Description
Object description
Photocopy of an account (49pp ms) of his National Service with 525 Ordnance Depot Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) at Asmara, Eritrea, during 1948 - 1949, describing his arrival in Egypt and first impressions of local life at Suez (Base Transit Depot), encounters with German ex-POWs still being held there and with the native Arabs, life and work at the Asmara depot in the company of Italians and Eritreans, with particular reference to the seedy night-life on offer and other recreational facilities, and conveying quite effectively the general atmosphere of boredom and poverty which characterised the place; together with a few newspaper cuttings relating to sporting fixtures at Asmara; also a photocopy of a letter (4pp ms) dated August 1915 and written from Gallipoli by his father, J H Beverland, a doctor with 32nd Field Ambulance RAMC (11th Division), headed "Amongst the Cave-Dwellers" and giving a very good picture of conditions at Suvla Bay.
Content description
Photocopy of an account (49pp ms) of his National Service with 525 Ordnance Depot Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) at Asmara, Eritrea, during 1948 - 1949, describing his arrival in Egypt and first impressions of local life at Suez (Base Transit Depot), encounters with German ex-POWs still being held there and with the native Arabs, life and work at the Asmara depot in the company of Italians and Eritreans, with particular reference to the seedy night-life on offer and other recreational facilities, and conveying quite effectively the general atmosphere of boredom and poverty which characterised the place; together with a few newspaper cuttings relating to sporting fixtures at Asmara; also a photocopy of a letter (4pp ms) dated August 1915 and written from Gallipoli by his father, J H Beverland, a doctor with 32nd Field Ambulance RAMC (11th Division), headed "Amongst the Cave-Dwellers" and giving a very good picture of conditions at Suvla Bay.
History note
Cataloguer SWW
History note
Catalogue date 1995-06