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Object description
Wordprocessed memoir (9pp, written 2008), and illustrated with copies of photographs, briefly covering his serving in the Local Defence Volunteers (LDV) (later Home Guard), and working as an assistant engineer at the BBC Transmitter, Clevedon, crashing his motor bike after enlisting in the RAOC and returning to the BBC, volunteering for the Foreign Office Political Intelligence Department (PID) for radio propaganda work as an acting Lieutenant, being stationed in Algiers, broadcasting BBC and American programmes to Southern Europe, sailing to Italy, attached to XIII Corps (Eighth Army), as a Radio Engineer in the Psychological Warfare Branch (PWB), erecting a radio transmitter in Belgrade, Serbia, for Marshal Tito, operating the front-line propaganda transmitter broadcasting as the Voice of the 8th Army 'La Voce dell L'ottava Armata', including front line attached to Eighth Army Combat Team in Italy, and moving to Graz, Austria, after the German surrender, with anecdotes about visiting Palestine and Egypt, and life and accommodation in Italy. Together with photocopies of his enlistment notice (February 1942), a German propaganda leaflet, an Allied Safe Conduct Pass for German soldiers wishing to surrender, a radio organisation chart showing programme lines layout for the PWB in Austria, a reference from the Foreign Office (August 1947).
Content description
Wordprocessed memoir (9pp, written 2008), and illustrated with copies of photographs, briefly covering his serving in the Local Defence Volunteers (LDV) (later Home Guard), and working as an assistant engineer at the BBC Transmitter, Clevedon, crashing his motor bike after enlisting in the RAOC and returning to the BBC, volunteering for the Foreign Office Political Intelligence Department (PID) for radio propaganda work as an acting Lieutenant, being stationed in Algiers, broadcasting BBC and American programmes to Southern Europe, sailing to Italy, attached to XIII Corps (Eighth Army), as a Radio Engineer in the Psychological Warfare Branch (PWB), erecting a radio transmitter in Belgrade, Serbia, for Marshal Tito, operating the front-line propaganda transmitter broadcasting as the Voice of the 8th Army 'La Voce dell L'ottava Armata', including front line attached to Eighth Army Combat Team in Italy, and moving to Graz, Austria, after the German surrender, with anecdotes about visiting Palestine and Egypt, and life and accommodation in Italy. Together with photocopies of his enlistment notice (February 1942), a German propaganda leaflet, an Allied Safe Conduct Pass for German soldiers wishing to surrender, a radio organisation chart showing programme lines layout for the PWB in Austria, a reference from the Foreign Office (August 1947).
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Cataloguer SJO