Description
Object description
4 bound volumes containing transcripts of his exceptionally detailed diaries and copies of some of his letters home and other contemporary documents (December 1942 - September 1945) relating to his service in the Royal Artillery with the 17th Field Regiment (1st Guards Brigade, 78th Division and 6th Armoured Division) in North Africa and Sicily (December 1942 - September 1943), in command of 481 Battery, 116th Field Regiment (176th Infantry Brigade, 59th Division) in Normandy and North West Europe (June - December 1944), in command of 217 Battery, 112th Field Regiment (43rd Division) in Belgium and Germany (December 1944 - February 1945), and in command of 55th Field Regiment (Guards Armoured Division) in Germany (February - September 1945), with excellent vivid descriptions of his voyage to North Africa on the troopship CAMERONIA (which was torpedoed), operations during the Battles of Bou Arada (January 1943), Ohed Zarga (April 1943) and Medjez Plain (April 1943) and the end of the Tunisian campaign, operations at Centuripe, Adrano and Randazzo, Sicily, the Battles for Caen and the Orne (where he won a DSO), conditions in the Netherlands in the winter of 1944 - 1945, the Rhine Crossing (March 1945) and subsequent operations in Germany, with useful references to American and French forces in Tunisia, his thoughts and feelings about being in action, the Allied invasion of Italy, civilian conditions in France, the Netherlands and Germany, two instances where soldiers had premonitions of their deaths, relations with German civilians before and after VE Day, the German concentration and prisoner of war camps at Westertimke and Sandbostel (Stalag XB) and VE Day celebrations; together with a photograph of him not in uniform.
Content description
4 bound volumes containing transcripts of his exceptionally detailed diaries and copies of some of his letters home and other contemporary documents (December 1942 - September 1945) relating to his service in the Royal Artillery with the 17th Field Regiment (1st Guards Brigade, 78th Division and 6th Armoured Division) in North Africa and Sicily (December 1942 - September 1943), in command of 481 Battery, 116th Field Regiment (176th Infantry Brigade, 59th Division) in Normandy and North West Europe (June - December 1944), in command of 217 Battery, 112th Field Regiment (43rd Division) in Belgium and Germany (December 1944 - February 1945), and in command of 55th Field Regiment (Guards Armoured Division) in Germany (February - September 1945), with excellent vivid descriptions of his voyage to North Africa on the troopship CAMERONIA (which was torpedoed), operations during the Battles of Bou Arada (January 1943), Ohed Zarga (April 1943) and Medjez Plain (April 1943) and the end of the Tunisian campaign, operations at Centuripe, Adrano and Randazzo, Sicily, the Battles for Caen and the Orne (where he won a DSO), conditions in the Netherlands in the winter of 1944 - 1945, the Rhine Crossing (March 1945) and subsequent operations in Germany, with useful references to American and French forces in Tunisia, his thoughts and feelings about being in action, the Allied invasion of Italy, civilian conditions in France, the Netherlands and Germany, two instances where soldiers had premonitions of their deaths, relations with German civilians before and after VE Day, the German concentration and prisoner of war camps at Westertimke and Sandbostel (Stalag XB) and VE Day celebrations; together with a photograph of him not in uniform.
History note
Cataloguer AC
History note
Catalogue date 2006-10