scrapbook, scrapbook
Accession Number
NAM.2007-02-21-1
Description
Scrapbook belonging to Lt Col Alexander Hendrick Roosmalecocq of the Rajputana Rifles, 1930s. Contains programmes for polo matches and theatricals in pre-war India. Also contains cuttings and the text of a radio broadcast he made at the time relating to the fighting around Damascus against the Vichy French in 1941. Roosmalecocq was briefly a prisoner of the Vichy French before being exchanged following the armistice which ended the fighting in Syria. Associated with World War Two, Middle East (1940-1943).
Campaigns
World War Two, Middle East (1940-1945)
Associated collection
