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Albert remained with this unit for all his war-time service, later going to the shetland islands when the 7th kosb were part of osdef (orkney and shetlands defence force)new signed paperback copy of wwii diary of a red devil - by glider to arnhem with the 7th kings own scottish borderers - author: albert blockwell, edited by maggie clifton - unique personal account of the formation of britain's airborne forces and their epic actions during operation market gardenthis book relates to the war time experiences of a young man, albert blockwell from the north-east of england, who in february was called up for service with the armythen in late much to their surprise the unit was posted to lincolnshire to become the third infantry unit in the 1st airlanding brigade then in the process of returning from italy with the rest of the 1st airborne divisionplease contact me for further detailsindividual accounts are certainly in a minority and those from the lower ranks are even more scarceswapping their glengarries for red berets albert and his comrades had to adapt to their new way of getting to war by glidertaken prisoner on the last day his account then describes the spartan life in pow camp without pulling any punchesthe battle of arnhemthe diary continues with a down to earth account of the highs and lows of the next few monthsfeatures a large number of rare photographs and documents - this version is now out of printhis diary is a most interesting account of a young vehicle mechanic who also had to learn to be a infantry soldierthen in september albert flew to holland on operation market-garden and his account (written in pow camp) describes the savage nine days fighting at arnhem from the slit trench levelinitially conscripted into the royal army ordnance corps and trained as a vehicle mechanic, he was then posted in march to a pre-war territorial unit - the 7th kings own scottish borderers, then a home defence unit based near londonsadly albert died in but his diary survived and his daughter maggie clifton has edited a unique account of the fighting at arnhem from the frontline soldier's perspectivei also have a signed hardback version of this book, along with another account of the battle of arnhem for sale, a bridge too far by cornelius ryanthe copy is personally signed by the authors daughter, editor maggie clifton many books have been written about the second world war and the majority of them either concentrate on a particular battle, campaign or unit
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