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Leslie Wheeler was born in Devizes, Wiltshire in 1909, and in 1927
he enlisted in his local Territorial Army regiment, the Royal
Wiltshire Yeomanry. Leslie served throughout the Second World War
in the Middle East, North Africa, and Italy as a senior
non-commissioned officer and was then commissioned as quartermaster
into the regiment that he clearly loved. His honest and revealing
memoirs depict the final years of horsed cavalry in the British
Army, the wartime transition to mobile but poorly equipped desert
columns, and finally the transition to a tank regiment. The
often-overlooked 1941 campaigns in Syria, Iraq, and Persia as well
as El Alamein and the fight north through Italy are described by
the author in a typically understated fashion. What makes this tale
unique is the often amusing and sometimes cynical perspective of a
senior and experienced soldier working tirelessly in the
quartermaster’s department to keep his regiment supplied in peace
and war.
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