NAM.1974-12-30-1

Five bound manuscript notebooks, 1926 to 1950. Contain the journal of Col J L Maxwell. He was at the Royal Military College, Camberley, 1926-1927. He joined the Royal Scots Fusiliers in October 1927. Served in England up to March 1932 and in Egypt and Palestine until July 1936. Between July 1936 and March 1944 he was attached to the Sudan Defence Force and saw action in Abyssinia and the Western Desert. Rejoining his regiment he fought in Italy and Germany, being employed on the Staff in Scotland from July 1947.

World War Two (1939-1945), World War Two, North Africa (1940-1945), World War Two, Italy (1943-1945), British Army of the Rhine (1945-2008)