posted on 2024-06-24, 16:05authored byTheir Finest Hour Project Team
The contributor has brought along a typed account of her father's wartime memories as dictated by her father. the account is uploaded as images 6a, 6b and 6c. Alexander Giles was in the 52nd Mountain Reconnaissance Regiment and landed at Arromances on 08.06.44 D-Day +2
History
Item list and details
1 - 3 pages from Alexander Giles scrapbook/photograph album
4 group photograph of Alexander and other soldiers
5 photograph of Alexander standing next to a jeep
6 - first person typed account of Alexander's memories of his wartime service
7- a route map showing the route taken by the 52nd Lowland Reconnaissance
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Alexander Giles
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Elizabeth Wooldridge
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