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Printed booklet (18pp), written in 1994, recording how, as a specialist hydrographic officer, he was appointed to Combined Operations Headquarters in 1942 to help form what became the 712th LCP (Survey) Flotilla which would be responsible for ascertaining the gradient, suitability and nature of enemy-held beaches selected for landing operations, and describing their first operations on the coast of France in November 1942 and February 1943, their participation in the landings on Sicily and at Salerno between July and September 1943 and, in particular, their surveys from November 1943 - January 1944 in advance of the Normandy landings to determine the feasibility of the use of the Mulberry Harbours and to reconnoitre the assault beaches, and their employment with the assault forces on D-Day and after; together with ts transcripts (3pp each) of brief memoirs written in 2001 - 2002 covering his service as an officer in the Merchant Navy from 1928 to the late 1930s and his appointment as a hydrographer in the survey ship HMS ENDEAVOUR off the coast of New Zealand in 1938 - 1939, and photocopies of his ms precis (12pp) of his diary entries for June 1942 - May 1945 which are essentially a summary of his movements with very occasional comments.
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Catalogue date 2002-11
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Cataloguer RWAS
