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Object description
Ts memoir (107pp including reproductions of photographs, maps, official documents and other illustrations), together with a later published version (174pp), relating to his service with 902 AA Company RASC (April 1941 - February 1943); 907 AA Company RASC (March 1943 - January 1944); 297 GT Company RASC (February 1944 - December 1945); attached to 961 Company RE (January - February 1946) and 533 Company RASC (March 1946) in the United Kingdom, France and Belgium (from June 1944), Holland (from September 1944) and Germany (from May 1945), describing his enlistment, training as a driver and early duties transporting RA gunners and the Home Guard, army routine and discipline, his wartime wedding, involvement in a lorry accident and hospitalisation, learning to drive DUKWs and using them to rescue a downed German pilot, relations between officers and men, a visit by HM King George VI, his overhearing of classified information about the Slapton Sands disaster, planning for D-Day, his embarkation for Normandy and landing on Juno Beach driving a DUKW, recreational activities, rations, the presence of First World War veterans living in France, periods of leave in Brussels, being in action and involvement with Operation 'Market Garden', casualties sustained, Christmas celebrations while billeted with a Dutch family, V2 rockets, a visit by Winston Churchill to Holland, the transport of petrol from the PLUTO pipeline, the use of depth charges to clear rivers of debris, his demobilisation in 1946 and subsequent call up for training in 1952 as a reservist.
Content description
Ts memoir (107pp including reproductions of photographs, maps, official documents and other illustrations), together with a later published version (174pp), relating to his service with 902 AA Company RASC (April 1941 - February 1943); 907 AA Company RASC (March 1943 - January 1944); 297 GT Company RASC (February 1944 - December 1945); attached to 961 Company RE (January - February 1946) and 533 Company RASC (March 1946) in the United Kingdom, France and Belgium (from June 1944), Holland (from September 1944) and Germany (from May 1945), describing his enlistment, training as a driver and early duties transporting RA gunners and the Home Guard, army routine and discipline, his wartime wedding, involvement in a lorry accident and hospitalisation, learning to drive DUKWs and using them to rescue a downed German pilot, relations between officers and men, a visit by HM King George VI, his overhearing of classified information about the Slapton Sands disaster, planning for D-Day, his embarkation for Normandy and landing on Juno Beach driving a DUKW, recreational activities, rations, the presence of First World War veterans living in France, periods of leave in Brussels, being in action and involvement with Operation 'Market Garden', casualties sustained, Christmas celebrations while billeted with a Dutch family, V2 rockets, a visit by Winston Churchill to Holland, the transport of petrol from the PLUTO pipeline, the use of depth charges to clear rivers of debris, his demobilisation in 1946 and subsequent call up for training in 1952 as a reservist.
History note
Cataloguer KB
History note
Catalogue date 2002-05-17