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Object description
Brief ts memoir with few dates (14pp) recording his service with the Home Guard, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, and the Royal Ulster Rifles in the UK and North West Europe, 1941 - ?1946, including: serving with the Home Guard in Desertmartin, Northern Ireland, 1941 - May 1942, notably on an army course in Magherafelt, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland; volunteering for and training with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers at Omagh Barracks, Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland from May 1942; transferring to and serving with the 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles (9th brigade, 3rd Division) near Dover, Kent and Fort William, Scotland prior to embarking overseas for active service in Normandy where he won the MM in July 1944 at Troarn and during the advance through Belgium and Holland to the River Maas where he was badly wounded in December 1944; evacuation to the UK by air and hospitalisation in London and Belfast until early ?1946, when he discharged himself; commenting on army life, his attitude towards battle, helping farmers to harvest corn, a leave in Brussels; and mentioning meeting Field Marshal Lord Montgomery in ?September 1944 (p.18)
Content description
Brief ts memoir with few dates (14pp) recording his service with the Home Guard, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, and the Royal Ulster Rifles in the UK and North West Europe, 1941 - ?1946, including: serving with the Home Guard in Desertmartin, Northern Ireland, 1941 - May 1942, notably on an army course in Magherafelt, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland; volunteering for and training with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers at Omagh Barracks, Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland from May 1942; transferring to and serving with the 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles (9th brigade, 3rd Division) near Dover, Kent and Fort William, Scotland prior to embarking overseas for active service in Normandy where he won the MM in July 1944 at Troarn and during the advance through Belgium and Holland to the River Maas where he was badly wounded in December 1944; evacuation to the UK by air and hospitalisation in London and Belfast until early ?1946, when he discharged himself; commenting on army life, his attitude towards battle, helping farmers to harvest corn, a leave in Brussels; and mentioning meeting Field Marshal Lord Montgomery in ?September 1944 (p.18)
History note
Cataloguer SNR
History note
Catalogue date 2000-02-02
