DeptName
Documents

IDNO
1062

OtherNumber
91/6/1

ItemName
Private Papers of M Coigley

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Notebook containing pithy but striking ms notes (43pp) kept by him in May 1945 while serving as a Red Cross volunteer (a medical student of St Thomas' Hospital) in the operation to relieve Belsen concentration camp, giving brief details on patients he attended there, including short background history (especially their earlier camps and suffering), their physical state, symptoms, diagnoses, treatment and, where relevant, cause of death; together with a ts letter (2pp) written from Belsen, 5 May 1945, giving good descriptions of how he came to be working there, the history of the camp as he learned it, conditions there, the work, makeshift medicine and treatment; his ms/ts/cyclostyled case notes and post mortem reports (33pp) on Belsen victims; patient registration forms; and cyclostyled notes on the treatment of starvation (3pp, 3 April 1945) issued by 21st Army Group.

MakerName
Coigley

Forenames
M

Honours
MB BS MRCS LRCP FRCGP

Style
Dr

RelatedImageFile
CoigleyM_001062_2.jpg

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
Death

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
19/09/2006 05:50:09

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

IndexPlace
London, England, UK
Belsen, Lower Saxony, Germany

IndexPlaceDetail
St Thomas' Hospital, London

IndexEvent
Liberation of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp 1945, Holocaust, Germany, Second World War

PDF
CoigleyM_001062_2.pdf

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
2482

OtherNumber
Con Shelf & P114/2

ItemName
Private Papers of Edith Cavell

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Extensive collection of papers relating to her work as director of a school for trainee nurses in Brussels before and during the First World War, her involvement with the sheltering of British soldiers at the school during 1915 following the Battle of Mons, her contacts with members of the 'resistance' in German-occupied Belgium, and her trial and execution by the Germans in 1915, comprising: fragments of her 1915 diary, circa 25 ms letters written by her between 1911 and 1915 together with other papers in her hand, private and official correspondence concerning her arrest, imprisonment and execution, together with a considerable quantity of post-1918 material concerning the funeral services held in London and Norwich, the various memorials to her, the establishment of the Edith Cavell Homes for Nurses, and the acquisition by the Imperial War Museum of artefacts and documents pertaining to her.

MakerName
Cavell

Forenames
Edith

RelatedIWMItems
See full catalogue

RelatedTextFile
cavell.doc

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
Death

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
3426

OtherNumber
Misc 183 (2763) & 2763A

ObjectType
Miscellaneous Documents

ShortSummary
Miscellaneous papers relating to the occupation of the Channel Islands by German forces (June 1940 - May 1945), including ration books, Red Cross messages, permits, orders, and other official forms governing daily life for the islanders, and notably a ts account giving the German version of the occupation of the islands (June 1941), a ts summary of the resources available in the islands under siege conditions (September 1944), a German description of the islands' fortifications, maps showing German plans for a military railway on Guernsey, a copy of the King's message to the Bailiffs of Jersey and Guernsey (June 1940), notices of the May 1942 traffic order, the prohibition of the demonstration of applause or displeasure in cinemas (1940), and the execution of a civilian for sending a message by pigeon to England (August 1941), several copies of Channel Islands' newspapers (1941 -1945) and a 'missing' poster circulated by the German authorities advertising their search for a German soldier.

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
Death

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
5426

OtherNumber
96/26/1

ItemName
Private Papers of H Spier

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Ts translation from the German (6pp) of a memoir, written for her family some time after the events described, concerning her experiences as a young Jewish girl in Poland during the Second World War, commencing with the German occupation of Cracow (Kracow) and the family's internment in the ghetto there, the deportation and death of most of her family, her own transportation to the labour camp at Plaszow, where she witnessed many atrocities (also describing encounters with the notorious commandant Amon Goeth), subsequent transportation to Auschwitz and relatively brief internment there, and finally to Belsen camp where she remained until liberation in April 1945, after which she was sent to Sweden with other survivors to receive medical attention and convalesce.

MakerName
Spier

Forenames
H

Style
Mrs

RelatedImageFile
SpierH_005426_2.jpg

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
Death

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
12/09/2006 05:50:12

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

IndexPlace
Kracow, Poland
Plaszow, Poland
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland
Belsen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Sweden

IndexEvent
German Invasion of Poland 1939, Poland, Second World War
Liberation of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp 1945, Holocaust, Germany, Second World War

PDF
SpierH_005426_2.pdf

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
10392

OtherNumber
Misc 110 (1722)

ObjectType
Miscellaneous Documents

ShortSummary
Duplicated ts execution orders (1p) issued in March 1915, prior to the execution of eleven prisoners condemned to death for their role in the Singapore Mutiny, together with a photograph of King's Shropshire Light Infantry troops pictured with a machine gun at Mount Faber, Singapore in the same month and a programme for a concert held on board HMT DESEADO in November 1914, also a brief duplicated ts account (2pp) by W Corbett Williamson primarily concerned with his experiences as a Royal Marine cyclist and orderly during the final evacuation from Cape Helles, Gallipoli, in January 1916.

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
Death

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
11545

OtherNumber
P371

ItemName
Private Papers of H N Peyton

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Ts memoir (30pp) recording his enlistment and service in the RFC principally at Andover with No 104 Squadron RFC, 1917 - 1918, while also describing his later service career during 1941 - 1945, firstly at the Royal Ulster Rifles depot in Northern Ireland, then with the Corps of Military Police in London, 1942 - 1943, and as provost staff with the King's Royal Rifle Corps in York, 1943 - 1944; transferring to the RAOC he was attached to the 1st Tank Brigade (79th Armoured Division) and served in North West Europe, August - October 1944, describing the battle areas in the aftermath of fighting in Normandy. Until his discharge in November 1945 he served at an RAOC depot in Antwerp where he describes V-weapon attacks, the execution of collaborators and fraternisation with German civilians; his attitude is that of an 'old soldier' contemptuous of most of his officers and of discipline.

