Description | Four sets of information provided by former Sniper Sergeant Harry Furness in his correspondence with Don Scott. Includes sections describing the significance of the Battalion's combined shoulder patch and title, sweetheart brooches, trading cigarettes for better quality ammunition, battlefield humour, luxuriously furnished German firing trenches, the role of Sniper Specialists, the relaxation of uniform regulations during duties in the Occupation Army, Furness' training, service history and injuries, a sniping incident in Normandy 1944, notes on material submitted for Sniper decoy chapter in 'Death from Afar, volume 5' and copy of that chapter as published in the U.S.A. entitled 'The Sucker Shot'. |