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Object description
Ts account (21pp, written in 1995) recording his service in the ranks with the British Army in the UK, North West Europe, and Austria, 1941 - ?1946, including: training as a gunner/operator with the RAC at Warminster, Bovington, and Lulworth Cove, 1941; service in Churchill tanks as a driver/operator with 15th Troop, 'C' Squadron, 9th Battalion RTR (31st Tank Brigade), 1941 - ?July 1945, notably training in Charing, Kent (?1941 - ?June 1944), preparing for D-Day at Aldershot camp and active service in Normandy in the Battles of Cheux, Hill 112, Odon and Caen (July 1944), clearing Le Havre (?August 1944), the advance through Belgium into Holland towards Arnhem (as part of 34th Tank Brigade, September 1944), clearing the Scheldt (October - November 1944), taking part in the Battle of the Reichswald and the crossing of the Rhine (as part of 34th Armoured Brigade, February 1945 - ?July 1945); transferring to 4th RTR for service in the Far East but being sent to occupy Austria at the end of the war, ?July 1945 - ?1946; commenting on Army life; being victimised by one NCO; officer/men relations; being put on a charge for crashing his tank; army sport and off-duty entertainment; celebrating his 21st Birthday; the conditions, the rations, the unfriendliness of French civilians, wireless sets, displaced persons, his experiences and reactions during battle.
Content description
Ts account (21pp, written in 1995) recording his service in the ranks with the British Army in the UK, North West Europe, and Austria, 1941 - ?1946, including: training as a gunner/operator with the RAC at Warminster, Bovington, and Lulworth Cove, 1941; service in Churchill tanks as a driver/operator with 15th Troop, 'C' Squadron, 9th Battalion RTR (31st Tank Brigade), 1941 - ?July 1945, notably training in Charing, Kent (?1941 - ?June 1944), preparing for D-Day at Aldershot camp and active service in Normandy in the Battles of Cheux, Hill 112, Odon and Caen (July 1944), clearing Le Havre (?August 1944), the advance through Belgium into Holland towards Arnhem (as part of 34th Tank Brigade, September 1944), clearing the Scheldt (October - November 1944), taking part in the Battle of the Reichswald and the crossing of the Rhine (as part of 34th Armoured Brigade, February 1945 - ?July 1945); transferring to 4th RTR for service in the Far East but being sent to occupy Austria at the end of the war, ?July 1945 - ?1946; commenting on Army life; being victimised by one NCO; officer/men relations; being put on a charge for crashing his tank; army sport and off-duty entertainment; celebrating his 21st Birthday; the conditions, the rations, the unfriendliness of French civilians, wireless sets, displaced persons, his experiences and reactions during battle.
History note
Cataloguer SNR
History note
Catalogue date 2000-09-18
