Roger Atkinson - Blackout, Austerity and Pride

32 1 — Keep calm and carry on
sion. They are a mixture of typing and manuscript. My father had
bought me, literally two or three days before the outbreak of war
in 1939, a Remington portable typewriter – which I still have, as
an antique relic. But in 1945, it was my most valuable personal possession.
In my final postings in the army I had it with me, but obviously
I did not risk taking it when first called-up or under training.
Turning to the Notes from the period 1945 to 1948 and that I
still have by me, they have little merit, save for their being a contemporary
record, affording a view of what one took as largely
mundane, but worthy of mention, in their 1940s context. Just a
taste of them: the two paragraphs below are from a five quartopage
typed account.
My Remington portable, taken out of its carrying case.
Note that it proclaims: “Assembled by British labour at the Remington
typewriter factory London from parts made in the U.S.A.”