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Ts memoir (225pp photocopies; 1982) of his life and military career including: education (Clifton College and Sandhurst, 1914 - 1921), service as an officer with the 3rd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade in Ireland (1921), Turkey (1921 - 1923), with the 1st Battalion in India (1925 - 1927), attached to the 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles in East Africa (1927 - 1932), as ADC to the GOC-in-C Southern Command, United Kingdom, General Sir Jock Burnett-Stuart (1934 - 1937), as Adjutant, 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade in the United Kingdom and France (1937 - 1940), as a prisoner of war in Germany/Poland (Laufen, Torun, Biberach, Warburg, Spangenberg, Rotenburg and Eisleben, 1940 - 1945), in command of the 8th Battalion in Schleswig Holstein (1945 - 1946); and post-war and (Ulster Unionist) political life 1969 - 1982. The account, though often rambling and `horsey', has excellent descriptions of his unit's actions before his capture at the fall of Calais (May 1940), prisoner of war escape attempts (one with Terence Prittie, pp 107 - 114) and Northern Ireland politics, especially his close involvement in the May 1974 general strike and the Stormont Convention, and gives numerous thoughts on major personalities whom he met, in particular: the Queen, Burnett-Stuart, Enoch Powell, Edward Heath, Airey Neave and Sir Norman Stronge (assassinated in 1982).
Content description
Ts memoir (225pp photocopies; 1982) of his life and military career including: education (Clifton College and Sandhurst, 1914 - 1921), service as an officer with the 3rd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade in Ireland (1921), Turkey (1921 - 1923), with the 1st Battalion in India (1925 - 1927), attached to the 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles in East Africa (1927 - 1932), as ADC to the GOC-in-C Southern Command, United Kingdom, General Sir Jock Burnett-Stuart (1934 - 1937), as Adjutant, 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade in the United Kingdom and France (1937 - 1940), as a prisoner of war in Germany/Poland (Laufen, Torun, Biberach, Warburg, Spangenberg, Rotenburg and Eisleben, 1940 - 1945), in command of the 8th Battalion in Schleswig Holstein (1945 - 1946); and post-war and (Ulster Unionist) political life 1969 - 1982. The account, though often rambling and `horsey', has excellent descriptions of his unit's actions before his capture at the fall of Calais (May 1940), prisoner of war escape attempts (one with Terence Prittie, pp 107 - 114) and Northern Ireland politics, especially his close involvement in the May 1974 general strike and the Stormont Convention, and gives numerous thoughts on major personalities whom he met, in particular: the Queen, Burnett-Stuart, Enoch Powell, Edward Heath, Airey Neave and Sir Norman Stronge (assassinated in 1982).
History note
Cataloguer PHR
History note
Catalogue date 1984-10