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- 1882-2019 (Creation)
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2 oral history audio recordings, 67 digital surrogates of photographic paper, 3 born-digital photographs, 37 digital surrogates of ephemera.
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Accession number: 2019-29
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Theme: Experiencing war - survival, shelter and food. Henry Louis Gatt was born on the 20th of January 1923 in Valletta. He had 5 brothers and 8 sisters. His mother was a housewife while his father was Brigadier Alfred J. Gatt, a career army officer who had been posted to Gallipoli during the First World War where he was awarded the Military Cross. During the Second World War, he had been made Commander of Fixed Defences. Between 1940 and 1970 Henry was a Royal Malta Artillery (RMA) officer and was stationed in Malta, Palestine, the UK and Germany. He retired with the rank of Major. He had two children: a boy and a girl.
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Henry Louis Gatt's wartime service record can be found at the National Archives of Malta: NAM_MIL_COLL. 2_10850.
CSG file related to Brigadier Alfred Joseph Gatt's retired pay: CSG 01, 2857/1942.