Record

StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	File
Reference Number	WHEELER/S/1/2
Title	'Account of the Convoy Round the Cape, Oct-Nov '41'
Date	1941-1943
Description	MS draft version of extracts of Wheeler's diary while sailing from Britain to his overseas army posting in north Africa, 1941. This account became known as 'The Hour of Fury: A Diary'.
Extent	1 exercise book
AdminHistory	Wheeler spent the early years of the Second World War in Britain and in north Africa, raising and training the 48th light anti-aircraft battery which swelled into the 42nd Royal Artillery regiment.
AccessStatus	Open
AccessConditions	The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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