in command and later commanding officer of the 1st Battalion Border Regiment (1st Airlanding Brigade, 1st Airborne Division) including training for and service in the glider-borne landings in Sicily (July 1943) and then at Arnhem (September 1944) where he was captured; his experiences as a prisoner of war in the officers' camp at Hadamar (September 1944 - April 1945), as secretary of the Joint Intelligence Sub Committee and on the Chiefs of Staff Committee Secretariat (1945 - 1948), as second in command of the 1st Borders in Palestine and Somaliland (1948 - 1949), as a staff officer in Hong Kong (1949 - 1951) and at the War Office (1951 - 1955), as commanding officer of the 1st Borders in West Germany (1955 - 1958) and of the mixed race Singapore Military Forces (1958 - 1961), as Chief of Staff, Land Forces, Hong Kong (1963 - 1965) and as Vice President of the Regular Commissions Board in Wiltshire (1966 - 1968). The memoir, which gives an interesting picture of a junior Army officer's life in India between the wars and of his unfortunate experiences as an airborne soldier in the 1939 - 1945 War, is accompanied by various official records of his service and biographical notes, his commission (1933) and some personal correspondence with Brigadier (later Major General Sir John) Willoughby concerning Haddon's appointment to Hong Kong in 1963
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1994-01