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    • Wannop - On the Frontier: Lo Wu Camp
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    • Our Final Leave and Final Thoughts
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    • 880 Forward Observation Battery, RA, Airborne Territorial Army
    • The Royal Artillery Depot Woolwich - End
    • HMT Dunera, Hong Kong to Southampton
    • Korea, An Epitaph
    • Stanley Barracks Hong Kong Island
    • Ping Shan, New Territorities
    • Lo Wu, New Territories
    • Hong Kong and the New Territories
    • HMT Devonshire, A Slow Boat to China
    • The Royal Artillery Depot Woolwich - Begin
    • 192 Survey Training Battery, School of Artillery, Larkhill
    • 67 Training Regiment Royal Artillery Oswestry
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    • National Service, Notes and Comment
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    • 2 Frightening Experiences
    • Sound Ranging: Theory and Practice in Korea
    • 15 Divisional Locating Battery, Royal Artillery
    • Korea: To War
    • Korea and the Korean War
    • Entry and Training
    • Introduction
    • Interactive Memoirs - The Railway Station at Fanling
    • The Royal Artillery Band Woolwich - Moving
    • How to Write a Memoir: Creative Devices
    • Foreword - National Service Memoir

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  • John Parnell’s Story
    • Parnell – Introduction
    • Parnell – Entry and Training
    • Parnell – Korea and the Korean War
    • Parnell – Korea To War
    • Parnell – 15 Divisional Locating Battery
    • Parnell – Theory and Practice
    • Parnell – 2 Frightening Experiences
    • Parnell – Random Jottings
    • Parnell – My Troop Commanders
    • Parnell – R&R
    • Parnell – Homeward Bound
    • Parnell – Discharged
    • Parnell – Thoughts
    • Parnell – General Notes
    • Parnell – Conclusion
    • Parnell – Further Reading
    • Parnell – Addendum A 61st Light
    • Parnell – Addendum B Korean War
  • John Parnell
  • George Olmit’s Story
    • Olmit – Entry and Training
    • Olmit – 192 Training Battery Larkhill
    • Olmit – Everyday Life at Larkhill
    • Olmit – Woolwich Barracks and on to Germany
    • Olmit – Luneburg
    • Olmit – Munster
    • Olmit – Exercises Spearhead One & Two
    • Olmit – Adopted by the Munster Locals – Walter
    • Olmit – Death of King George
    • Olmit – First Class Trade Test – Beginning of the End
    • Olmit – Goodge Street Deep Shelter
    • Olmit – Our Final Leave and Final Thoughts
  • Urlan Wannop
  • Wannop – Larkhill, Salisbury Plain
  • Wannop – Park Hall Camp, Oswestry
  • Wannop – To Hong Kong on the Devonshire
  • Wannop – On the Frontier: Lo Wu Camp
  • Wannop – Lo Wu Camp Diversions – Hong Kong
  • Wannop – Kowloon the Walled City
  • Wannop – A Prelude to Demobilization
  • Wannop – Return to Southampton via Empire Fowey
  • Wannop – Demobilisation
  • Wannop – Return to Hong Kong in 1990
  • Wannop – Lo Wu 1990

Book Outline

  • Foreword
  • Part One
    • Chapter 1 – Preamble
    • Chapter 2 – 67 Training Regiment Royal Artillery Oswestry
    • Chapter 3 – 192 Survey Training Battery Royal Artillery Larkhill
    • Chapter 4 – Royal Artillery Depot Woolwich – Begin
    • Chapter 5 – MV Devonshire – A Slow Boat to China
  • Part Two
    • Chapter 6 – Hong Kong and the New Territories 1950
    • Chapter 7 – Lo Wu, New Territories
    • Chapter 8 – Ping Shan, New Territories
    • Chapter 9 – Stanley Barracks, Hong Kong Island
    • Chapter 10 – Korea, An Epitaph
  • Part Three
    • Chapter 11 – MV Dunera, A Happy Return
    • Chapter 12 – Royal Artillery Depot Woolwich – End
    • Chapter 13 – 880 Forward Observation Battery, RA (Airborne) TA
    • Chapter 14 – A Reckoning
  • Appendix

All Sections

  • Foreword – National Service Memoir
  • Preamble – National Service a Memoir
  • 67 Training Regiment Royal Artillery Oswestry
  • 192 Survey Training Battery, School of Artillery, Larkhill
  • The Royal Artillery Depot Woolwich – Begin
  • HMT Devonshire, A Slow Boat to China
  • Hong Kong and the New Territories
  • Lo Wu, New Territories
  • Ping Shan, New Territorities
  • Stanley Barracks Hong Kong Island
  • Korea, An Epitaph
  • HMT Dunera, Hong Kong to Southampton
  • The Royal Artillery Depot Woolwich – End
  • 880 Forward Observation Battery, RA, Airborne Territorial Army
  • National Service – My Reckoning
  • National Service, Notes and Comment
  • Welcome to Gunner Flann – A National Service Memoir
  • How to Write a Memoir: Creative Devices
  • The Royal Artillery Band Woolwich – Moving
  • Interactive Memoirs – The Railway Station at Fanling

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