Description
Object description
Four excellent word-processed accounts of his experiences in France during the Second World War, describing his landing on 'Juno' Beach as a lieutenant with the 8th Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment during the D-Day operations, Normandy (10pp, 6 June 1944), including vivid details of his approach to the beach in a landing craft tank, the opening of the bombardment, initial landings onto the beach, his own job of clearing mines, and the scene of carnage as the day ended; then service as a captain in the 1st Battalion Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (53rd Division) describing the aftermath and scenes of destruction left by the battle for the small village of Pierrefitte in the 'Falaise Pocket' (3pp, 19 August 1944); the assault made on the Reichswald Forest by the 1st Battalion (10pp, February 1945) with details of the preparations for and Battalion's role in the assault, and the counter-attack made by the Germans as the Allied troops reached German soil; and his Battalion's role in infantry fighting on the border of Holland and Belgium (12pp, November 1944), including his experience of being trapped in a ruined farmhouse by German machine-gun fire.
Content description
Four excellent word-processed accounts of his experiences in France during the Second World War, describing his landing on 'Juno' Beach as a lieutenant with the 8th Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment during the D-Day operations, Normandy (10pp, 6 June 1944), including vivid details of his approach to the beach in a landing craft tank, the opening of the bombardment, initial landings onto the beach, his own job of clearing mines, and the scene of carnage as the day ended; then service as a captain in the 1st Battalion Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (53rd Division) describing the aftermath and scenes of destruction left by the battle for the small village of Pierrefitte in the 'Falaise Pocket' (3pp, 19 August 1944); the assault made on the Reichswald Forest by the 1st Battalion (10pp, February 1945) with details of the preparations for and Battalion's role in the assault, and the counter-attack made by the Germans as the Allied troops reached German soil; and his Battalion's role in infantry fighting on the border of Holland and Belgium (12pp, November 1944), including his experience of being trapped in a ruined farmhouse by German machine-gun fire.
History note
Cataloguer PJG
History note
Catalogue date 1995-07-06