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Photocopies of his two brief ts memoirs (5pp) recording his active service as a junior officer with Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers) on the journey (4pp, undated) through France to Palestine (January 1940) to form the 1st Cavalry Division, highlighting the initiative of a Corporal and a French Railways Engine Driver in treating sick horses and of a Squadron Leader who commandeered a horse on D-Day (June 1944) in order to establish contact with the OC Essex Regiment who he then supported in capturing Bayeux, and during his first two patrols in North Africa (April 1941 and July 1941) as commander of the Yeomanry Patrol of the LRDG (1p, written 1960), which he had raised and trained (Autumn 1940), including being wounded on his first patrol south of Barce (April 1941) and on his second patrol (July 1941) from his base at Siwa Oasis taking a British Agent to the hills in the Gebel south-east of Slonta some 200 miles into enemy held territory and then returning with him, and commenting on seeing a cheetah and her three cubs, lacking water for either washing or shaving, and his subsequent return to the Sherwood Rangers (September) who had lost an entire Squadron during the Battle of Crete.
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Photocopies of his two brief ts memoirs (5pp) recording his active service as a junior officer with Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers) on the journey (4pp, undated) through France to Palestine (January 1940) to form the 1st Cavalry Division, highlighting the initiative of a Corporal and a French Railways Engine Driver in treating sick horses and of a Squadron Leader who commandeered a horse on D-Day (June 1944) in order to establish contact with the OC Essex Regiment who he then supported in capturing Bayeux, and during his first two patrols in North Africa (April 1941 and July 1941) as commander of the Yeomanry Patrol of the LRDG (1p, written 1960), which he had raised and trained (Autumn 1940), including being wounded on his first patrol south of Barce (April 1941) and on his second patrol (July 1941) from his base at Siwa Oasis taking a British Agent to the hills in the Gebel south-east of Slonta some 200 miles into enemy held territory and then returning with him, and commenting on seeing a cheetah and her three cubs, lacking water for either washing or shaving, and his subsequent return to the Sherwood Rangers (September) who had lost an entire Squadron during the Battle of Crete.