- PENNEY 12/19
- Item
- [1944 Feb]
Typescript account by Forward Observation Officer with 2/6 Queen's Royal Reg, 169 Infantry Bde, describing German counter-attack on the 1 Infantry Div sector of the Anzio bridgehead, Italy, February 1944. 1p.
Typescript account by Forward Observation Officer with 2/6 Queen's Royal Reg, 169 Infantry Bde, describing German counter-attack on the 1 Infantry Div sector of the Anzio bridgehead, Italy, February 1944. 1p.
Typescript narrative by General Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson summarising his time as Commander, 1 Infantry Div, 12 Jun 1940 to May 1941 in UK, and Mar to May 1943 in North Africa. 1p.
Typescript [by Penney], narrating advance of Allied forces through North Africa and into the Mediterranean, 13 May 1943 to 3 Feb 1944, including details on the Allied forces advance through Sicily, Italy, the Allied landings at Anzio, Italy. 15pp.
Account by Penney, 'Moves to and in Middle East and North Africa', 1943
Typescript narrative by Penney, 'Moves to and in Middle East and North Africa', describing the advance of the Allied Forces through North Africa. 5pp.
Account of operations by 2/2 Battalion The Middlesex Regiment, Anzio, 22 Jan - May 1944
Typescript narrative, describing the role in the Allied landings at Anzio, Italy, of 2/7 Bn The Middlesex Regt, 22 Jan 1944-May 1944. 9pp.
Allied forces newspaper, The Wadi Gazette, issue number 2, 14 Apr 1944
Allied newspaper The Wadi Gazette, 14 April 1944, No 2, produced after Allied landings at Anzio, Italy. 4pp.
Article, 'Our bitter days at Anzio', by US Major General Ernest Harmon and Milton MacKaye, 1948
Article by Maj Gen Ernest N Harmon, Commander, 1 US Armoured Div, and Milton MacKaye entitled 'Our Bitter days at Anzio', for The Saturday Evening Post (USA), describing the Allied landings at Anzio, Italy, the German counter-offensive, and the Allied breakout from the Anzio beach-head. 15pp
Battle casualty statistics of 1 Infantry Division and attached troops, 23 Jan to 6 Jun 1944'
Typescript entitled, 'Battle casualty statistics of 1 Infantry Div and attached troops, 23 Jan 1944 to 6 Jun 1944', by Assistant Quartermaster's Branch. 9pp.
Extract from Corelli Barnett, Desert Generals, (Kimber, London, 1960), p308, relating to the removal of Col Eric Dorman-Smith from his command of 3 Infantry Bde, 1 Infantry Div. 1p.
Typescript extracts from Rt Hon Winston Spencer Leonard Churchill, Prime Minister, The Second World War: Volume 5, Closing the Ring (Cassell, London, 1952), Nov 1943-8 Jan 1944, and relating to the planning of the Allied landings at Anzio, Italy. 5pp.
Copy formal surrender document, 12 Sep 1945
Photographed copy of instrument of surrender of Japanese forces, signed by Japanese FM Count Hisachi Terauchi and Adm Lord Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten. 1p.
Copy letter from Penney to Shirley Penney, 10 Apr 1945, on personal matters
Photograph of letter from Penney to Mrs Shirley Mary Penney, from Washington, USA, discussing personal matters. 1p.
Correspondence and related papers, 1945-1950, concerning the Allied landings at Anzio, Italy 1944
Correspondence with Wynford Vaughan Thomas, 1961-1962, about his book, Anzio (1961)
Correspondence with Penney concerning Anzio by Wynford Vaughan Thomas (Longmans, London, 1961). 12pp.
Correspondence, 1958-1962, relating to Anzio, by Wynford Vaughan Thomas, 1961
Cover of a programme for a Victory Parade in Rangoon, 15 Jun 1945
Front cover of 'Rangoon victory parade programme'. 2pp.
Critical report on Colonel Eric Dorman-Smith by Penney, Jul 1944
Typescript report by Penney on Col (temporary Brig) Eric Dorman-Smith, relating to events from Dorman-Smith's appointment to command 3 Infantry Bde, April 1944 to departure of Penney 24 Jul 1944, reporting from officers serving in 3 Infantry Bde that Dorman-Smith acted with a lack of direction at the battle of Ardea, near Anzio, Italy, and concluding that Dorman-Smith should be relieved of his command and given staff employment. 2pp.
Diagram, Sep 1946, of cable locations in 1 Infantry Division sector around Anzio, Mar 1944
Diagram, 'Main cable arteries - 1 Div sector, March 1944'. 1p.
Typescript diary by Penney, including description of Battle of Kasserine Pass, Tunisia, 14-22 Feb 1943, aftermath of Battle of Tunisia, 3-13 May 1943, an account of Allied Forces Headquarters Algiers under US Gen Dwight David Eisenhower; and reflections on differences between American and British signals procedures. 104pp.