MakerName
Peyton

Forenames
H N

RelatedIWMItems
See full catalogue and DCAR (DEAF/DPB)

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
Death

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
12463

OtherNumber
Misc 231 (3294)

ObjectType
Miscellaneous Documents

ShortSummary
Cyclostyled ts extract (1p) from the Routine Daily Orders for No 28 Infantry Base Depot in Rouen, France, announcing the court martial of Private T Hope of the 2nd Battalion Leinster Regiment and Private A Atkinson of the 1st Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment and their subsequent military execution for desertion on 2 March 1915.

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
Death

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
3192

ProductionDate
1978

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
McCann, Ethel Dorothy xxx

IndexPlaces
DE
DE & Dresden
AT
GB, England
FR
FR & Camiers

IndexUnits
GB.O & British Red Cross Society
GB.O & Voluntary Aid Detachment

IndexConcepts
Medical services

ShortSummary
British civilian nurse with Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment in France, 1915-1919

FullSummary
REEL 1 Recollections of period in Germany, pre-1914: outbreak of war, 1914; escape to Austria; return to Dresden; arranging return to GB; anti-British feeling in Germany; train journey; meeting wives of British prisoners; suicide attempt of one wife; passing through Customs; conditions in hotel at Rotterdam. Aspects of period in GB, 1914: arrival in GB; preparations for war in GB and Germany.
REEL 2 Continues: nursing work; volunteering to go to France. Recollections of period as VAD nurse, Camiers, France, 1915-1919: preparing hospital for use; tented accommodation; daily routine; relations between VADs and army nurses; opinion of Matron; attitude towards Colonel; soldiers reluctance to talk about experiences; attitude of VADs towards work; lice; condition of patients on arrival; shell shock cases; West Africans in hospital.
REEL 3 Continues: entertainment; social life; conditions during winter of 1915/1916; nurses clubs; influenza epidemic, 1918; reaction to deaths of soldiers on Armistice Day; increase in freedom for VADs after Armistice; discipline; preparing to evacuate due to German advance, 1916; generosity of public during war; decision not to talk about work when off duty.
REEL 4 Continues: memories of nursing war artist, Adrian Hall; taking patients to nurses club; visiting village; air raid; lack of air raid precautions.

ContextDescription
Civilian Life and War Work, 1914-1919: War Work, 1914-1918

Duration
120

NumberOfParts
4

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
McCann, Ethel Dorothy

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Female

Language
English

RelatedSoundFile
003192S01.mp3
McCann-remembrance.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
Death

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
7396

ProductionDate
1984

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Hancock, Malcolm E xxx
Cody, Samuel F
Cowdery, Samuel Franklin
George VI <King>
Tatham, Wilfrid
Churchill, Winston L S

IndexPlaces
GB, England & Gloucester, Glos <King's School>
GB, England & Wellingborough, Northants <School>
GB, England & Bisley, Surrey
GB, England & Norwich, Norfolk
GB, England & St Albans, Herts
GB, England & London
GB, England & Chequers Court, Bucks
GB, England & London
GB, England & Regents Park, London
GB, England & Halton, Bucks <Camp>
GB, England & Guildford, Surrey <Stoughton Barracks>
GB, England & Crowborough, Sussex
GB, England & Pirbright, Surrey <Barracks>
GB, England & Sandringham, Norfolk <Palace>
GB, England & Coleshill, Berks <House>
GR & Lemnos & Mudros
MT
EG & Alexandria
EG & Luxor
EG & Alexandria <Ras el Tin Hospital>
TR & Suvla, Gallipoli <A Beach>
TR & Suvla, Gallipoli
TR & Suvla, Gallipoli <Kiretch Tepe>
TR & Suvla, Gallipoli <Kidney Hill>
TR & Suvla, Gallipoli <Green Hill>
TR & Suvla, Gallipoli <Hill 60>
TR & Anzac, Gallipoli
SL & Freetown <Wilberforce Barracks>
SL & Mabanta
DE & Berlin, Berlin
DE & Berlin, Berlin <Reichstag>
DE & Brunswick, ///
DE & Beilfield, ///

IndexUnits
GB.O & Gallipoli Association
GB.A & Gloucestershire Regt, Bn 3
GB.A & Northamptonshire Regt, Bn 1/4
GB.A & West African Regt,
GB.A & Northamptonshire Regt, Bn 2/4
GB.A & Officers Training Corps, Wellingborough School
GB.A & Bde, 162
GB.A & Bde, 207
GB.A & Home Guard, Auxiliary Units
GB.A & Div, 54
GB.A & Div, 69
GB.A & Camp, Halton
GB.A & Coats Mission
GB.A & Barracks, Stoughton, Guildford
GB.A & Barracks, Pirbright
GB.A & Barracks, Wilberforce, Freetown
GB.A & Local Defence Volunteers
GB.A & Coldstream Guards, Bn Training
GB.A & Coldstream Guards, Bn Holding
GB.A & Camp, Halton
GB.A & West African Regt
GB.A & Plans Group G
GB.N & Royal George
GB.N & Royal Edward
GB.N & Nevassa
GB.N & Esquibo
GB.N & Britannic
GB.N & Hyacinth
GB.O School, Wellingborough
GB.O School, King's School, Gloucester

IndexConcepts
anti war

ShortSummary
British officer served with 1/4th Bn Northamptonshire Regt in GB and Gallipoli, 1915; served with West African Regt in Sierra Leone, 1917-1918. Served with Home Guard in GB, 1943-1945

