NAM.2003-02-331-1

Typescript autobiographical memoir by L/Cpl Adrian Tennant Cooper, 1947-1949. Memoir relates to L/Cpl Cooper's National Service with the Royal Engineers, British Army of the Rhine. Memoir provides details of the daily routine for British troops, the hardships of post-war life for the German population and anecdotes from his time working as a military escort for touring theatre companies. Cooper served in Germany with the Combined Services Entertainments Unit touring British camps in occupied Germany, resulting in his promotion to lance corporal. Associated with The Verne Citadel, Portland Bill, Portland, Dorset, Hamburg, Germany, and Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp, Belsen, Lower Saxony, Germany.

British Army of the Rhine (1945-2008)