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A personal account of a career soldier, his early life in the 1920's in a rural working-class family, orphaned at 13 years of age and enlistment into boy-service of the British Army one year later. Sent to India at 15 years of age, narrating an insight into military life in Pre-Independence India. An individual perception of the military pre-war years in India and Burma and his experiences during the war with the great retreat from Burma by a fragmented battalion. Post war military life and steady progression in rank and responsibility through to his retirement at 55 years in 1972. He passed away at 99 years and was buried in Stillingfleet, the Yorkshire village where he was born.

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Author:   Major Frederick Lloyd Price MBE
Publisher:   Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.838kg
ISBN:  

9781839754890

ISBN 10:   1839754893
Pages:   378
Publication Date:   01 July 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Family life and boyhood in Yorkshire 1 Chapter 2 Enlistment aged 14 years - 1931 27 Chapter 3 My first journey in a troop train 55 Bombay to Agra Agra to Chaubattia 1932 68 Chapter 4 Agra - Chaubattia 1934 102 Chapter 5 Agra to Burma - 1936 119 Chapter 6 Mingaladon - 1937 130 Chapter 7 Six months leave - March 1938 134 Chapter 8 Journey back to England 143 Chapter 9 England April-November 1938 147 Chapter 10 The Battalion goes to War 159 Chapter 11 Post war Royal Army Service Corps 256 Chapter 12 Aldershot 1946-1953 263 Chapter 13 Malta April 1953-September 1954 278 Chapter 14 Singapore 286 Chapter 15 Singapore September 1954-June 1956 290 Chapter 16 The War Office June 1956-January 1962 296 Chapter 17 Taunton February 1962-October 1965 301 Chapter 18 Reorganisation RASC to RAOC 309 Chapter 19 To Singapore by RAF Charter October 1965 312 Chapter 20 The Final Challenge - London District 323

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