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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelFile
Reference Number WHEELER/S/1/2
Title'Account of the Convoy Round the Cape, Oct-Nov '41'
Date1941-1943
DescriptionMS 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'.
Extent1 exercise book
AdminHistoryWheeler 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.
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe 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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