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Four letters (one incomplete, 24pp) sent to his girlfriend (later wife) while on active service as a Lance Corporal with the Assault Troop, 'B' Squadron, 49th Reconnaissance Regiment (49th (West Riding) Division) in Normandy (July 1944 - August 1944) declaring his love for his girlfriend, who works in the library in Aylsham in Norfolk; her relationship with his mother; mentioning news from the Home Front; and recording some of his experiences in battle, notably the casualties in his Troop although "we were in a fairly quiet sector" of the front, sharing "a very comfortable" hole in the ground which "is against a wall in a French farm" and covered by a tent with two comrades, acquiring a French Bible, the destruction caused by the guns of HMS RODNEY which along with the recent fighting has reduced the small town where they are based to "a heap of rubble", his dislike for the Americans who have faced little opposition while the British "are faced by the cream of the Hun army", scrounging and scavenging supplies notably Normandy cider (Calvados) and looting watches and weapons from dead Germans.
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Four letters (one incomplete, 24pp) sent to his girlfriend (later wife) while on active service as a Lance Corporal with the Assault Troop, 'B' Squadron, 49th Reconnaissance Regiment (49th (West Riding) Division) in Normandy (July 1944 - August 1944) declaring his love for his girlfriend, who works in the library in Aylsham in Norfolk; her relationship with his mother; mentioning news from the Home Front; and recording some of his experiences in battle, notably the casualties in his Troop although "we were in a fairly quiet sector" of the front, sharing "a very comfortable" hole in the ground which "is against a wall in a French farm" and covered by a tent with two comrades, acquiring a French Bible, the destruction caused by the guns of HMS RODNEY which along with the recent fighting has reduced the small town where they are based to "a heap of rubble", his dislike for the Americans who have faced little opposition while the British "are faced by the cream of the Hun army", scrounging and scavenging supplies notably Normandy cider (Calvados) and looting watches and weapons from dead Germans.
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