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Photocopy of a transcription of an interview conducted with Sir Edward Ford by Andrew Duncan in 2003, covering his service with the Grenadier Guards, including his first experiences as an officer at Wellington Barracks, discipline, dress, field training at Pirbright, embarkation for France (September 1939), details of patrols, action on the front line, embarkation from Dunkirk, home duties manning coastal defences in Yorkshire, intelligence training and further training with 24th Guards Brigade, defence of the East Anglian coast, passing out from Staff College as Brigade Major to 10th Brigade, 4th Division, embarkation to Algiers and participation in the battle for Tunis, posting as Brigade Major to 24th Guards Brigade and landing in Italy at Anzio (January - March 1944), and role as instructor at Haifa Joint Staff College. From the Regimental Archive of the Grenadier Guards.

Dunkirk, Evacuation, 1940 (World War Two, North West Europe 1939-1940), Anzio Landings, 1944 (World War Two, Italy 1943-1945)