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Object description
Wordprocessed edited transcript (24pp) of a diary covering his service in May - June 1940 as a Company Commander in the 2nd Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment (48th Division) and giving a detailed and vivid description of his unit's initial deployment in a village very close to Waterloo in Belgium, their withdrawal to positions in front of Enghien and then on the River Escaut, their further retreat in the face of German ground and air attack, their determined defence of the town of Cassel at the end of May, their withdrawal from Cassel and his capture after his Company had become scattered and exhausted, and the varying degrees of discomfort of his subsequent journey on foot and by lorry and train through France and Germany to Oflag VII C/H at Laufen. The diary includes interesting references to their constant uncertainty about German movements during the fighting, the increasing exhaustion of the officers and men in his Company and his low regard for the French officers whom he encountered both during the campaign and in the first stages of captivity.
Content description
Wordprocessed edited transcript (24pp) of a diary covering his service in May - June 1940 as a Company Commander in the 2nd Battalion The Gloucestershire Regiment (48th Division) and giving a detailed and vivid description of his unit's initial deployment in a village very close to Waterloo in Belgium, their withdrawal to positions in front of Enghien and then on the River Escaut, their further retreat in the face of German ground and air attack, their determined defence of the town of Cassel at the end of May, their withdrawal from Cassel and his capture after his Company had become scattered and exhausted, and the varying degrees of discomfort of his subsequent journey on foot and by lorry and train through France and Germany to Oflag VII C/H at Laufen. The diary includes interesting references to their constant uncertainty about German movements during the fighting, the increasing exhaustion of the officers and men in his Company and his low regard for the French officers whom he encountered both during the campaign and in the first stages of captivity.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 2003-03