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Object description
A ts transcription of a detailed unpublished account of 78th Division in Italy, entitled 'Battleaxe On My Arm' (49pp) by a Captain in the Royal Engineers who had been in 78th Division, and after the war had worked as a historian to work on General Alexander's war despatches, with good details of the 78th Division's movements and battles in Italy, and occupation of Austria (October 1944 – July 1945), the component Brigades, 38th (Irish) Infantry Brigade, 11th Infantry Brigade, and the 36th Infantry Brigade, and other attached units, planning, weather, as well as anecdotes and other stories. Together with: a ts paper (4pp), 'The Mediterranean Story' about the use of War Diaries in recording information for later historical work and Commander-in-Chief's despatches, and that the information can be arbitrary or inaccurate depending on the writer's viewpoint of an event, and his personal appreciation and admiration for Field Marshal Alexander; a ts fictional, or semi-fictional, account 'Incident in Umbria' (11pp) about a British Officer and a New Zealand Officer who had escaped from an Italian POW camp living with partisans in Citta del Risveglio; 4 photographs of Monte Grande area, Apennine Mountains, Italy (18 October 1944), taken by 3131 Sig Sv Co.
Content description
A ts transcription of a detailed unpublished account of 78th Division in Italy, entitled 'Battleaxe On My Arm' (49pp) by a Captain in the Royal Engineers who had been in 78th Division, and after the war had worked as a historian to work on General Alexander's war despatches, with good details of the 78th Division's movements and battles in Italy, and occupation of Austria (October 1944 – July 1945), the component Brigades, 38th (Irish) Infantry Brigade, 11th Infantry Brigade, and the 36th Infantry Brigade, and other attached units, planning, weather, as well as anecdotes and other stories. Together with: a ts paper (4pp), 'The Mediterranean Story' about the use of War Diaries in recording information for later historical work and Commander-in-Chief's despatches, and that the information can be arbitrary or inaccurate depending on the writer's viewpoint of an event, and his personal appreciation and admiration for Field Marshal Alexander; a ts fictional, or semi-fictional, account 'Incident in Umbria' (11pp) about a British Officer and a New Zealand Officer who had escaped from an Italian POW camp living with partisans in Citta del Risveglio; 4 photographs of Monte Grande area, Apennine Mountains, Italy (18 October 1944), taken by 3131 Sig Sv Co.
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