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Object description
Ts questionnaire (8pp, October 2002) recording his experiences with the Home Guard and as a private with the Monmouthshire Regiment in North West Europe (1941 - 1945), including working in an iron foundry in Swansea aged 14 on the outbreak of war (September 1939), service with the Home Guard in Treboeth (1941 – 1943); being called up (1943); basic training at Brecon-Powys (no dates); service with the 2nd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment (160th Brigade, 53rd (Welsh) Division) at Sittingbourne, Tenterden and Whitstable in Kent and in Normandy, Holland and Germany (June 1944 – ?March 1945) notably the Reichswald Forest (February 1945 – March 1945) where he was wounded in the hand and wrist and evacuated to Belgium and then the UK for treatment (no dates); training at Newtown, Wales until demobilisation (no dates); and commenting on his father being wounded and gassed in the First World War; his training and duties with the Home Guard; army life, notably the raining, the billets; being punished for missing Church parade; leave; an ENSA concert; using a ladder to evacuate a wounded officer; relations with the local Belgian, French and Dutch populations; witnessing the shaving of the hair of girls who collaborated with the Germans; the loss of friends; the treatment of his wounds; and his approval of the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan.
Content description
Ts questionnaire (8pp, October 2002) recording his experiences with the Home Guard and as a private with the Monmouthshire Regiment in North West Europe (1941 - 1945), including working in an iron foundry in Swansea aged 14 on the outbreak of war (September 1939), service with the Home Guard in Treboeth (1941 – 1943); being called up (1943); basic training at Brecon-Powys (no dates); service with the 2nd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment (160th Brigade, 53rd (Welsh) Division) at Sittingbourne, Tenterden and Whitstable in Kent and in Normandy, Holland and Germany (June 1944 – ?March 1945) notably the Reichswald Forest (February 1945 – March 1945) where he was wounded in the hand and wrist and evacuated to Belgium and then the UK for treatment (no dates); training at Newtown, Wales until demobilisation (no dates); and commenting on his father being wounded and gassed in the First World War; his training and duties with the Home Guard; army life, notably the raining, the billets; being punished for missing Church parade; leave; an ENSA concert; using a ladder to evacuate a wounded officer; relations with the local Belgian, French and Dutch populations; witnessing the shaving of the hair of girls who collaborated with the Germans; the loss of friends; the treatment of his wounds; and his approval of the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan.
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