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Object description
Ts account (133pp, written 1992) recording his service in the TA with the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC), 1938 - ?1946, including: volunteering for the TA and joining the 41st AA Brigade Company RASC in 1938, learning to drive lorries; mobilisation, August 1939; garrison duties in Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, and Norfolk, August - ?September 1939, when his unit was broken up; service as a driver, Mess Waiter, and Batman with No 928 Company RASC at Hookwood, Surrey, December 1939, and 3rd Corps Troops Supply Column in the UK (Broadstairs, Kent), France (Hattenville, Montevilliers, and Béthune) and Belgium (Ploegsteert), January - June 1940, notably the evacuation from Dunkirk; rejoining 3rd Corps HQ at Whitchurch, Shropshire, ?July 1940 - autumn 1941; driving lorries with the 3rd Corps Supply Column, Northern Ireland, autumn 1941 - early 1942; driver to the CRASC and with RASC Companies of the 1st AA Division, early 1942 - early 1943; driving an ambulance attached to the 33rd Field Dressing Station RAMC in Westbury, Wiltshire, and then in Scotland (training as part of No 8 Beach Group, Combined Operations), Bournemouth, and Southampton, and North West Europe (landing in Normandy on D-Day, June 1944), early 1943 - ?1946, when he was demobilised; commenting on being homesick; his duties; the conditions; the food; the 'Phoney War'; officer-men relations; German air raids; the Blitz; the death of his mother; Physical Training Course at the Metropolitan Police College, Hendon; relations with the Belgians; entertaining the troops; and mentioning Colonel E G Loudoun-Shand.
Content description
Ts account (133pp, written 1992) recording his service in the TA with the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC), 1938 - ?1946, including: volunteering for the TA and joining the 41st AA Brigade Company RASC in 1938, learning to drive lorries; mobilisation, August 1939; garrison duties in Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, and Norfolk, August - ?September 1939, when his unit was broken up; service as a driver, Mess Waiter, and Batman with No 928 Company RASC at Hookwood, Surrey, December 1939, and 3rd Corps Troops Supply Column in the UK (Broadstairs, Kent), France (Hattenville, Montevilliers, and Béthune) and Belgium (Ploegsteert), January - June 1940, notably the evacuation from Dunkirk; rejoining 3rd Corps HQ at Whitchurch, Shropshire, ?July 1940 - autumn 1941; driving lorries with the 3rd Corps Supply Column, Northern Ireland, autumn 1941 - early 1942; driver to the CRASC and with RASC Companies of the 1st AA Division, early 1942 - early 1943; driving an ambulance attached to the 33rd Field Dressing Station RAMC in Westbury, Wiltshire, and then in Scotland (training as part of No 8 Beach Group, Combined Operations), Bournemouth, and Southampton, and North West Europe (landing in Normandy on D-Day, June 1944), early 1943 - ?1946, when he was demobilised; commenting on being homesick; his duties; the conditions; the food; the 'Phoney War'; officer-men relations; German air raids; the Blitz; the death of his mother; Physical Training Course at the Metropolitan Police College, Hendon; relations with the Belgians; entertaining the troops; and mentioning Colonel E G Loudoun-Shand.
History note
Cataloguer SNR
History note
Catalogue date 1998-10-08