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Photocopied ts memoir (206pp), written in 1945, including details of his service as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Territorial Army, a Staff Officer with Eastern Command (1940) and with the 5th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment in England (1941) and the 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment in India and Burma (1943), describing in detail commanding and training new recruits to his Territorial Army Unit at the outbreak of war, the lack of equipment and unsuitability of battle dress design, being selected for Senior Officer Training and posted as a Staff Officer to Eastern Command, Hounslow (1940), experiencing the Blitz, being posted to the 5th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment (1941), undertaking training, including lectures by Montgomery, in readiness for service overseas, journeying to India via South Africa (1943), arriving in Bombay and exploring the city and surrounding countryside, journeying to Bengal to join the 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment, his distress at the poverty of local people, training for jungle warfare and moving up to the India/Burma border, coming under attack and ambush from Japanese forces, patrolling and fighting in the Mayu Range of mountains, the dangers specific to jungle warfare, the lack of roads and the heavy reliance on pack animal transport, successfully forcing a Japanese retreat and taking over their lines, the atrocities carried out by Japanese forces, the high number of casualties to malaria, his battalion's part in the Battle of Arakan (April 1944) and the Allied victory, being severely wounded by shrapnel, his evacuation to Calcutta and onto the Base Hospital at Secunderabad to receive treatment and his return to England in January 1945.
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Photocopied ts memoir (206pp), written in 1945, including details of his service as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Territorial Army, a Staff Officer with Eastern Command (1940) and with the 5th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment in England (1941) and the 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment in India and Burma (1943), describing in detail commanding and training new recruits to his Territorial Army Unit at the outbreak of war, the lack of equipment and unsuitability of battle dress design, being selected for Senior Officer Training and posted as a Staff Officer to Eastern Command, Hounslow (1940), experiencing the Blitz, being posted to the 5th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment (1941), undertaking training, including lectures by Montgomery, in readiness for service overseas, journeying to India via South Africa (1943), arriving in Bombay and exploring the city and surrounding countryside, journeying to Bengal to join the 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment, his distress at the poverty of local people, training for jungle warfare and moving up to the India/Burma border, coming under attack and ambush from Japanese forces, patrolling and fighting in the Mayu Range of mountains, the dangers specific to jungle warfare, the lack of roads and the heavy reliance on pack animal transport, successfully forcing a Japanese retreat and taking over their lines, the atrocities carried out by Japanese forces, the high number of casualties to malaria, his battalion's part in the Battle of Arakan (April 1944) and the Allied victory, being severely wounded by shrapnel, his evacuation to Calcutta and onto the Base Hospital at Secunderabad to receive treatment and his return to England in January 1945.
History note
Cataloguer JHK
History note
Catalogue date 2007-11-28