Description
Object description
3 ms diaries (total 972pp with ts transcriptions, total 234pp) kept from May 1942 to December 1944 and covering his service in Palestine as Commandant of the Uigher Commanders course at Bir Salim (May - August 1942), in North Africa as GOC 8th Armoured Division (August - November 1942), in India as Major General Armoured Fighting Vehicles (December 1942 - February 1943), in Egypt as CIGS to the Commander in Chief Middle East Forces (February - May 1943), in India as Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles (August 1943 - November 1944) and as Governor of Poona District (November - December 1944) with interesting references to the situation in North Africa during the German advances of mid 1942, to operations against the enemy, including the Battle of El Alamein, the ill-fated Operation Grapeshot (the capture of Tobruk) and Operation Husky (the invasion of Sicily) as well as fascinating comments about Field Marshals Alexander, Montgomery and Slim, General Eisenhower, Lord Mountbatten and Winston Churchill.
Content description
3 ms diaries (total 972pp with ts transcriptions, total 234pp) kept from May 1942 to December 1944 and covering his service in Palestine as Commandant of the Uigher Commanders course at Bir Salim (May - August 1942), in North Africa as GOC 8th Armoured Division (August - November 1942), in India as Major General Armoured Fighting Vehicles (December 1942 - February 1943), in Egypt as CIGS to the Commander in Chief Middle East Forces (February - May 1943), in India as Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles (August 1943 - November 1944) and as Governor of Poona District (November - December 1944) with interesting references to the situation in North Africa during the German advances of mid 1942, to operations against the enemy, including the Battle of El Alamein, the ill-fated Operation Grapeshot (the capture of Tobruk) and Operation Husky (the invasion of Sicily) as well as fascinating comments about Field Marshals Alexander, Montgomery and Slim, General Eisenhower, Lord Mountbatten and Winston Churchill.
History note
Cataloguer AC
History note
Catalogue date 2003-09