Alt_Ref_NoE1847
Ref No578-K/8/2/464
TitleArthur Thomas Tyreman (1913-2007); Private; 4757721; 7th Battalion
DescriptionRelease book; record of service card; transfer to reserve certificate; savings release form; Service and Pay Book; two letters to his sister Kate; exercise book used for Urdu vocabulary, notes on knot tying, notes of movements in 1943, transcript of presscutting 'Men only Razmak see its first ever girls', Jun 1944; exercise book with written account of journey to India via Durban, South Africa (Dec 1941-Jan 1942); pages from a notebook with written account of 2 Dec 1941-11 Feb 1942, with transcript; written account covering Tyreman being called up in Aug 1940, his training, his movements through India and Burma, and his return to England in 1945; Active Service New Testament; memo on Sten Gun Course, 21 Sep 1944; ship newsletter 9 Dec 1941 [T.S.S. Strathallan]; biography [written as information for his mourners], 4 Jun 2007.
Photographs of Tyreman, members of Battalion, friends and family, scenes of camps and places stationed, local people and architecture [as organised by the donor]: Aug 1940-Dec 1941 (places in the U.K.) twenty photographs; postcard, presscutting. 1941-1942 (the voyage to India via South Africa) seven photographs; three postcards; presscutting; drawing of T.S.S. Strathallan; drawing of Durban. 1942 (India and Burma) thirty-four photographs; presscutting; postcard to sister Kate. 1943 (India) seventeen photographs; airgraph to sister. 1944 (Razmak, Waziristan, Indian North West Frontier) eight photographs; presscutting. 1945 (Burma and demobbed) four photographs. Undated, twenty-six photographs. Photograph of Tyreman at Burma Star Reunion at Albert Hall 1950.
Date1940-2007
Extent145 items
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