FullSummary
REEL 1: Outbreak of war, 4/8/1914. Period teaching at King's School, Gloucester, 9/1914-4/1915. Opinion of concientious objectors. Commission into Northamptonshire Regt, 13/4/1915. Recollections of pre-war Officers' Training Corps activities at Wellingborough School, 1911-1914: training at summer camps; seeing Cody; entering rifle shooting competition at Bisley. Recollections of period with A Coy, Northamtonshire Regt at Norwich and St Albans, 4/1915-7/1915: parents' reaction to enlistment; reception and story illustrating early responsibility; kitting out; drill instruction for new officers; route marches; tactical exercises.
REEL 2 Continues: training; formation of 162 Bde; officers weapons; duties as billeting officer at St Albans; relationship with St Albans civilians; kitting out with tropical kit. Recollections of voyage aboard Royal George to Mudros, Lemnos, Greece, 7/1915-8/1915: send off at St Albans; question of submarine threat; conditions; visit to Malta; gas lectures and inadequate masks issued; Turkish lectures; leaving heavy equipment at Alexandria, Egypt; machine gun practise; news of sinking of Royal Edward; issue of iron rations.
REEL 3 Continues: Landing from destroyer at A Beach, Suvla, Gallipoli, Turkey, 15/8/1915: personal morale; absence of fire. Recollections of operations in Kiritch Tepe sector, 15/8/1915-16/8/1915: initial advance towards Kidney Hill; reaction to casualties coming back; communication problems; failure of attack, 16/8/1915; story of rescue of wounded soldier in view of Turks; being relieved. Movements in Suvla area, 8/1915: situation; water shortage; view of fighting towards Anzac; food rations; situation; march along beach; digging in at Green Hill; naval bombardment.
REEL 4 Continues: story of shell hitting court martial party at Green Hill. Recollections of conditions of service and lifestyle in front line at Hill 60, 9/1915-10/1915: situation; corpses built into parapets and story illustrating acclimatisation; deepening trenches and effort to cover corpses; question of overhead cover; sniper problem; establishing machine gun post; blocking off communication trenches leading from Turkish lines; use of periscope rifle to damage Turkish sandbags; view of Suvla area; limited perspective of junior officers; opinion of situation; dugouts; duties.
REEL 5 Continues: latrines; corpse and fly problems; ignorance of lice problem; food rations; story of being shelled whilst taking water party to water barges on beach; water shortage and importance of conservation; story of being shelled whilst bathing in sea; periods in rest area at Green Hill including fatigue parties, continued exposure to enemy fire and personal dugout; prevalence of dysentery and its effects; appearance of troops; question of noise levels.
REEL 6 Continues: daily routine including duties as platoon commander and company bombing officer, meals and use of periscope; deepening trenches; sentries; detachment to guard ammunition dump near Green Hill; contact with Sikh troops; duties as company and brigade bombing officer including description of jam tin, cricket ball and hairbrush bombs and re-using Turkish bombs; story of close escape from Turkish bomb whilst bombing; sniping activities.
REEL 7 Continues: enfilading shrapnel fire; naval bombardments; shooting at unidentified aircraft digging and successful detonation of mine by Australian Light Horse; question of detection of mining; effects of mines; question of patrolling; treatment, evacuation and reactions of wounded; reaction to casualties; acclimatisation of new drafts; morale; raids by neighbouring Gurkha unit.
REEL 8 Continues: opinion of Australian and New Zealand troops and story illustrating their acclimatisation to corpses in trenches; opinion of Turkish troops and illustrative stories of them withholding fire during rescue of wounded soldiers; question of award of Military Cross; question of relevance of training for Gallipoli conditions; reaction to newspaper news of miners strike in GB; parcels from GB; climate; story of being wounded in leg by shrapnel during assignment to teach bombing techniques and use of bomb catapult to Norfolk Yeomanry, 31/10/1915. Recollections of evacuation to Alexandria, 31/10/1915-2/11/1915 : stretcher journey to Anzac dressing station; reaction to leaving Gallipoli aboard Nevassa.
REEL 9 Continues: period in dressing station at Anzac; medical treatment on Nevassa. Medical treatment at Ras-el-Tin Hospital, Alexandria, and convalescence at Luxor, 11/1915. Voyage on Esquibo and Britannic to GB, 12/1915. Period in convalescent home in London, 12/1915. Convalescent leave in St Albans, 12/1915: relationship with civilians; further operation on leg. Period training recruits with 2/4th Bn Northamptonshire Regt at Halton Camp, 1916. Relationship with regular officers on posting to Pioneer Coy, 3rd Bn Gloucestershire Regt at Sittingbourne, 1917. Posting to Stoughton Barracks, Guildford, 1917: organising farm labour.
REEL 10 Continues: organising farm labour; story of missing train from London. Posting to 2/4th Bn Northamptonshire Regt at Crowborough, 1917. Story of receiving wound gratuity and award of Military Cross, 1916. Background to volunteering for West African service and question of attitude to possibility of service on Western Front 1917. Recollections of period with West African Regt at Wilberforce Barracks, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1917-1918: training in bush warfare; guarding public utilities; assisting district commissioner at Mabanta out station; origin of African troops and rumour of cannibal incident; attempt to capture African civilian terrorising local villages; conditions of service; reaction to news of Armistice, 11/1918; malaria attack.
REEL 11 Continues: malaria attack. Voyage aboard HMS Hyacinth to GB, 11/1918. Leave prior to demobilisation, 3/1919. Establishing career as horse racing judge, 1919-1939. Outbreak of war and service with Local Defence Volunteers prior to commission into Coldstream Guards, 9/1939-5/1940. Opinion of developments in tactical training observed during period with A Coy, Training Bn Coldstream Guards at Pirbright, 1940-1941. Recollections of period with Coats Mission, 1941-1942: role evacuating and defending Royal family in event of attack; training; guarding Royal family when outside London; George VI's expertise at Sandringham shooting parties; 'safe houses' used.
REEL 12 Continues: defences established at 'safe houses'; emergency transport arrangements for Royal family; recollections of Tatham and other officers; personal contacts with Royal family; pride in role. Period with Holding Bn at Regents Park, London, 1942-1943: guarding Royal and Prime Ministerial residences; recollections of Churchill; Chequers defences. Period with Auxiliary Units, Home Guard, 1943-1945: geographical organisation and sabotage role in event of invasion; supply duties as deputy assistant quarter master general; local units and their concealed dugouts; training at Coleshill House; communications system.
REEL 13 Continues: Recollections of period as assistant welfare officer, Berlin area, Germany, 1946-1946: prior assessment interview; preparations; role providing entertainment for troops; preliminary work in Beilfield and Brunswick as part of Plans Group G; difficulty in getting permission to enter Berlin from Russian troops, 1/7/1945; reception from German civilians; requisitioning buildings and entertainment facilities of all kinds to entertain troops; relaxation of non fraternisation rule; publication of 'Welfare Bulletin'; role housing voluntary welfare organisations; story illustrating relationship with Russians.
REEL 14 Continues: Story illustrating relationship with Russians; relationship with Americans; damage caused by Russian troops to Reichstag; Victory parades; demobilisation, 8/1945. Position as President of Gallipoli Association, 1984: initial recruitment; annual functions; visit to Gallipoli, 1983.

