Description
Object description
Well-written ts memoir with few dates (315pp, written September 1996) recording his service in the ranks and as an officer with the British Army, November 1940 - ?June 1946, including: deferment from service as an architect, 1938 - October 1940; the Blitz on London, September 1940; called-up to 3rd Field Training Regiment Royal Artillery (RA), Manchester, November 1940; 123rd OCTU (RA), Catterick, Yorkshire, spring - summer 1941, leaving to join Anti-Aircraft; service with 54th Heavy Anti-Aircraft (HAA) Regiment RA in Bromley, Kent; Aberporth, South Wales; and Wakefield, Yorkshire, summer 1941 - early 1942; 124th AA "Z" (Rocket) Battery RA, Dover, and pre OCTU School, Laindon, Essex, 1942; 133rd OCTG RA (AA) Regiment, Tonfanau, Wales, January - September 1943, when he was commissioned; service with 202nd (Mixed) "Z" AA (Rocket) Battery, Liverpool, September 1943 - early 1944; 165th OCTU, Dunbar, East Lothian, training for the infantry, early 1944 - February 1944, transferring to the Suffolk Regiment; voyage in HMT NEA HELLAS to Kenya, ?March 1944; active service with the 8th Battalion Northern Rhodesia Regiment in Hargeisha, Somaliland, and Diredowa, Abyssinia, June 1944 - ?February 1945; 1st Battalion KAR, 22nd East African Brigade, and as Intelligence Officer, HQ 22nd East African Brigade, the Arakan, Burma, where he was wounded, and then in Kenya, ?March 1945 - ?June 1946, when he returned to the UK in HMT DOMINION MONARCH and demobilisation; and his comments on army life and incompetence; his duties; his entertainment; African troops; early experiments with rockets; the conditions in Burma; his marriage; and Major General R F Johnstone.
Content description
Well-written ts memoir with few dates (315pp, written September 1996) recording his service in the ranks and as an officer with the British Army, November 1940 - ?June 1946, including: deferment from service as an architect, 1938 - October 1940; the Blitz on London, September 1940; called-up to 3rd Field Training Regiment Royal Artillery (RA), Manchester, November 1940; 123rd OCTU (RA), Catterick, Yorkshire, spring - summer 1941, leaving to join Anti-Aircraft; service with 54th Heavy Anti-Aircraft (HAA) Regiment RA in Bromley, Kent; Aberporth, South Wales; and Wakefield, Yorkshire, summer 1941 - early 1942; 124th AA "Z" (Rocket) Battery RA, Dover, and pre OCTU School, Laindon, Essex, 1942; 133rd OCTG RA (AA) Regiment, Tonfanau, Wales, January - September 1943, when he was commissioned; service with 202nd (Mixed) "Z" AA (Rocket) Battery, Liverpool, September 1943 - early 1944; 165th OCTU, Dunbar, East Lothian, training for the infantry, early 1944 - February 1944, transferring to the Suffolk Regiment; voyage in HMT NEA HELLAS to Kenya, ?March 1944; active service with the 8th Battalion Northern Rhodesia Regiment in Hargeisha, Somaliland, and Diredowa, Abyssinia, June 1944 - ?February 1945; 1st Battalion KAR, 22nd East African Brigade, and as Intelligence Officer, HQ 22nd East African Brigade, the Arakan, Burma, where he was wounded, and then in Kenya, ?March 1945 - ?June 1946, when he returned to the UK in HMT DOMINION MONARCH and demobilisation; and his comments on army life and incompetence; his duties; his entertainment; African troops; early experiments with rockets; the conditions in Burma; his marriage; and Major General R F Johnstone.
History note
Cataloguer SNR
History note
Catalogue date 1997-08-16