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F M Campbell

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Title: F M Campbell
Date: 1973-1974
Description: Ts and ms account (54pp) of his service with the Royal Corps of Signals, December 1941 - December 1946, including: training at Catterick, turning down the offer of a commission, December 1941 - ?June 1942; service as a linesman/operator with 12th Corps Signals in the Home Counties and Scotland; 1942 - ?1944; as a signalman attached to 1st Corps Signals in North West Europe, June 1944 - June 1945, landing on Sword Beach on 6 June 1944 and advancing through France, Belgium, Holland, and across the Rhine; and in the Far East, serving with the 14th Army in Burma, at the Signals Depot at Mhow in India, and the 7th Indian Division in Malaya, June 1945 - September 1946, when he was repatriated prior to demobilisation in December 1946; and commenting on the preparations for D-Day; collaboration; the black market; shortages of food; his attitude towards Germans; anti-fraternisation orders, and his reactions to his army service.
Held by: Imperial War Museum Department of Documents
Language: English
Creator(s): <persname>Campbell, Finlay M, b 1923</persname>
Access conditions: Unrestricted "for reading purposes only" (no photocopies).
Physical condition: Original documents
Record URL: https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/25a871d5-fbbc-40b2-925a-bd3483351a88/