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Object description
A collection of papers relating to his service as a Staff Controller in No 3 Technical Stores Depot, 15th Base Ordnance Depot (BOD), Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) including: Eight ms notebooks containing detailed and illustrated training notes from his time as a Lance Corporal in 3rd Anti-Aircraft (AA) Divisional Signals in Edinburgh, with entries on weapons and weapon training, Passive Air Defence, duties of Guard Commanders, map reading, fire fighting, and enemy recognition, and from his time as a 2nd Lieutenant in Signal Stores in Donnington (1943) including details of the structure and organisation of the British Army and the RAOC's role in particular, details of the types of equipment Signal Stores would have handled, and the layout and procedures at Donnington; a ts account (11pp) of the story of the 15th and 17th Advanced Ordnance Depots (AOD), RAOC, in France and Belgium, set up to supply 21st Army Group, with additional references to 14th and 16th AOD, from landing in Normandy (June 1944), roles and duties, movements, amounts of ordnance issued, numbers of personnel, organisation of the AODs and attached Depots, 15 AOD entering Antwerp, Belgium (September 1944) and being joined by 17 AOD (October 1944), and later 16 AOD, and the addition of Belgian civilians to work as clerks; a ts list (4pp) of incidents involving damage caused by Vengeance Weapons, V1 and V2 rockets, in the 15th AOD area in Antwerp (October 1944 – March 1945); his Soldiers' Service and Pay Book (Army Book 64); his Officers' Release Book (Army Book X 803); a Safe Conduct pass (2pp) for use by German soldiers wishing to give themselves up; copies of six French, Belgian and Dutch newspapers from 8 May 1945 announcing the capitulation of the German Army and VE Day; his War Department Driving Permit (May 1945); his Officer's Advance Book (Army Form W 3241) (November 1945); letters relating to his leaving active duty (February – March 1946) and his return to his pre-war job at Lever Brothers, Port Sunlight, Limited, in Cheshire, under the Reinstatement in Civil Employment Act; congratulation messages from friends on his promotion to Captain (August 1945); a ms letter from his friend, Captain Fred Appleby (6pp plus envelope, November 1945) detailing his return home for demob, and providing information for those about to do the same, with details of the route, getting a suit, and conditions back home; a reference for Mrs F Ivers (née Balls) who had worked for him and was trying to regain British citizenship after marrying a German who had since died (September 1946); three ms letters (15pp plus envelope, dated January – May 1946), from Lucienne Lietaer, a secretary of his in Antwerp, updating him on the AOD, friends and colleagues, and her post-war situation in Antwerp, finding jobs after resigning from the Ordnance Depot, and an invitation to her wedding (September 1952); two photographs showing a group of young ladies, and a lady at a typewriter (possibly Lucy Lietaer); six photographs of Repton, including on a motorbike, and a group shot of an unnamed unit; and various other administrative papers.
Content description
A collection of papers relating to his service as a Staff Controller in No 3 Technical Stores Depot, 15th Base Ordnance Depot (BOD), Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) including: Eight ms notebooks containing detailed and illustrated training notes from his time as a Lance Corporal in 3rd Anti-Aircraft (AA) Divisional Signals in Edinburgh, with entries on weapons and weapon training, Passive Air Defence, duties of Guard Commanders, map reading, fire fighting, and enemy recognition, and from his time as a 2nd Lieutenant in Signal Stores in Donnington (1943) including details of the structure and organisation of the British Army and the RAOC's role in particular, details of the types of equipment Signal Stores would have handled, and the layout and procedures at Donnington; a ts account (11pp) of the story of the 15th and 17th Advanced Ordnance Depots (AOD), RAOC, in France and Belgium, set up to supply 21st Army Group, with additional references to 14th and 16th AOD, from landing in Normandy (June 1944), roles and duties, movements, amounts of ordnance issued, numbers of personnel, organisation of the AODs and attached Depots, 15 AOD entering Antwerp, Belgium (September 1944) and being joined by 17 AOD (October 1944), and later 16 AOD, and the addition of Belgian civilians to work as clerks; a ts list (4pp) of incidents involving damage caused by Vengeance Weapons, V1 and V2 rockets, in the 15th AOD area in Antwerp (October 1944 – March 1945); his Soldiers' Service and Pay Book (Army Book 64); his Officers' Release Book (Army Book X 803); a Safe Conduct pass (2pp) for use by German soldiers wishing to give themselves up; copies of six French, Belgian and Dutch newspapers from 8 May 1945 announcing the capitulation of the German Army and VE Day; his War Department Driving Permit (May 1945); his Officer's Advance Book (Army Form W 3241) (November 1945); letters relating to his leaving active duty (February – March 1946) and his return to his pre-war job at Lever Brothers, Port Sunlight, Limited, in Cheshire, under the Reinstatement in Civil Employment Act; congratulation messages from friends on his promotion to Captain (August 1945); a ms letter from his friend, Captain Fred Appleby (6pp plus envelope, November 1945) detailing his return home for demob, and providing information for those about to do the same, with details of the route, getting a suit, and conditions back home; a reference for Mrs F Ivers (née Balls) who had worked for him and was trying to regain British citizenship after marrying a German who had since died (September 1946); three ms letters (15pp plus envelope, dated January – May 1946), from Lucienne Lietaer, a secretary of his in Antwerp, updating him on the AOD, friends and colleagues, and her post-war situation in Antwerp, finding jobs after resigning from the Ordnance Depot, and an invitation to her wedding (September 1952); two photographs showing a group of young ladies, and a lady at a typewriter (possibly Lucy Lietaer); six photographs of Repton, including on a motorbike, and a group shot of an unnamed unit; and various other administrative papers.
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