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A self-published book (111pp, 2015) entitled 'The Experiences of a National Serviceman, 1955 - 1957', together with an earlier ts account (44pp, written February 2014), illustrated with copies of photographs, sketches and maps, of his recollections of the Suez Crisis, 1956, while serving as a National Serviceman, as a Clerk, in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), with details of his family and background, being called up for National Service in November 1955 (intake 55/23), medical training at Queen Elizabeth Barracks, Fleet, Hampshire, posting to 15th Field Ambulance RAMC (29th Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division), based at Hobbs Barracks, Lingfield, Surrey, moving to Tilshead Lodge, No 2 Camp Salisbury Plain to prepare for deployment (August 1956), embarking in HMT ASTORIA for Egypt (October 1956), details of the journey, landing in Port Said during the fighting, billet in a school near the Casino Palace Hotel where the Field Ambulance was stationed, guard duty, the cease fire (November 1956), details of the Casino Palace Hotel, casualties and other patients due mostly to accidents post fighting, mass graves for Egyptian dead, and a series of anecdotes about refugees, accommodation, recreation, details of fellow soldiers, and returning home via Malta and Algiers (December 1956), with thoughts about feeling let down by politicians, later excercises on Salisbury Plain, and brief details of his later life including as Mayor of Lostwithiel, and also includes transcriptions of ten letters written by Stuchbery to his parents in St Albans (July – December 1956) with explanatory notes, and a transcription of a letter written by his father, Theodore Stuchbery (November 1956). Together with: his original medical training notebook from Queen Elizabeth Barracks (45pp, December 1955 - January 1956); Army Certificate of Education Third Class (December 1955); the 10 original ms letters from him to his parents and the letter from his father (25pp plus one envelope, July - December 1956); a ms letter to his mother (3pp, September 1947) from Windmill Hill Camp, Ludgershall, giving details of his accommodation, weather and duties; seven anotated photographs, 1955 - 1956, two used as postcards to his parents and aunt, showing 'B' Training Company, Queen Elizabeth Barracks, Fleet (December 1955), one of 'E' Training Company QE Barracks (March 1956), a photo of Thetford Training Area (May 1956), a photo of Captain Roylance and Lieutenant Colonel Fry of 15 Field Ambulance (1956), unloading a lorry at Port Said, a photo of Stuchbery, Cpl Trudgen and Pte Hemmings in the street in Port Said armed with rifles; a postcard of the Casino Palace Hotel; a notice given to him on completing service in the RAMC TA (AF D401); a letter from his employer, John Dale & Col Ltd offering him employment after leaving the Army (October 1956); a form regarding the transportation of his suitcase by train (November 1956); and an earlier ts diary (29pp) entitled 'What Really Happened on Salisbury Plain AD 1957' (plus 34pp ts transcription, including explanatory notes and introduction) compiled by several men in the command post staff, including Stuchbery, with the 15th Field Ambulance RAMC (3rd Infantry Division), while on an annual Technical Training Scheme on Salisbury Plain, (August – September 1957), with details of preparations for going on the scheme, moving to Salisbury Plain, details of the units and equipment, accommodation under canvas, having to constantly put up and take down tents, food, weather, taking part in Exercise August Moon, time at Windmill Hill camp, an influenza outbreak, and the course of the schemes, and also includes a ts transcription of a letter written by the unit and sent to Horlicks, Frys, Oxo, Cadbury's and Ovaltine, thanking them for their products which had come in handy on the training scheme on Salisbury Plain, and copies of the replies received from the companies who also enclosed free samples.
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A self-published book (111pp, 2015) entitled 'The Experiences of a National Serviceman, 1955 - 1957', together with an earlier ts account (44pp, written February 2014), illustrated with copies of photographs, sketches and maps, of his recollections of the Suez Crisis, 1956, while serving as a National Serviceman, as a Clerk, in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), with details of his family and background, being called up for National Service in November 1955 (intake 55/23), medical training at Queen Elizabeth Barracks, Fleet, Hampshire, posting to 15th Field Ambulance RAMC (29th Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division), based at Hobbs Barracks, Lingfield, Surrey, moving to Tilshead Lodge, No 2 Camp Salisbury Plain to prepare for deployment (August 1956), embarking in HMT ASTORIA for Egypt (October 1956), details of the journey, landing in Port Said during the fighting, billet in a school near the Casino Palace Hotel where the Field Ambulance was stationed, guard duty, the cease fire (November 1956), details of the Casino Palace Hotel, casualties and other patients due mostly to accidents post fighting, mass graves for Egyptian dead, and a series of anecdotes about refugees, accommodation, recreation, details of fellow soldiers, and returning home via Malta and Algiers (December 1956), with thoughts about feeling let down by politicians, later excercises on Salisbury Plain, and brief details of his later life including as Mayor of Lostwithiel, and also includes transcriptions of ten letters written by Stuchbery to his parents in St Albans (July – December 1956) with explanatory notes, and a transcription of a letter written by his father, Theodore Stuchbery (November 1956). Together with: his original medical training notebook from Queen Elizabeth Barracks (45pp, December 1955 - January 1956); Army Certificate of Education Third Class (December 1955); the 10 original ms letters from him to his parents and the letter from his father (25pp plus one envelope, July - December 1956); a ms letter to his mother (3pp, September 1947) from Windmill Hill Camp, Ludgershall, giving details of his accommodation, weather and duties; seven anotated photographs, 1955 - 1956, two used as postcards to his parents and aunt, showing 'B' Training Company, Queen Elizabeth Barracks, Fleet (December 1955), one of 'E' Training Company QE Barracks (March 1956), a photo of Thetford Training Area (May 1956), a photo of Captain Roylance and Lieutenant Colonel Fry of 15 Field Ambulance (1956), unloading a lorry at Port Said, a photo of Stuchbery, Cpl Trudgen and Pte Hemmings in the street in Port Said armed with rifles; a postcard of the Casino Palace Hotel; a notice given to him on completing service in the RAMC TA (AF D401); a letter from his employer, John Dale & Col Ltd offering him employment after leaving the Army (October 1956); a form regarding the transportation of his suitcase by train (November 1956); and an earlier ts diary (29pp) entitled 'What Really Happened on Salisbury Plain AD 1957' (plus 34pp ts transcription, including explanatory notes and introduction) compiled by several men in the command post staff, including Stuchbery, with the 15th Field Ambulance RAMC (3rd Infantry Division), while on an annual Technical Training Scheme on Salisbury Plain, (August – September 1957), with details of preparations for going on the scheme, moving to Salisbury Plain, details of the units and equipment, accommodation under canvas, having to constantly put up and take down tents, food, weather, taking part in Exercise August Moon, time at Windmill Hill camp, an influenza outbreak, and the course of the schemes, and also includes a ts transcription of a letter written by the unit and sent to Horlicks, Frys, Oxo, Cadbury's and Ovaltine, thanking them for their products which had come in handy on the training scheme on Salisbury Plain, and copies of the replies received from the companies who also enclosed free samples.
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