Alexander Giles' wartime service memories

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posted on 2024-06-24, 16:05 authored by Their Finest Hour Project Team

<p dir="ltr">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.<br> Alexander Giles was in the 52nd Mountain Reconnaissance Regiment and landed at Arromances on 08.06.44 D-Day +2</p>

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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

Person who shared the story/items

Elizabeth Wooldridge

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Father

Type of submission

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

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117689 | YOR014

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CC BY 4.0