Private Papers of Captain H F Collinson TD

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Object description

Ts transcript (7pp) of a very graphic letter dated 10 June 1944 to his family in Liverpool describing the final preparations for his service as a Forward Observer Bombardment attached to No 1 Combined Operations Bombardment Unit during the D-Day landings, his embarkation in an assault boat in the early morning of 6 June when he was 'lost in admiration' at the scale of Allied support for the Normandy landings, coming under heavy fire after landing on Sword Beach with the 1st Battalion South Lancashire Regiment (3rd Division) and difficulties in making contact with his Bombardment Liaison Officer in the destroyer HMS VIRAGO and his participation in the subsequent fighting until he was seriously wounded on 7 June and evacuated to England on the night of 8 - 9 June; together with his Army Book 439 recording his services as a Territorial Army officer in the Royal Artillery (1939 - 1944), his demobilisation notification (November 1945), a ts letter (1p), January 1946, from the War Office granting him the honorary rank of Captain, a ts letter (1p), November 1955, from the Army Medal Office concerning the award to him of the Territorial Efficiency Decoration, a photocopy (4pp) of his official record of service in the Army and two photographs of him in uniform (one with his wife).

Content description

History note

Cataloguer RWAS

Object Details

Category: Private papers
Related period: Second World War (content), 1945-1989 (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: Collinson, Hugh Frederick
Dimensions: File: Weight 4.8 kg
Catalogue number: Documents.17931

Object associations

Associated people and organisations

Collinson, Hugh Frederick
Royal Navy, HMS Virago, Destroyer, (1943)
British Army, South Lancashire Regiment, 1st Battalion
British Army, 3rd Division
Collinson, Hugh Frederick
Associated events

D-Day, Normandy Landings 1944, North West Europe, Second World War
Associated items

Waterbottle, Mk. VI, with Carrier, Webbing, 1937 pattern: British Army
Soldier, sailor
Soldier, sailor
Associated subjects

Private Papers
Original documents
Photocopies

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Private Papers of Captain H F Collinson TD

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