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Object description
[BASIC ACCESSION RECORD] Word-processed ts transcription (308pp) of a detailed diary (January 1941 – May 1946, but with notes for events just before and after), illustrated throughout with copies of map, photographs, and itineraries, of his service with the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC),
RASC Training Unit in Sowerby Bridge and Aldershot (July 1940 – January 1941), HMT SAMARIA? Sailing to Suez, Egypt (January – March 1941)
RASC Training Unit, Base Depot, Geneifa (March – May 1941), HQ Western Desert Force, Bagush, (May – September 1941), organising transport
Supplies and Transport Unit, XIII Corps (Eighth Army), based at Hawala (September – October 1941), moving to Tobruk, Libya (December 1941), hospital (May 1942), returning to Egypt, based at GHQ Cairo (July 1942 – January 1943), moving to GHQ Financial Advisor and Army Audit Unit at 5th Base Ordnance Depot RASC at Tel el Kebir, opening the accounts office and being in charge of Egyptian civilian staff, with promotion to Staff Sergeant (January 1943 – March 1944), promotion to WOII, Staff Quarter Master Sergeant (March 1944 – June 1945), 5th BOD moving to various places, Scotland, England, Germany (June – December 1945), getting married to his wife, Joan, in Macclesfield (July 1945), moving to Finance and Army Audit Office, Belgium (January – July 1946), returning home to Macclesfield Education Office (May – August 1946), and his demob (August 1946).
Content description
[BASIC ACCESSION RECORD] Word-processed ts transcription (308pp) of a detailed diary (January 1941 – May 1946, but with notes for events just before and after), illustrated throughout with copies of map, photographs, and itineraries, of his service with the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC),
RASC Training Unit in Sowerby Bridge and Aldershot (July 1940 – January 1941), HMT SAMARIA? Sailing to Suez, Egypt (January – March 1941)
RASC Training Unit, Base Depot, Geneifa (March – May 1941), HQ Western Desert Force, Bagush, (May – September 1941), organising transport
Supplies and Transport Unit, XIII Corps (Eighth Army), based at Hawala (September – October 1941), moving to Tobruk, Libya (December 1941), hospital (May 1942), returning to Egypt, based at GHQ Cairo (July 1942 – January 1943), moving to GHQ Financial Advisor and Army Audit Unit at 5th Base Ordnance Depot RASC at Tel el Kebir, opening the accounts office and being in charge of Egyptian civilian staff, with promotion to Staff Sergeant (January 1943 – March 1944), promotion to WOII, Staff Quarter Master Sergeant (March 1944 – June 1945), 5th BOD moving to various places, Scotland, England, Germany (June – December 1945), getting married to his wife, Joan, in Macclesfield (July 1945), moving to Finance and Army Audit Office, Belgium (January – July 1946), returning home to Macclesfield Education Office (May – August 1946), and his demob (August 1946).
History note
Cataloguer SJO