ContextDescription
Military Operations, 1914-1919: Gallipoli, 1915

Duration
420

NumberOfParts
14

OtherFormats
Full : 130pp

MakerName
Hancock, Malcolm Ernest

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

RelatedIWMItems
Photographs (1941, 1983) in transcript and file
Another interview on 16446

RelatedSoundFile
007396S01.mp3
007396S02.mp3
Hancock-remembrance.mp3
Hancock-landwarfare.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
TrenchWarfare
Death

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
9371

ProductionDate
8/Jul/1986

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexObjects
poem: A song for the sisters of Pichieh
poem: Memorandum from personnel officer to Gerald Richards

IndexPeople
Wood, J Duncan xxx

IndexPlaces
GB, England
CN

IndexUnits
GB.O & Friends Ambulance Unit

IndexConcepts
Anti war
Medical services

ShortSummary
British civilian conscientious objector served as personnel officer with Friends Ambulance Unit in GB and China, 1940s

ContextDescription
Anti-War Movement
Poetry: Second World War

Duration
390

NumberOfParts
13

OtherFormats
Full : 134pp

MakerName
Wood, John Duncan

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

RelatedIWMItems
Photo in t/s

RelatedSoundFile
Wood-remembrance.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
Death

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
9732

ProductionDate
2/Mar/1987

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexObjects
stained glass: Alabama Window
stained glass: Brighton and Hove Synagogue
poem: On leave
poem: A million rifles

IndexPeople
Petts, Ronald John xxx
Petts, John xxx
Chamberlain, Brenda
Janes, Alfred
Rees, Bromfield
Levy, Mervyn
Thomas, Dylan
Davies, Mansel
O'Brien, Mary
Davies, Llewelyn
Birkenshaw, Sydney
Bramwell, James
Ford, Boris
Williams, W E
Jones, Gwyn
Lewis, Alun

IndexPlaces
GB, England
GB, Wales
FR
DE
EG
PI

IndexUnits
GB.O & British Union of Fascists <BUF>
GB.A & Army Medical Corps, Royal
GB.A & Army Education Corps, Royal
GB.A & Army Medical Corps, Royal & Field Ambulance Service, Parachute, 224
GB.O & Royal Academy

IndexConcepts
Artist
POW
Anti war
Medical services

ShortSummary
British civilian artist in London and Wales, 1914-1939; conscientious objector worked in agriculture in Wales, 1941-1944; NCO served with 224th Parachute Field Ambulance Service, Royal Army Medical Corps in North West Europe and Palestine, 1944-1945 and with Royal Army Education Corps in Egypt, 1945-1946

ContextDescription
Artists In An Age of Conflict
Anti-War Movement
Poetry: Second World War
Airborne Forces

Duration
470

NumberOfParts
16

OtherFormats
Full : 129pp

MakerName
Petts, Ronald John

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

RelatedSoundFile
Petts1-remembrance.mp3
Petts2-remembrance.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
WarGraves
Death

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
10 July 2007

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
9855

ProductionDate
6/Jul/1987

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Greening, Edwin xxx
Goldman
Pollitt, Harry

IndexPlaces
GB, Wales
GB, Wales & Aberdare, Glamorganshire
ES
ES & Figueras, Catalonia <Castle>
ES & Barcelona, Catalonia
ES & Asco, Aragon
ES & Vimbodi nnn
ES & Villhaba de los Sarcosnar nnn
ES & Belchite, Aragon
ES & Albacete, New Castile
ES & Tarazona de la Mancha, New Castile
ES & Gandesa, Catalonia
ES & Teruel, Aragon
ES & Calaceite, Aragon
ES & Batea, Aragon
ES & Marsa, Aragon
FR
FR & Paris
FR & Alles

IndexUnits
GB.O & Political Party, Independent Labour
GB.O & Political Party, Communist
GB.O & Committee Against Unemployment Fascism And War
ES.AR & International Bde, 15 & Bn British
ES.AR & International Bde, 12 & Bn Garibaldi
ES.AR & Base, Tarazona de La Mancha
ES.AR & Base, Albacete
ES AR & Barracks, Figueras

ShortSummary
British civilian miner in Aberdare, Wales during 1930s. Served with British Bn 15th International Bde in Spain, 9/1937-10/1938.

FullSummary
R1 Family background and political development in Aberdare, Glamorganshire, Wales 1910-1936: political meetings in uncle's library; literary influences; recruitment and activities with ILP Guild of Youth, 1929; question of opposing Blackshirts; background to split in ILP in 1933, recruitment to CP; recollections of members of Aberdare CP; aspects of being unemployed, reaction to economic depression in South Wales coalfields, 1929; question of backgrounds of CP comrades; comparison of activities and education in ILP and CP; story illustrating relationship between religion and communism in South Wales; activities with Committee Against Unemployment Fascism and War, 1935-1936; reaction to Nationalist uprising in Spain, 7/1936. R2 Background to joining International Bdes in Spain, 9/1937: decision to volunteer; question of knowledge of risks; reaction of family; view of recruiting office in Litchfield St, London; being questioned by police at Victoria Station; receiving travel instructions in Paris; impressions of Alles, France, 9/1936; being given packed-lunch and footwear at border; crossing Pyrenees. Recollections of period with British Bn, 15th IB in Spain, 9/1937-10/1938: conditions at Figueras Castle; waiting for transfer to Valencia; opinion of delay in getting volunteers to front; opinion of period of training at Albacete and Tarazona de La Mancha, 10/1937-11/1937. R3 Continues: rifle training; rations; story of being rescued by women whilst suffering from extreme cold; receiving medical treatment at Garibaldi Bn headquarters, 1/1938; recruitment to No.1 Coy, 1/1938; positions in reserve on River Ebro, 1/1938; atmosphere among Welsh volunteers before first action; retreating from bombardment at Belchite, ca 15/1/1938; reaction to Teruel Offensive; positions in reserve at Corbera, 15/3/1938; question of unit discipline; question of casualties; positions at Villhalba de las Sarcosnar, near Gandesa, 28/3/1938; view of refugees; duties on patrols; reaction to news of ambush of British Bn at Calaceite, 3/1938; recuperating at refugee soup-kitchen; mobilisation and action at Batea ; sheltering from fire in barn. R4 Continues: view of Garibaldi Bn; attempts to escape Nationalist bombardment; being under air attack near River Ebro; background to rejoining unit, 6/4/1938; condition of unit; duties as infantry observer during Ebro Offensive, 7/1938; story of dispute with comrade over attack on Nationalist observation post; aspects of observation duties, 7/1938; description of crossing the River Ebro at Asco, 25/7/1938; being under air attack at Sierra Pandols. R5 Continues: story of death of Welsh comrade in mortar attack; story of being consoled by Harry Pollitt; story illustrating destruction of Catalan towns; aspects of period with infantry observer unit during Ebro Offensive, 8/9/1938-21/9/1938 including shortage of observers, view of Nationalist forces, becoming isolated, crawling back through line. R6 Aspects of repatriation and return to GB, 9/1938-12/1938: reaction to news of withdrawal of IBs; visiting IB library in Marsa; reactions to news of Munich Agreement, 9/1938; being billeted in Ripoll, 10/1938; visiting Barcelona for IB parade; attending IB review at Vimbodi; train journey to border; march into France and train to Dieppe. R7 Continues: reception in London, 6/12/1938; reception at Royal Hotel, Cardiff; opinion of international situation in 1939; opinion of Spanish war; question of encountering discrimination in GB.

