Private Papers of Major General H E N Bredin CB DSO MC

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Content description

Photostat copies of ts papers relating to his service in Palestine in 1938 with the Royal Ulster Rifles and Orde Wingate's Special Night Squads, including an appreciation by Wingate (17pp) of the possibility of setting up such squads, an account (4pp) of a Night Squad action at Khirbett Lidd, and the author's brief impression of Wingate (2pp). Also a 32pp list of Palestinian place names with map references and an arab poster.

History note

Catalogue date 1980-01-21

History note

Cataloguer CH

Object details

Category

Private papers

Related period

Interwar (content)

Creator

Bredin, Humphrey Edgar Nicholson

Dimensions

File: Weight 0.4 kg

Box: 4.2

Catalogue number

Documents.4623

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