Description
Object description
Ts memoir (168pp), written in 1993, concerning his service in the Corps of Military Police in Europe, North Africa and Italy during 1939 - 1945, including joining the Territorial Army (July 1939); service with the 53rd (Welsh) Division Provost Company in Cardiff (July - September 1939) and annual training camps at Porthcawl; training in Shrewsbury and near Tenby following mobilisation (September 1939 - January 1940); embarkation to France with No 105 Provost Company for the advance into and retreat from Belgium (January - May 1940); assignment to No 62 Traffic Control Company, Darlington, following promotion to Sergeant (July 1940 - May 1942); posting to No 151 Holding Company, Nottingham (May 1942) and to No 102 Provost Company (1st Corps), Doncaster and Scotland (? May 1942 - February 1943); embarkation overseas to North Africa (February 1943) joining Beach Group personnel at Oued Marsa; landing in Sicily (July 1943), Italy (September 1943) and Anzio (? March 1944); posting to 10th Armoured Division Provost Company in Rome (? June 1944 - February 1945) and to 200 Provost Company, Rome, until his demobilisation (February - November 1945); with comments on Army life, his duties, living conditions and recreational entertainment, the evacuation of troops from La Panne, relations with the French, Italians and Arabs, a soldier's court martial, attendance at the Army Gas School at Winterbourne, the arrest of German spies, dealing with prisoners of war and a visit by HM King George VI and Winston Churchill (August 1944).
Content description
Ts memoir (168pp), written in 1993, concerning his service in the Corps of Military Police in Europe, North Africa and Italy during 1939 - 1945, including joining the Territorial Army (July 1939); service with the 53rd (Welsh) Division Provost Company in Cardiff (July - September 1939) and annual training camps at Porthcawl; training in Shrewsbury and near Tenby following mobilisation (September 1939 - January 1940); embarkation to France with No 105 Provost Company for the advance into and retreat from Belgium (January - May 1940); assignment to No 62 Traffic Control Company, Darlington, following promotion to Sergeant (July 1940 - May 1942); posting to No 151 Holding Company, Nottingham (May 1942) and to No 102 Provost Company (1st Corps), Doncaster and Scotland (? May 1942 - February 1943); embarkation overseas to North Africa (February 1943) joining Beach Group personnel at Oued Marsa; landing in Sicily (July 1943), Italy (September 1943) and Anzio (? March 1944); posting to 10th Armoured Division Provost Company in Rome (? June 1944 - February 1945) and to 200 Provost Company, Rome, until his demobilisation (February - November 1945); with comments on Army life, his duties, living conditions and recreational entertainment, the evacuation of troops from La Panne, relations with the French, Italians and Arabs, a soldier's court martial, attendance at the Army Gas School at Winterbourne, the arrest of German spies, dealing with prisoners of war and a visit by HM King George VI and Winston Churchill (August 1944).
History note
Cataloguer SHJ
History note
Catalogue date 2000-03-22