NAM.1992-03-166-2

Second of three sound cassettes: oral history interview with Maj Richard R Tewson, Artists Rifles, Auxiliary Force India and Royal Artillery, 1934-1950. Tewson's first military service was as a private in the 28th Bn London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) which he joined in 1934. He left in April 1937 when he went to India to work on tea estates, and joined the Munnar Troop of the Southern Provinces Mounted Rifles AF(I), attending all of their mounted parades until September 1939. In Jan 1940 he went to OCTU at Belgaum, proceeding from there to the school of Artillery at Kakul in March. In June 1940 he was commissioned and joined 27 Mountain Battery at Dehra Dun, He served in Aden and East Africa, joining 26 Mtn Regiment at Megiddo (Palestine) Jul 1941 when he was appointed Acting Captain and Adjutant. In 1942 he served on the North West Frontier in the operations against the Faqir of Ipi. In the August he joined 4th Indian Field Regiment and begun training for warfarein Burma, which eventually began in June 1944 by which time he had become a Major. In 1945 he toured East Anglia and North America lecturing about the war in Burma. In July 1945 he was with 459 Bty 81 Field Regiment in Germany, and he returned to India in August. Interviewed by Dr Peter Boyden and Maj Alan Harfield, 22 January 1992.

World War Two, East Africa (1940-1941), World War Two, Middle East (1940-1945), World War Two, Far East (1941-1945)