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Alexander Giles' wartime service memories

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posted on 2024-06-24, 16:05 authored by Their 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

Person the story/items relate to

Alexander Giles

Person who shared the story/items

Elizabeth Wooldridge

Relationship between the subject of the story and its contributor

Father

Type of submission

Shared at York Army Museum, York on 5 June 2023.

Record ID

117689 | YOR014