F W Hammond

Fragmentary reminiscences (18pp, written May 1971) relating to his service in the ranks of the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry also known as the Sherwood Rangers (5th Cavalry Brigade) in Palestine, January 1940 - ?July 1941, and with the Military Police in the Sudan, January 1943; and, including: the voyage from Lincolnshire to Haifa, Palestine in January 1940; active service in Palestine, participating in mounted patrols and guarding the oil pipe lines, January 1940 - ?November 1940, notably enforcing the curfew in Tel Aviv with a cavalry charge; on coastal defence duties with 'A' Battery, Sherwood Rangers during the siege of Tobruk, ? February 1941 - ?July 1941, and the evacuation from Tobruk in a Norwegian whaling vessel, ?July 1941; and a journey along the Nile from Wadi Halfa, January 1943. Also included are miscellaneous papers mainly relating to his service with the Military Police in the Sudan, July 1941 - 1945, notably his Territorial Army enlistment papers (May 1938); his Military Police identity card (July 1941); a Sudan Almanac (1941 edition); programmes and pictures of various sporting events in the Sudan (1941 - 1942); bills and accounts (February 1943 - March 1943); a souvenir programme, Sudan (January 1944); and a Khartoum War Memorial appeal pamphlet (1945).

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