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Object description
Self published memoir (167pp including introduction and illustrations, written 2014), covering his life and military service including growing up in Middlesex, schooling at Highgate School (1935–1941), including a bit part in the film 'Goodbye Mr Chips' (1939), the evacuation of his school to Devon, being unable to join the RAF due to colour blindness, joining the Home Guard (1941) and learning to use an anti-tank gun, details of the men in his section, his sister, Heather, joining the SOE, being called up to the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers in Chester for training (July 1942), joining the Middlesex Regiment at Hounslow (August 1942), promotion to acting Lance Corporal, anecdotes of guard duty, volunteering for the Parachute Regiment but instead attending 164th OCTU, Barmouth (June 1943), commissioning as a 2nd Lieutenant and being selected for 10th Gurkha Rifles (December 1943), troopship to India (January 1944), 10th Gurkha Rifles Regimental Centre (February 1944), 4th Battalion 10th Gurkha Rifles, Burma (August 1944), 4th Battalion 10th Gurkha Rifles, Indo-China (October 1945), returning to India (April 1946), home Leave (July 1946), 4/10th GR, Bihar (September 1946), 4/10th GR disbanded in Alhilal (February 1947), joining 1st Battalion 10th GR at Rangoon, and passing the Amritsar riots (March 1947), 1st Bn GR, Burma (April 1947), returning home (January 1948), joining 11th Battalion Parachute Regiment TA (1948), getting married to Marcia (1950), 11th Bn PR becomes 8th Battalion Middlesex Regiment (1957), 7th, 8th, 9th Battalions amalgamate to become 5th Battalion (1961), taking command of 5th Middlesex Regiment (1962), relinquishing command of 5th Bn and TA service ending (1965), getting married to Valerie (1992), with details of his later life and charity work including for Gurkha Welfare Trust, St John's Ambulance, and Army Benevolent Fund.
Content description
Self published memoir (167pp including introduction and illustrations, written 2014), covering his life and military service including growing up in Middlesex, schooling at Highgate School (1935–1941), including a bit part in the film 'Goodbye Mr Chips' (1939), the evacuation of his school to Devon, being unable to join the RAF due to colour blindness, joining the Home Guard (1941) and learning to use an anti-tank gun, details of the men in his section, his sister, Heather, joining the SOE, being called up to the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers in Chester for training (July 1942), joining the Middlesex Regiment at Hounslow (August 1942), promotion to acting Lance Corporal, anecdotes of guard duty, volunteering for the Parachute Regiment but instead attending 164th OCTU, Barmouth (June 1943), commissioning as a 2nd Lieutenant and being selected for 10th Gurkha Rifles (December 1943), troopship to India (January 1944), 10th Gurkha Rifles Regimental Centre (February 1944), 4th Battalion 10th Gurkha Rifles, Burma (August 1944), 4th Battalion 10th Gurkha Rifles, Indo-China (October 1945), returning to India (April 1946), home Leave (July 1946), 4/10th GR, Bihar (September 1946), 4/10th GR disbanded in Alhilal (February 1947), joining 1st Battalion 10th GR at Rangoon, and passing the Amritsar riots (March 1947), 1st Bn GR, Burma (April 1947), returning home (January 1948), joining 11th Battalion Parachute Regiment TA (1948), getting married to Marcia (1950), 11th Bn PR becomes 8th Battalion Middlesex Regiment (1957), 7th, 8th, 9th Battalions amalgamate to become 5th Battalion (1961), taking command of 5th Middlesex Regiment (1962), relinquishing command of 5th Bn and TA service ending (1965), getting married to Valerie (1992), with details of his later life and charity work including for Gurkha Welfare Trust, St John's Ambulance, and Army Benevolent Fund.
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Cataloguer SJO