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Ts memoir (19pp) of his service as a Royal Army Service Corps driver with the 5th Division during the Second World War, recounting how he immediately and enthusiastically enlisted at the outbreak of war in August 1939 aged 19, his embarkation to France in October 1939, the duties he carried out throughout his treacherous journey to and then his narrow escape from Dunkirk, continuing with an account of his voyage to India when he was recalled at the beginning of 1942, the tropical uniform he was issued on his arrival in Poona, the leisure activities he participated in and rations he received, before setting off along the Persian Gulf to Tel Aviv in December 1942 and then taking part in the campaign in Italy where he was injured, receiving treatment at the General Hospital in Casserta and then convalescing in Sorrento, providing a good example of how medical issues were dealt with during wartime, also commentating throughout on the wider events going on around him, finally describing how he returned to Palestine in June 1944, his promotion to Supply Corporal at the Divisional Headquarters and how he drove through Belgium in the last months of the war, witnessing the capture of many Germany prisoners of war, until he was eventually demobilised in the spring of 1946.
Content description
Ts memoir (19pp) of his service as a Royal Army Service Corps driver with the 5th Division during the Second World War, recounting how he immediately and enthusiastically enlisted at the outbreak of war in August 1939 aged 19, his embarkation to France in October 1939, the duties he carried out throughout his treacherous journey to and then his narrow escape from Dunkirk, continuing with an account of his voyage to India when he was recalled at the beginning of 1942, the tropical uniform he was issued on his arrival in Poona, the leisure activities he participated in and rations he received, before setting off along the Persian Gulf to Tel Aviv in December 1942 and then taking part in the campaign in Italy where he was injured, receiving treatment at the General Hospital in Casserta and then convalescing in Sorrento, providing a good example of how medical issues were dealt with during wartime, also commentating throughout on the wider events going on around him, finally describing how he returned to Palestine in June 1944, his promotion to Supply Corporal at the Divisional Headquarters and how he drove through Belgium in the last months of the war, witnessing the capture of many Germany prisoners of war, until he was eventually demobilised in the spring of 1946.
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Cataloguer CLS
History note
Catalogue date 2007-10-29