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| Place | Date | Hour | Summary of Events and Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| THE CLYDE | 4 Jan 44 | Dropped anchor in GOUROCK in the morning and informed there would be no disembarkation today. Weather cold and snow on the hills round about. | |
| " | 5 | Disembarkation orders received, and deck spaces etc organised and allotted for disembarkation. | |
| 6 | Regt disembarked from SS ORMONDE at Princes Pier GOUROCK at about 1100 hrs. Thence by special train to WYMONDHAM, Norfolk, having adequate supplies of tea and refrreshments | ||
| en route supplied by NAAFI at a halt. | |||
| WYMONDHAM | 7 | Arrived WYMONDHAM about 0530 hrs and were met at station by CO2 who has been arranging things for us with a small advance party in England for about a month. | |
| We are to take over billets etc and learn the adm technique from a rear party left behind by 92nd (Gordons) A tk Regt RA. | |||
| Locations - RHQ, 257 and 260 Bties - Kimberley Hall, Nr Wymondham. 258 Bty - Attleborough. | |||
| 259 Bty - Wymondham. | |||
| 8,9, 10, & 11 Jan 44 | These 4 days spent in sorting out the complicated adm proceedings connected with soldiering in this country. Many Army Forms and innumerable regulations to which | ||
| we are not accustomed are learnt with the invaluable aid of the Gordons rear party, of whom at least one Officer is attached to each billet area. Special trains to | |||
| various parts of the country are laid on for transporting people on leave, and this, with passes, railway warrants, coupons of various sorts, and so on, entails considerable | |||
| thought and preparation. The system on which leave is to run is for all personnel entitled to 3 weeks leave (i.e. having served abroad between 2 and 4 years) and 1/2 | |||
| people entitled to 2 weeks leave (abroad less than 2 years) to go within the next 3 days. On the return a fortnight hence of these 2 week men, the other 1/2 will go. | |||
| KIMBERLEY HALL | 24 Jan 44 | Adjutant returned from leave. | |
| " | 25 | CO returned from leave. CO2 went to short "Bridging" demonstration at Ilkley. | |
| " | 25/30 | This period was spent in adm work and laying a foundation for future training. This latter includes arranging large numbers of courses for Officers and men, preparation | |
| of rooms in billets for lecture rooms, miniature ranges on the sand-table style, and so on. A few welfare items such as footballs and boxing gloves were obtained. |
| Place | Date | Hour | Summary of Events and Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIMBERLEY HALL | 26 Jan 44 | The Div Comd visited the Regt and looked round the whole area occupied by the Regt. He expressed satisfaction with RHQ area, except for the question of hard standings | |
| for vehicles. Arrangements are made with the Garrison Engineer for these. | |||
| " | 29 Jan 44 | A telegram received that the Lt QM is very ill and in hospital, and unable to return from leave on Monday. This is very worrying as the Q side of the adm becomes | |
| increasingly important and proportionally busy day by day. The Regt was invited to send between 50 and 60 ORs to a dance run by the WVS at | |||
| Barnham Broom village hall. This is the first invitation to a social function which the Regt has received, and was enjoyed by all when initial shyness had been | |||
| dispelled. The local population are as pleased to have their own Regt back in the county, as the Regt is fortunate in its location. |
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