ContextDescription
Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

Duration
200

NumberOfParts
7

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Greening, Edwin

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

RelatedSoundFile
Greening-remembrance.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
Death

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
25 June 2007

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
9997

ProductionDate
1987

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Swales, Marjorie xxx

IndexPlaces
GB, England
GB, England & Leeds

IndexConcepts
Bereavement

ShortSummary
British civilian worked in munitions factory in GB, 1939-1940. Pilot husband killed; life as war widow

FullSummary
REEL 1 Recollections of family and educational background. Recollections of life and work, GB, 1939-1945: marriage, 8/1939; outbreak of war; husband volunteered for RAF; call up and entering munitions work; attitude towards munitions work; working conditions; pregnancy; reaction to receiving telegram that husband 'missing presumed killed', 1942; continuing to work whilst pregnant; reaction to receiving telegram that husband 'missing presumed killed', 1942; lack of information re husband's death; lack of support from RAF; financial situation. REEL 2 Continues: working during pregnancy; contact with wives of other air crew killed with husband; financial situation; assistance provided to mothers; reaction to end of war; erection of local war memorial; attitude towards treatment of war widows; story of how daughter visited her father's grave on War Graves Commission trip, post-war; visiting husband's grave.

ContextDescription
Civilian Life and War Work, 1939-1945

Duration
50

NumberOfParts
2

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Swales, Marjorie

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Female

Language
English

RelatedSoundFile
Swales-remembrance.mp3
Swales3-remembrance.mp3
Swales2-remembrance.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
WarGraves
Death
Memorials

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
10406

ProductionDate
1987

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexObjects
poem

IndexPeople
Etkind, Michael xxx

IndexPlaces
PL
DE
CS
CS & Prague

IndexUnits
DE.O & ghetto, Lodz
DE.O & concentration camp, Sonneberg
DE.O & concentration camp, Buchenwald
DE.O & concentration camp, Czestochowlainka

IndexConcepts
Concentration camp
Holocaust
Anti semitism

ShortSummary
Polish Jewish inmate in Lodz ghetto; inmate in Czeswtochowlainka, Buchenwald and Sonneberg camps, 1944-1945. Includes readings of own poetry

