The following paper by Ken Anderson came to me in the National Meteorological Library in 1993. It contains the only known record of met men involved directly in the real war, in Mr Anderson's case the war in central and western Belgium and the Nord-Pas-De-Calais in May 1940. The style is rather cryptic, being based largely on notes from a war diary of the artillery unit to which they were attached. It was also rather long for a Weather article at that time, so it was relegated to a "look at again sometime" envelope and duly "lost". I found it again in 2004 and after scanning it, my wife and I did a little sub-editing to make it easier to read. I also added some of the pictures sent by the author. (From Introduction)
...MoreDescription The wartime diary of meteorologist Ken Anderson documenting is services during 1940.
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