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Baines, David A T

Archive File: LIDDLE/WW2/ARMY/006

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Baines, David A T

Level: File

Classmark: LIDDLE/WW2/ARMY/006

Date(s): 1944-1945

Size and medium: photographs, film negatives, typescript paper

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/12806

Collection group(s): Liddle Collection

Description

Typescript account in diary form entitled '25/26 Medium Battery - North West Europe Campaign 1944/45' and accompanying photographs. Photographs, with accompanying negatives, depict military vehicles, soldiers (driving vehicles, fusing shells, and portraits), Normandy villages showing bomb damage, Ardennes in 1944 including photographs taken at Christmas and Germany and crossing the Rhine in 1945. Photographs are labelled on the reverse with details such as name and rank of soldiers and some details of death.

Biography or history

Baines, David A T. Lieutenant, 25th/26th Medium Battery, Royal Artillery, serving on D-Day, Normandy 1944, and in North-West Europe, 1944-1945. Later Brigadier.

Provenance

Date received: 1990 ?

The papers were placed in the Collection by DAT Baines. See Research Correspondence File.

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