FullSummary
REEL 1 Aspects of family background. Recollections of civilian life in Lodz pre 1939: religious observation; education; antisemitism at school; economic circumstances of Jewish and Polish communities; relationship with other Poles; difficulties of reconciling Jewish faith with national identity; knowledge of Hitler's rise in Germany.
REEL 2 Continues: relations between Jews and gentiles; fears of impending war with Germany; Polish antisemitism; Jewish organisations; question of emigration. Recollections of life in Lodz after German invasion, 1939-1940: reaction to outbreak of war; meeting Polish refugees and soldiers.
REEL 3 Continues: attitude towards waiting for German attack; German attack on Lodz; atrocities witnessed by father; reaction to hearing speech by Hitler; food shortage; reaction to father being taken to 'work' for Germans; anti Jewish legislation; theft of Jewish property by Germans.
REEL 4 Continues: reaction to father and brother leaving Lodz; formation of Lodz ghetto, spring 1940. Recollections of period in Lodz ghetto from 1940: moving to ghetto with family; attitude of Poles towards Jews; description of ghetto; role of Judenrat; creation of workshops; typhoid epidemic.
REEL 5 Continues: reaction to death of brother; food rations; black market; death of mother; employment; gradual liquidation of ghetto; witnessing death of gypsies; relationship between Gypsies and Jews.
REEL 6 Continues: role of criminal police; movement of uncle and family to Warsaw ghetto; selling watches to buy food on black market; shortage of food; evacuation of young, old and sick from ghetto.
REEL 7 Continues: evacuation of children from hospital; speculation on fate of evacuated inmates; avoiding evacuation; attitude towards Gestapo leader in ghetto; various workshops in ghetto; working conditions.
REEL 8 selling valuables to bank; attitude towards head of Judenrat; learning of liquidation of other ghettos in Poland; social life; attempts to evade evacuation from ghetto; meeting man who escaped from Lodz and Warsaw ghetto. Aspects of period in prison waiting to be sent out of ghetto.
REEL 9 Aspects of transportation by train 4/3/1944. Recollections of period of internment at Czeswtochowlainka concentration camp, 1944: accommodation; procedure on arrival; sleeping arrangements; conditions; attitude towards shaving of head; duties; obtaining extra food from kitchens and punishment for being caught; selling stolen goods for food; fate of two fellow inmates.
REEL 10 Continues: sabotage of building work by Polish partisans; belief that Germans would lose war; attitude of Polish workers towards Jews; arrival of munitions workers at camp; attitude towards hard labour. Aspects of transportation by train to Buchenwald. Recollections of period of internment at Buchenwald concentration camp: procedure on arrival.
REEL 11 Continues: attitude towards various different prisoners in camp; relative freedom within camp; cinema in camp; Russian execution of a German and a Polish inmate; Appells; description of barracks; arrival of Poles in camp; condition of American prisoners; food rations.
REEL 12 Continues: food rations; security in and around camp; daily routine; weather conditions; avoiding immunisation against typhoid; deaths within the camp; rounding up of inmates to leave camp.
REEL 13 Various aspects of transportation to Sonneberg. Recollections of internment at Sonneberg camp: description of camp; accommodation; attitude towards German guards; security around camp; food rations; work duties; information on course of war from German inmate; relationship between older Germans and Russian POWs; work duties.
REEL 14 Continues: work duties; punishment for evading work duties; death of friend from pneumonia; lack of recreational activities; effects of camp life on health; roll calls; attitude towards guards; evacuation of camp.
REEL 15 Aspects of marching towards Czechoslovakia, 3/1945: clothing; accommodation on journey; food rations; being turned back by SS men; witnessing US tanks on other side of river; American soldiers captured and shot by German civilians; fear of being murdered by German escorts; shooting of sick friend; shooting of prisoners that tried to escape; attitude of Germans towards prisoners; learning that Hitler was dead.
REEL 16 Continues: discovering two dead Germans hanging from trees in woods; friends that escaped from guards; punishment for trying to obtain extra food. Aspects of liberation by American troops. Recollections of refuge in village after liberation: food cooked by German civilians; washing; difficulties of eating after near starvation.
REEL 17: attitude towards pessimistic friend. Recollections of life in Czechoslovakia after liberation, May 1945: walking without shoes; kindness of Czech civilians; staying with Czech farmer; marching with Russian soldiers; interrogation of German POWs and Russian soldiers by Russians; escaping from Russian soldiers.
REEL 18 Continues: care at hospital in Pilsen; collecting water for German civilians captured by Russians; being cared for at another hospital for Russian POWS; attempts to escape from hospital.
REEL 19 Continues: escaping from hospital; moving to hospital for camp survivors; anti Russian attitude of Poles; meeting fellow camp inmate; kindness of Czech civilians in Prague; news from Poland; employment on farm near Prague; meeting friend who had escaped on march from Sonneberg. Recollections of period in Theresienstadt waiting to be sent abroad: getting past Russian guards; conditions.
REEL 20 Continues: black market; lack of recreational activities in camp; learning of sister's death in ghetto, 8/1944. Recollections of period in Prague before flying to England: travelling by train from Theresienstadt to Prague; optimism for future; visiting cinema in Prague; eating white bread for first time; description of airplane; description of flight with group 'The Boys'. Recollections of arrival in Britain: travelling through Lake District to Windermere; accommodation; learning English; nightmares experienced by camp survivors; medical problems; contacting relatives in America and Palestine; contacting cousins in Poland that had survived the Warsaw ghetto.
REEL 21 Continues: attitude towards possibility of living with relatives. Recollections of period living in Scotland: selection for period of rest and recuperation; education; decision to work in architect's office in Glasgow; evening studies at Glasgow School of Art and Architecture; attitude towards help from Jewish organisations. Moving to London 1949: finding job and accommodation; socialising with other refugees; psychological effects of camps on older survivors. Aspects of visiting Poland in 1979: reaction to visiting old house; attitude towards Polish people. Aspects of visiting Germany in 1980s: giving testimony against guard in Lodz; surprise at finding Jewish communities in Germany; reflections on anti semitism and racism today.
REEL 22 Continues: attitude towards War Crimes trials; belief that German and Polish civilians knew about concentration camps; receiving compensation from Germany. Reflections on Holocaust experience: attitude towards impact of second world war; inability to relay experience to his children; writing poetry about experience. Recites songs and poetry: reads 'Hitler'; reads 'A Dying Breed'; reads 'A Gust of Wind'; reads 'And Nothing Else'; reads 'And You'; reads 'April 1945'; reads 'Arrival in Buchenwald'; reads 'August 1942'; reads 'But it was More'; reads 'Der Führer'; reads from 'The Jews Are Our Misfortune'; reads 'Don't Give Me Power'; reads translation of Partisan song 'Don't Ever Say'; 'Freedom'; reads 'England'.
REEL 23: Continues: reads 'If'; reads 'From Slime'; reads poem; reads 'I Knew the Time'; reads 'Justice'; reads 'No Eyebrow Raised'; reads 'Never Again'; reads 'Not In'; reads 'Not I to Bow'; reads 'Not Man'; reads 'Solidarnosc'; reads 'Progress'; reads 'Reality'; reads 'Remember Those'; reads 'So Little's Changed'; reads 'Silence Death At Work'; reads 'So Long As'; reads 'The Butcher of Sobibor'; reads 'The Gypsy Camp, Lodz 1942'; reads 'The Journey'; reads 'Lullaby'; reads 'The List'; reads 'The Mind Forgets'; reads 'The News'; reads 'The Musselmann'; reads 'The Pious First'; reads 'Through Eyes Chastised'; reads '30th August 1939'; reads 'They Burn Children Don't They?'.
REEL 24 Continues: reads 'They Died in Vain'; reads 'Treblinka'; reads poem written by women for daughter in Auschwitz; reads 'Tomorrow we shall Study'; reads 'Two Questions'; reads 'Under a Different Name'; reads 'Until This Point in Time'; reads 'Victims'; reads 'Was it Destiny?'; reads 'Was There a Crime?'; reads 'We All Shall Die'; reads 'We Are Soldiers'; reads prose 'September 6th 1942; reads 'His Favourite Verse'.

