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Object description
A ts memoir (21pp, written 2012), illustrated with copies of photographs and documents, of his National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), 1958 – 1960, as a Hygiene Assistant, with details about deferring his Service to finish his exams, his decision to join the RAMC, training at the RAMC's Queen Elizabeth Barracks, Crookham, Hampshire (August – December 1958), basic training and qualifying as a Nursing Orderly, his posting to The Army School of Health, Keogh Barracks, Ash Vale, near Aldershot (1959) and training to be a Hygiene Assistant, being posted to Chester Military Hospital (June 1959), going on a motor cycle riding course, posting to the Central Ordnance Depot at Donnington, Shropshire (1959 - 1960), based in the Medical Reception Station, promotion to Sergeant, making inspections and reports on local Barracks in the area administered by HQ Mid West District, including the King's Shropshire Light Infantry depot in Shrewsbury, and 22nd Special Air Service Regiment, based in Malvern, and then later at Bradbury Lines, Hereford, applying for a position as a Public Health Inspector at Willenhall Urban District Council, an the end of his National Service, with descriptions of accommodation, routines, anecdotes about duties, fellow recruits and instructors, pranks and punishment, having to meet his wife outside barracks, riding motorcycles outside of the Army, and his thoughts about the value of National Service.
Content description
A ts memoir (21pp, written 2012), illustrated with copies of photographs and documents, of his National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), 1958 – 1960, as a Hygiene Assistant, with details about deferring his Service to finish his exams, his decision to join the RAMC, training at the RAMC's Queen Elizabeth Barracks, Crookham, Hampshire (August – December 1958), basic training and qualifying as a Nursing Orderly, his posting to The Army School of Health, Keogh Barracks, Ash Vale, near Aldershot (1959) and training to be a Hygiene Assistant, being posted to Chester Military Hospital (June 1959), going on a motor cycle riding course, posting to the Central Ordnance Depot at Donnington, Shropshire (1959 - 1960), based in the Medical Reception Station, promotion to Sergeant, making inspections and reports on local Barracks in the area administered by HQ Mid West District, including the King's Shropshire Light Infantry depot in Shrewsbury, and 22nd Special Air Service Regiment, based in Malvern, and then later at Bradbury Lines, Hereford, applying for a position as a Public Health Inspector at Willenhall Urban District Council, an the end of his National Service, with descriptions of accommodation, routines, anecdotes about duties, fellow recruits and instructors, pranks and punishment, having to meet his wife outside barracks, riding motorcycles outside of the Army, and his thoughts about the value of National Service.
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