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11 ms and ts letters written by him (1941 - 1944) during his service with 13th Battalion The King's Liverpool Regiment (77th Indian Infantry Brigade) in India covering his experiences during the first Chindit Expedition in Burma (1943) and as ADC to Major General Orde Wingate (1943 - 1944); together with ts memoir (21pp, 2 copies) and notes on his service career compiled by his father and based on lost correspondence, a memoir by David Shirreff, letters from his parents, friends, teachers and relations (1935 - 1944), papers relating to his education at Gresham's School, Norfolk, and Selwyn College Cambridge, and to his military service, correspondence and other papers relating to his death in an aircrash with Wingate (March 1944), and his subsequent burial, reburials and commemoration, and a book of presscuttings and loose printed items relating to Chindit operations in Burma.
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Catalogue date 2004-04
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Cataloguer AC
