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The Battery Diary records the following for 1 November 1939:
Villers-Marmery
1/11/1939 0800 JUVIGNY 3 guns ready for action. Ammunition on site 400 rounds HE, 50 shrapnel.
AUBERIVE 4 guns ready for action. Ammunition on site 400 rounds HE, 50 shrapnel.
Straw shelters being erected as temporary shelters for the manning section pending completion of dug outs etc.
Also on this day frank was issued with a formal authority to act as Postal Orderly for the 157th HAA Battery. The document, signed by the Commanding Officer of the Battery, Major Jim Chivers RA said:
To whom it may concern. The bearer of this authority No. 881937 Gunner Faulkner F. A. is authoried to collect mail and generally to fulfill the duties of Postal Orderly for this Battery.
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