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1939-1945 As I Remember Leslie C. Wheeler

1939-1945 As I Remember von Leslie C. Wheeler

1939-1945 As I Remember Leslie C. Wheeler


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Zusammenfassung

A senior non-commissioned officer in the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry describes the final years of mounted cavalry in the British Army. The regiment's campaigns in the Middle East, El Alamein, and the fight through Italy in 1944 are described by the author who is later commissioned; always working tirelessly to keep his regiment supplied in war.

1939-1945 As I Remember Zusammenfassung

1939-1945 As I Remember: The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry at War Leslie C. Wheeler

Leslie Wheeler was born in Devizes, Wiltshire in 1909, and in 1927 he enlisted in his local Territorial Army regiment, the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry. Leslie served throughout the Second World War in the Middle East, North Africa, and Italy as a senior non-commissioned officer and was then commissioned as quartermaster into the regiment that he clearly loved. His honest and revealing memoirs depict the final years of horsed cavalry in the British Army, the wartime transition to mobile but poorly equipped desert columns, and finally the transition to a tank regiment. The often-overlooked 1941 campaigns in Syria, Iraq, and Persia as well as El Alamein and the fight north through Italy are described by the author in a typically understated fashion. What makes this tale unique is the often amusing and sometimes cynical perspective of a senior and experienced soldier working tirelessly in the quartermaster's department to keep his regiment supplied in peace and war.

Über Leslie C. Wheeler

Stephen Keoghane served for twenty-two years as the regimental medical officer to the Royal Wessex Yeomanry in the UK, USA, Germany, and Afghanistan. The editor skied and played polo for his regiment, leaving regimental duty in 2016 as a Lt-Col. Stephen trained in surgery in Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. As a consultant urological surgeon in the NHS, he publishes extensively in the international scientific literature. The author writes regularly for magazines on military subjects: this is his second book with Fonthill Media. He is married and lives in rural Suffolk.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword; Editor's Preface; Author's Preface; 1: Preparing for War; 2: Towards Port Q; 3: Searchlights and Mechanisation; 4: Life in the Iraq Desert; 5: The Vichy French Attack; 6: I Meet the Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General (DAQMG); 7: The Invasion of Persia; 8: Lost in the Sand; 9: Egypt and Armour; 10: A Move to Stop Rommel; 11: El Alamein; 12: Sidi Bishr Rest Camp; 13: My Commission Arrives and Training Continues; 14: The Regiment Arrives in Italy; 15: The Colonel Runs Short of Vino; 16: News of Our Return to England; Postscript; Epilogue; Appendix I: Maps; Appendix II: The Structure of an Armoured Regiment; Appendix III: The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Order of Battle; Endnotes; Bibliography.

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GOR013566580
9781781558652
1781558655
1939-1945 As I Remember: The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry at War Leslie C. Wheeler
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Fonthill Media Ltd
2021-12-09
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