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Interesting ts memoir (62pp, written 1988) recording his service as a Yoruba private from Nigeria with the Royal West African Frontier Force, January 1940 - June 1945, including: his family background and schooling; his military training with the 44th General Hospital in Abeokuta, Nigeria; at the 1st Infantry Training Centre, Emugu; his service as a teenage soldier with the 29th Casualty Clearing Station, 6th West African Brigade, 81st (West African) Division in Freetown (Sierra Leone), Ede, and Ife-Ife (Nigeria), from January 1940 - October 1943; his journey to Burma (briefly attached to the 1st Battalion Gambia Regiment, 6th West African Brigade) and active service in the First Kaladan Campaign, October 1943 - March 1944; being badly wounded in a Japanese ambush at Nyron, March 1944; managing to hide with another soldier in Japanese territory with the local Indian inhabitants for over nine months before they were rescued by a patrol of Gurkhas, December 1944; being congratulated by Major General C G Woolner, GOC 81st Division, and his recovery from his wounds in Calcutta; his voyage home and reunion with his family early in 1945; his discharge from the Army on medical grounds, June 1945; commenting on army life and conditions, relations with his officers and comrades, the Allied aerial superiority over the Japanese; and giving his views on religion, the war and its atrocities.
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Cataloguer SNR
History note
Catalogue date 1996-11-28
