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Image shows book cover for The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 1939-1945 by Major E. G. Godrey M.C. The cover is red with green and grey stripes down a centre box on top of which is the cap badge of the DCLI, a bugle horn with a crown above and Cornwall banner between.

1939-45 DCLI History Book

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Discover the role played by the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (DCLI)during the Second World War, which saw the 1st Battalion serving in Africa, the 2nd Battalion serving with the British Expeditionary Force and being evacuated from Dunkirk, and the 5th Battalion, who were integral to the advance on North West Europe and the push in to Germany, not forgetting the 30th Battalion, Pioneers, who were crucial to the success of campaigns, many of whom were Cornish miners using their skills for a new purposes.

Authored by Gordon Godfrey, having served with the City of London Regiment in the First World War, he was commissioned in to the DCLI in 1940, rising to the rank of Major, and being involved in map making for the Second Front.