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Object description
Ts autobiography (439pp, in 3 volumes, 1909 - 1978) covering his early life in Hull and Grimsby during and after the First World War and his military service in the 1st Battalion Royal Lincolnshire Regiment (1929 - 1936), ultimately as an NCO, stationed in Gibraltar (1930 - 1932), Shanghai (1932 - 1933), Hong Kong (1933 - 1936) and Nasirabad, India (1936) in which, in impressive detail, he recalls his military duties, army life and local civilian conditions, with an account of his experiences in Grimsby (1936 - 1939) prior to being called up as a reservist, and of his service, again as a NCO, with the 2nd Battalion Royal Lincolnshire Regiment in Dorset and France (September - December 1939), as an instructor with the 4th Battalion in England and, as part of 146th Brigade, in Norway (April - May 1940) with useful descriptions of the landing at Namsos and subsequent engagement of the enemy without proper food, transport or medical back-up, in Iceland, again with the 4th Battalion (1940 - 1942), where he noted harsh conditions and poor relations with the local population, and in England as a Permanent Staff Instructor (eventually CSM) attached to the Green Howards training Home Guard units mainly in Lincolnshire (c1942 - 1944) and at Park Hall Royal Artillery camp, Oswestry, Shropshire (1944 - 1945).
Content description
Ts autobiography (439pp, in 3 volumes, 1909 - 1978) covering his early life in Hull and Grimsby during and after the First World War and his military service in the 1st Battalion Royal Lincolnshire Regiment (1929 - 1936), ultimately as an NCO, stationed in Gibraltar (1930 - 1932), Shanghai (1932 - 1933), Hong Kong (1933 - 1936) and Nasirabad, India (1936) in which, in impressive detail, he recalls his military duties, army life and local civilian conditions, with an account of his experiences in Grimsby (1936 - 1939) prior to being called up as a reservist, and of his service, again as a NCO, with the 2nd Battalion Royal Lincolnshire Regiment in Dorset and France (September - December 1939), as an instructor with the 4th Battalion in England and, as part of 146th Brigade, in Norway (April - May 1940) with useful descriptions of the landing at Namsos and subsequent engagement of the enemy without proper food, transport or medical back-up, in Iceland, again with the 4th Battalion (1940 - 1942), where he noted harsh conditions and poor relations with the local population, and in England as a Permanent Staff Instructor (eventually CSM) attached to the Green Howards training Home Guard units mainly in Lincolnshire (c1942 - 1944) and at Park Hall Royal Artillery camp, Oswestry, Shropshire (1944 - 1945).
History note
Cataloguer AC
History note
Catalogue date 1996-02