Collection JOWETT - JOWETT, Col Sgt George (1921-2004)

Key Information

Reference code

JOWETT

Title

JOWETT, Col Sgt George (1921-2004)

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, Northern Ireland and Liverpool, England; selection for Special Service as a Commando; training at the Commando Basic Training Centre, Achnacarry, 1942; D-Day preparations with 6 Commando, May 1944; D-Day landings and subsequent action, Normandy, June 1944; evacuation after being wounded and recovery in Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Gloret Auxiliary hospital, June-July 1944; return to service in Ostend, Jan 1945; serious injury while on patrol, Feb 14 1945; treatment and physical therapy in Lille, France; posting in Veroa, Greece, Famagusta, Cyprus and Tobruk with the King's Own Royal Border Regiment after the disbanding of the Commandos, 1946-1947; demobilisation, 1947. Also typescript memoir 'D Day: before and after', account of the Normandy landings June 1944 excerpted from 'My Long Journey'.

System of arrangement

1 file as above.

General Information

Name of creator

(1921-2004)

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 Quartermaster Sergeant, 1946; Colour Sergeant, 1946; demobilised, 1947, died 2004.

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

Script of material

Finding aids

This collection level description.

Related materials

An account of the same D-Day operations by Cliff Morris, George Jowett's friend and fellow member of 3 Troop, 6 Commando, is located in the Derek Mill-Roberts papers at the LHCMA.

Related descriptions

Alternative identifier(s)

Genre access points

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

Script(s)

Archivist's note

Entry compiled by Katharine Higgon

Accession area