ContextDescription
Nazi Europe, 1933-1945
Poetry: Second World War
Holocaust

Duration
710

NumberOfParts
24

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Etkind, Michael

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

RelatedSoundFile
010406S01.mp3
Etkind-remembrance.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
Death

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
10 August 2007

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
Polish

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
13927

ProductionDate
23/Mar/1994

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Kup, Edith Mary xxx
Heap, Edith Mary xxx
Wissler, Denis
Townsend, Peter
Bird-Wilson, Harold A C

IndexPlaces
GB, England

IndexUnits
GB.F & Women's Auxiliary Air Force
GB.F & Sqdn 405
GB.F & RAF Debden
GB.F & RAF Pocklington
GB.F & RAF Bourne
GB.F & Command, Bomber
GB.F & Command, Fighter
GB.F & Pathfinder Force

ShortSummary
British NCO served with Women's Auxiliary Air Force at RAF Debden GB, 1939-1941; intelligence officer with 405 Sqdn, RAF and with Headquarters, 92 Group, RAF in GB 1941-1945

FullSummary
REEL 1 Background in GB, 1918-1939: family; education; declaration of Second World War,, 9/1939. Aspects of enlistment and training with Women's Auxiliary Air Force in GB, 1939: enlistment in Women's Auxiliary Air Force, 9/1939; training at RAF Yeadon; relations between WAAFs. Recollections of period as officer at RAF Debden, GB, 11/1939-1941: journey to station and first impressions; training as Motor Transport driver; attitude of male personnel towards WAAFs; social life; training to be a radar plotter; plotting duties; duties at time of Dunkirk, 6/1940; memories of pilots, Harold Bird-Wilson and Peter Townsend; increase of work during Battle of Britain; listening to voices of pilots during combat; air raid on RAF Debden.
REEL 2 Continues: belief that GB would win Battle of Britain; memories of fiancé Dennis Wissler; death of fiancé in action 11/1940; other WAAFs who lost fiancés; bombing of house; discipline; reaction of WAAFs to bombing raids; attitude towards pilot charged with Lack of Moral Fibre; returning to Motor Transport duties. Aspects of officers training at Loughborough, GB, autumn 1941. Recollections of period to Sqdn 405, RAF at RAF Poklington, GB, 10/1941: operations duties; condition of crews on return from ops; story of pilot who fired gun at his CO.
REEL 3 Continues: pilot who fired at commanding officer; flying with air crews against the rules; attempts of air crew to make her air sick; WAAFs that went on ops against the rules; contrast between fighter and bomber pilots; position as 'Queen of Navigators'. Aspects of period as intelligence officer with Headquarters 92 Group, RAF in GB, 1943-1944: posting to RAF Bourne, near Cambridge: story of visiting a medium who gave her details of Dennis' death; duties debriefing Mosquito Oboe air crew; memories of D-Day, 6/1944; behaviour of US airmen in Cambridge; opinion of US airmen; reprimanding two US airmen who behaved badly in mess; memories of VE day, 5/1945.

ContextDescription
Air Operations, 1939-1945: Bomber Offensive, 1939-1945
Air Operations: Women's Auxiliary Air Force

Duration
90

NumberOfParts
3

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Kup, Edith Mary

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Female

Language
English

RelatedSoundFile
013927S01.mp3
013927S02.mp3
013927S03.mp3
013927S04.mp3
Kup-remembrance.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
Death

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
25 June 2007

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
17610

ProductionDate
1997-10-07

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Bays, Geoffrey xxx
Galloway, Don

IndexPlaces
GB, England
IT
IT, Sicily
IT & Anzio
IT & River Trigno

IndexUnits
GB.A & Royal Armoured Corps
GB.A & Royal Tank Regt, 46

ShortSummary
British trooper and NCO served with 46th Royal Tank Regt in North Africa and Italy, 1942-1944; served with Popski's Private Army in Italy, 1944-1945

FullSummary
REEL 1 Background in Lincoln and Ipswich, GB, 1922-1940: family; education; how he got out of reserved occupation; reasons why his father was keen on him to enlist in army; brushes with authority prior to joining army; reaction to declaration of Second World War, 3/9/1939. Aspects of period with Local Defence Volunteers and Home Guard in Ipswich, GB, 1940-1941: duties and training; belief that Germans would invade; how problems with eyesight prevented enlistment in RAF. Aspects of enlistment and training with Royal Armoured Corps in GB, 1941-1942: enlistment, 1941; opinion of training with 61st Training Regt. Aspects of operations as trooper with 46th Royal Tank Regt in North Africa, 1942-1943: voyage from GB to Egypt aboard Multan; reception on arrival with unit; how he was left out of battle at Ruweisat Ridge.
REEL 2 Continues: initial experience of Axis artillery barrage at Ruweisat Ridge; start of Battle of El Alamein; his wounding by artillery fire during Battle of El Alamein, 11/1942; attempt to recover tank from minefield, 11/1942; how he became commander of tank containing human remains; hospitalisation of abscess on hand, Egypt, 1942. Aspects of period transporting Italian internees from Saudi Arabia to Turkey, 1943: removal of internees to Canal Zone then Turkey; panic amongst internees aboard ship during Italian aircraft attack; removal of ex-British POWs from Turkey to Egypt. Aspects of period as NCO with 46th Royal Tank Regt in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944: move to Sicily; wounding of his tank crew; opinion of British forces until 1944; his introduction to Popski's Private Army during landings at Taranto, 9/1943; refusal of his commanding officer to allow him to join Popski's Private Army.
REEL 3 Continues: how he lost command of his tank on River Trigno; posting to Anzio after gunnery training in North Africa, 2/1944; nature of fighting at flyover bridge at Anzio; damage to his tank at Anzio; how his commanding officer was ordered to release him; orders for abortive attack at flyover, Anzio; inadequacy of US rations; supporting break out from Anzio beach-head, 5/1944; his admiration from German officer's observing of rules of war, 5/1944. Recollections of operations as NCO with Popski's Private Army in Italy, 1944-1945: joining unit at San Gregorio; parachute training.
REEL 4 Continues: allocation to B Patrol; independence of different unit patrols; question of how national war effort was undermined by dishonesty of dockers and army post office workers; medical problems in North Africa and Sicily; opinion of jeep and loads carried; weapons used by unit and personal weapons; use of jeeps to penetrate inaccessible villages in Umbria, 1944; development of sixth sense; firing on houses on tactical features; use of oxen to pull jeeps up banks of streams; problems operating jeeps; lack of German night-time patrolling; role of Special Forces.
REEL 5 Continues: laying mines to deal with German armoured cars; memories of commanding officer of B Patrol, Bob Unni; driving into San Marino; second hand story of Gurkha deferring to wounded British soldier in casualty clearing station; terrain in Ravenna area; reconnaissance patrols in Rimini area, winter 1944-1945; occasion when he was endangered by Vickers Machine Gun fire from British troops; attachment to Porterforce; his capture of Germans in village; question of professionalism of Popski's Private Army personnel; use of Italian farmer as guide.
REEL 6 Continues: story of attack on farm held by Germans; attitude to German he wounded during attack on farm; menace of S mines; incident when he described attack as stupid; occasion when he was caught in wire which he assumed was German trip wire; Don Galloway's soothing of oxen attached to unit jeep; entry into Ravenna and German counter attack, 12/1944.
REEL 7 Continues: thanks unit received from officers of 27 Lancers; mountaineering and ski training, 1/1945; crossing River Segno; arrival of new patrol commander; Italian civilian who led unit into German trap and wish of unit members to execute him; landing on spit in River Po and crossing river; opinion of B Patrol leader; surprising Germans on bridge over River Adige; attempt to get Germans to surrender on bridge over River Adige; attitude of troops to attack bridge over River Adige later abandoned by Germans.
REEL 8 Continues: capture of Germans on road to Venice; story of discovery of house full of dead German soldiers; acquisition of loot on route to Venice; encounter with British Army major who refused to support unit reconnaissance at Dollo; casualties during action against German rearguard at Dollo; objections of German POW officer to looting of POWs by Popski's Private Army personnel; Popskis' ambition to land in St Marks' Square, Venice.
REEL 9 Continues: arrival of Popkski's Private Army in Venice; how he nearly opened fire on British staff officers; behaviour of Yugoslavian Partisans, 5/1945; move to Vienna to observe Russian Army; realisation that Russians would not support Yugoslavians; Popski's protection of Austrian women; change in attitude towards Russians; confrontation with Italian Partisans who wanted to set up Communist state; volunteering to fight Japanese, summer 1945; reaction to return of Russians to Russia; work for L Concentration Area Control Unit in southern Austria; comparison of behaviour between Waffen SS and British troops; reasons why Germans executed Partisans; estimation of role of Italian Partisans.
REEL 10 Continues: attitude towards behaviour of Yugoslavian Partisans; women with Italian Partisans; sacrifice of Italian women on behalf of their families; how German female officer asked him to deliver letter to German in Russian Zone in Vienna; sight of column of Russians being marched back to Russia; lessons he learnt from participation in Second World War.

