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Object description
Miscellaneous photocopied papers, plus microfilm copies, including ts and ms drafts of memoirs entitled 'Mixed Nuts for the Bedside' and 'Crying Up The Credit', as well as correspondence about the memoirs and their possible publication, photographs, notes and other material relating to Major General Gattie's service during the First World War and afterwards, including as Adjutant of 3rd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment before the war and 1914 - 1915, Brigade Major, 75th Infantry Brigade (1916), as a Captain in the South Wales Borderers (1917) during which time he was awarded the DSO, on the General Staff at GHQ (1918), as Brigade Major with the British Army on the Rhine (1919), service in India (1919 – 1922, and 1924), time at Camberley (1923), as a General Staff Officer, War Office (1924), Brevet Major (1926), Brigade Major, Rhine Army (1927), as an Instructor in Tactics at the School of Artillery (1929), DAA and Quartermaster General (QMG), Highland Area (1931), Brevet Lieutenant Colonel (1931), Major (1934), GSOII, 43rd (Wessex) Division (1935 – 1937), Lieutenant Colonel (1937), Commander of 1st Battalion Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) (1937 – 1938), Colonel Commanding 2nd (Rawalpindi) Infantry Brigade, India (1938) when he was mentioned in despatches, acting Major General (1941), temporary Major General, District Commander, India (1941), and his post war life.
Content description
Miscellaneous photocopied papers, plus microfilm copies, including ts and ms drafts of memoirs entitled 'Mixed Nuts for the Bedside' and 'Crying Up The Credit', as well as correspondence about the memoirs and their possible publication, photographs, notes and other material relating to Major General Gattie's service during the First World War and afterwards, including as Adjutant of 3rd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment before the war and 1914 - 1915, Brigade Major, 75th Infantry Brigade (1916), as a Captain in the South Wales Borderers (1917) during which time he was awarded the DSO, on the General Staff at GHQ (1918), as Brigade Major with the British Army on the Rhine (1919), service in India (1919 – 1922, and 1924), time at Camberley (1923), as a General Staff Officer, War Office (1924), Brevet Major (1926), Brigade Major, Rhine Army (1927), as an Instructor in Tactics at the School of Artillery (1929), DAA and Quartermaster General (QMG), Highland Area (1931), Brevet Lieutenant Colonel (1931), Major (1934), GSOII, 43rd (Wessex) Division (1935 – 1937), Lieutenant Colonel (1937), Commander of 1st Battalion Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) (1937 – 1938), Colonel Commanding 2nd (Rawalpindi) Infantry Brigade, India (1938) when he was mentioned in despatches, acting Major General (1941), temporary Major General, District Commander, India (1941), and his post war life.
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