Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- c 2000-2004 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file or 0.01m3
Scope and content
My long journey: a true story of World War II as seen through the eyes of a former commando soldier , typescript memoir by Colour Sergeant George 'The Joker' Jowett, including descriptions of training with King's Own Royal Border Regiment in Armagh, ... »
System of arrangement
1 file as above.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born Oldham, Lancashire, 1922; worked as a coal miner, joined King's Own Royal Border Regiment; volunteered for Special Service; served with Troop 3, No 6 Commando, Normandy, 1944-1945; returned to King's Own Royal Border Regiment, Nov 1945; Company ... »
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by George Jowett in 2004.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Related materials
Subjects
- Wars (events)
- Armed forces
- Higher science education
- International conflicts
- Medical sciences
- Military education
- Military engineering
- Military medicine
- Military operations
- Military organizations
- Operation Overlord (1944)
- Organizations
- Special forces
- State security
- War
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
Place access points
People and Organisations
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.
Archivist's note
Entry compiled by Katharine Higgon