Description
Object description
Interesting collection of papers concerning his service as Signals Officer to the 3rd (Tank) Battalion (15th Scottish Division), 1944 - 1946, including a ts history of the Battalion (48pp) from the time of the Normandy landings until the German surrender when the Battalion had reached the Baltic, edited by him from the battalion war diary and notes supplied by numerous officers, 2 brief ts accounts written by him entitled "From Bayeaux to the Baltic" (6pp) and "Five Incidents in North West Europe" (9pp), an ms letter (8pp) written by him shortly after his arrival in Holland in 1944 and describing his experiences of the past three months, a ts account of "Operation Veritable" (13pp), a ts report (19pp) on a postwar survey of youth activities in the British Zone of Germany, a printed message to 21st Army Group from Field Marshal Montgomery (March 1945), a speech by the Duke of Gloucester (March 1943), and some topographical drawings, maps and photographs.
Content description
Interesting collection of papers concerning his service as Signals Officer to the 3rd (Tank) Battalion (15th Scottish Division), 1944 - 1946, including a ts history of the Battalion (48pp) from the time of the Normandy landings until the German surrender when the Battalion had reached the Baltic, edited by him from the battalion war diary and notes supplied by numerous officers, 2 brief ts accounts written by him entitled "From Bayeaux to the Baltic" (6pp) and "Five Incidents in North West Europe" (9pp), an ms letter (8pp) written by him shortly after his arrival in Holland in 1944 and describing his experiences of the past three months, a ts account of "Operation Veritable" (13pp), a ts report (19pp) on a postwar survey of youth activities in the British Zone of Germany, a printed message to 21st Army Group from Field Marshal Montgomery (March 1945), a speech by the Duke of Gloucester (March 1943), and some topographical drawings, maps and photographs.
History note
Cataloguer VAF
History note
Catalogue date 1979-06