
- 168 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Richard Hughes was an artillery officer with the British Army in World War II. He was sent to Europe twice. The first assignment in 1940 was short lived, as he joined the hopelessly ill equipped and overwhelmed Allied forces in France. The superior German army pushed them back to the English Channel at Dunkirk, and Hughes was one of some 300, 000 troops miraculously rescued from the beach by a flotilla of small boats.In 1944 he returned to France as apart of the Allied invasion, this time as a Major commanding a battery of field guns. The contrast is apparent. Now they were a well equipped, superbly trained and coldly efficient force. With his field battery and associated infantry battalion, Hughes fought numerous battles right through Europe to reach Hamburg, at the final surrender of Germany in May, 1945.In Sheldrake, Richard Hughes recalls many fascinating memories in his personal account of those traumatic years.
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Table of contents
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One A Fortnight in France
- Part Two The Second Front
- Appendix 1 Military Cross and the King’s Letter
- Appendix 2 Mention in Despatches
- Appendix 3 497 Field Battery, Royal Artillery
- Appendix 4 25 Pounder Field Gun
- Glossary 1 Explanation of Selected Terms
- Glossary 2 Divisional Infantry and Artillery
- Glossary 3 53rd Welsh Division – Order of Battle, 1944/1945