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MS 999 03 01 04

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MS 999 03 01 04

Title

Papers of Ion Melville Calvocoressi: Post-war papers relating to WWII commemoration events, publications and interviews: Audio interview

Level

Item

Date

2000

Extent & medium

1 item

Content description

Compact disc containing copy of two audio oral history interviews with Ion Calvocoressi by David Talbot for The Second World War Experience Centre at Leeds: Tape 1520 [1 hr 20], 8 July 2000 and Tape 1551 [45m], 29 July 2000. Includes his family background, schools and his World War II service, from enlistment 1940, commissioning into Scots Guards, the Blitz, service in North Africa, capture and escape; ADC to General Oliver Leese during Western Desert and North Africa campaigns, invasion of Sicily, Italian campaign and finally to India with Allied Land Forces South East Asia
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