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15 October 2014
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These submissions are taken from the War Memoirs of my father, H.A.B. White, who served with 11 Field Ambulance in North Africa, Italy and Austria. The Memoirs include material supplied at my father's request by others serving with 11 Field Ambulance. My father entitled the Memoirs 'Stretcher-bearers', and so 'Stretcher-bearers': prefaces the title of each of the individual pieces submitted to this archive. Numbers are given for each piece indicating where the peice occurs in the sequence of the work as a whole.

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'Stretcher-bearers': (9) Sinking of troopship Windsor Castle
'Stretcher-bearers': (2) The Beginnings with some accounts of Joining up
'Stretcher-bearers': (4) The Phoney Period - Gas!
'Stretcher-bearers': (5) Early exercises and an exam
'Stretcher-bearers': (6) First 'Medical Posting'
'Stretcher-bearers': (8) On the Move
'Stretcher-bearers': (10) Landing in North Africa and first unit casualties there, including loss of C.O.
'Stretcher-bearers': (11) Algiers and Refitting
'Stretcher-bearers': (12) Dating Agency and Transfer
'Stretcher-bearers': (13) Sicily Landing
'Stretcher-bearers': (7) Stalemate in Britain
'Stretcher-bearers': (14) The Tunnel
'Stretcher-bearers': (15) To Randazzo
'Stretcher-bearers': (17) Sicily - Accounts of D. Mackenzie and W. Laverack
'Stretcher-bearers': (!8) From Sicily to Italy - and back again, sick
'Stretcher-bearers': (19) Back to Sicily - recovery from jaundice
'Stretcher-bearers': (20) In transit
'Stretcher-bearers': (22) Return to action zone - February 19445
'Stretcher-bearers': (21) Nursing Orderly Class 1
'Stretcher-bearers': (23) A censored letter and language difficulties
'Stretcher-bearers': (25) To Cassino - March 1944
'Stretcher-bearers': (26) Inferno Gully - dealing with the wounded and dying
'Stretcher-bearers': (27) Fun and Games
'Stretcher-bearers': (28) Living in a 'bivvy'
'Stretcher-bearers': (29) Back to Cassino
'Stretcher-bearers': (30) Italian Advance
'Stretcher-bearers': (31) At Castilione del Lago
'Stretcher-bearers': (32) Egyptian Interlude
'Stretcher-bearers': (33) Back to Italy from Egypt
'Stretcher-bearers': (35) Attached to the Lancs and theRecces
'Stretcher-bearers': (36) Bomb-happy
'Stretcher-bearers': (37) Trench
'Stretcher-bearers': (38) With the East Surreys
'Stretcher-bearers': (41) Lone Trek
'Stretcher-bearers': (42) Last Lap
'Stretcher-bearers': (34) Mishaps and Misunderstandings
'Stretcher-bearers': (16) Sicilian Advance - How others fared
'Stretcher-bearers': (43) Appendix 1 - Letters Home
'Stretcher-bearers' by H.A.B. White: (1) Introduction
'Stretcher-bearers': (3) Dunkirk - Two accounts
'Stretcher-bearers': (40) Line Routine - Winter 1944
'Stretcher-bearers': (24) At Termoli, 4.10.1943
'Stretcher-bearers': (39) Camp thoughts by Jack Blockley
'Stretcher-bearers': (44) Appendix 2 - 11 Field Ambulance, Roll of Honour, 1939-45
'Stretcher-bearers': (45) Appendix 3 - 11 Field Ambulance, Decorations won

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