Collection: SHUTE G J M (MAJOR)

One photograph album covering the service of Major Gordon Joseph Martin Shute in the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) with 'E' Company, 5th (West Africa) Auxiliary Group, attached to 2nd Battalion Nigeria Regiment (1st (West Africa) Infantry Brigade, 82nd (West Africa) Division), showing scenes in West Africa, India, and Burma 1944 to 1946. The content of the collection primarily covers the unit in Burma, including Dakota drops over Tanlwe Chaung, 1945, underground radio operators including an African radio operator, crossing the Lemro and Kalapanzin rivers, 1945, withdrawing, May 1945, and VJ celebrations in Kyaukmaungnama, August 1945. The collection also includes formal portraits of Shute, photographs related to Shute in a hospital in Chas, India, 1944, informal individual and group portraits of members of the unit, and scenes of the local populations, unit sports meetings, and tourist scenes. See also Documents.24575.