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Object description
Interesting ts memoir (33pp, written in November 2008) with few dates recording his National Service with The Loyal Regiment (1956 – 1958), including his initial training at catterick Camp, North Yorkshire (? 1956 – March 1956) passing his WOSB (no date) and his training at Officer Cadet School at Eaton Hall in Cheshire (March 1956 – June 1956) including Battle Camp in Snowdonia, North Wales (June 1956); flying to Singapore no date but c early 1957); active service for 14 months with 1st Battalion Loyal Regiment at Ipoh in Malaya (no dates) as a platoon commander, patrolling the jungle between the Kinta Valley and Ipoh, capturing a CT (Communist Terrorist) for which he was mentioned in despatches, and attending the Jungle Warfare School near Johore (no dates, but 1957 - 1958); his subsequent career commenting on army life, notably the barrack room, the 'bull', the officers and NCOs, officer training, jungle training at the Jungle Warfare School, and the class system, the jungle, the wild life, the Iban trackers, and the members of his platoon; and mentioning RSM D T Lynch (pp.5-7) and Brigadier (later General Sir Basil) Eugster (p.5).
Content description
Interesting ts memoir (33pp, written in November 2008) with few dates recording his National Service with The Loyal Regiment (1956 – 1958), including his initial training at catterick Camp, North Yorkshire (? 1956 – March 1956) passing his WOSB (no date) and his training at Officer Cadet School at Eaton Hall in Cheshire (March 1956 – June 1956) including Battle Camp in Snowdonia, North Wales (June 1956); flying to Singapore no date but c early 1957); active service for 14 months with 1st Battalion Loyal Regiment at Ipoh in Malaya (no dates) as a platoon commander, patrolling the jungle between the Kinta Valley and Ipoh, capturing a CT (Communist Terrorist) for which he was mentioned in despatches, and attending the Jungle Warfare School near Johore (no dates, but 1957 - 1958); his subsequent career commenting on army life, notably the barrack room, the 'bull', the officers and NCOs, officer training, jungle training at the Jungle Warfare School, and the class system, the jungle, the wild life, the Iban trackers, and the members of his platoon; and mentioning RSM D T Lynch (pp.5-7) and Brigadier (later General Sir Basil) Eugster (p.5).
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