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City Boys at War: The Lloyd's Battery 1938-1940: A Gunner's Perspective

City Boys at War: The Lloyd's Battery 1938-1940: A Gunner's Perspective

Ledger, Peter

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ISBN10: 191160483X
ISBN13: 9781911604839
Publisher: Uniform Press
Published: Mar 15 2019
Pages: 144
Weight: 2.30
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.70 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
In 1938, Alfred Ledger joined the Lloyd's Battery of the 53rd (City of London) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, a division of the Territorial Army that was based at White City. Called up to serve in August 1939, he found himself involved in one of the most dramatic operations of the whole war: Operation Ariel, the organized rescue of allied troops and civilians from ports in Brittany and western France as the German army closed in. Nearly as extensive an operation as the more famous evacuation from Dunkirk, Ariel was remarkably successful, saving lives and British military capacity for the rest of the fight.

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