ContextDescription
Military Operations, 1939-1945: Italy, 1943-1945
Special Forces

Duration
300

NumberOfParts
10

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Bays, Geoffrey

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

RelatedIWMItems
Photograph (1944) in file

RelatedSoundFile
017610S01.mp3
Bays-remembrance.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
Death

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
14 February 2008

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
22598

ProductionDate
16/Jan/2002

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Sugden, Molly xxx
Sugden, Doris E xxx

IndexPlaces
GB, England
GB, England & London

IndexUnits
GB.O & Air Raid Precautions <ARP>
GB.O & Women's League of Home Defence <WLHD>
GB.O & Auxiliary Fire Service <AFS>
GB.O & Women's Auxiliary Air Force <WAAF>
GB.F & RAF Regents Park

IndexConcepts
Bereavement

ShortSummary
British civilian worked with Air Raid Precautions, Women's League of Home Defence and Auxiliary Fire Service in London, 1940-1943; medical secretary served with Women's Auxiliary Air Force in GB, 1943-1946

FullSummary
REEL 1 Aspects of family and educational background. Recollections of life and work, 1930s-1943: various jobs; economic situation; awareness of events in Europe; attitude towards Munich Agreement; memories of outbreak of war, 9/1939; gas masks; various jobs; air raids; reserved nature of job for import/export firm, Fat Oils Ltd; witnessing air raids on docks; volunteering for Air Raid Precautions.
REEL 2 Continues: watching air raid on London; joining ARP; lack of training; role of ARP; conscientious objectors working with ARP; organisation of ARP control room; duties in control room; making unexploded bombs on map; story of her grandmother's experience during air raid; joining Women's Home League of Defence, 1940; story of training to use adapted Lee Enfield rifles; WLHD badge; role of WLHD; opinion of Dr Edith Summerskill; lack of knowledge of WLHD today; voluntary work for Auxiliary Fire Service.
REEL 3 Recollections of period with Women's Auxiliary Air Force, 4/1943-7/1946: training; outbreak of diptheria in training camp; posting to RAF Regents Park; issue of kit and uniform; billets; attitude towards V1 and V2 raids; Air Crew Reception work at Regents Park; duties as medical secretary; memories of Turkish recruits; medical testing of men for RAF air crew; prevalence of VD; story of man who murdered prostitutes; posting to Scarborough and Shinfield Park; duties; outbreak of typhoid; VE-Day celebrations.
REEL 4 Continues: story of her RAF navigator fiancés death in air accident, 1943; meeting future husband, Rupert Sugden; demob, 5/1946; difficulties of life post-war; taking part in military parade through London; impact of war on situation of women; involvement with entertainment for service personnel.

ContextDescription
Civilian Life and War Work, 1939-1945

Duration
110

NumberOfParts
4

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Sugden, Doris Edith 'Molly'

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Female

Language
English

RelatedIWMItems
Photographs (1944, 1940s & 2002) in file

RelatedSoundFile
Sugden-remembrance.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
Death

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
22498

ProductionDate
12/Mar/2002

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexObjects
anti-tank weapon, British: PIAT

IndexPeople
Hall, Peter Geoffrey Bown xxx
McIndoe, Archibald
Templer, Gerald

IndexPlaces
GB, England
GB, England & Weston super Mare, Somerset
GB, England & Aldershot, Hants
GB, England & Caister, Norfolk
GB, England & Heathfield, Sussex
GB, England & East Grinstead, Sussex
FR
FR & Normandy
FR & Moen
NL
NL & Eindhoven
NL & Nijmegen
NL & The Island
NL & Elst
NL & River Rhine
NL & Dekkerswald
BE
BE & Antwerp
DE
DE & Millingen
DE & Vehlingen
MY
MY & Kluang
MY & Perak
MY & Cameron Highlands

IndexUnits
GB.A & Worcestershire Regt, Bn 1, Coy B
GB.A & Worcestershire Regt, Bn 1, Coy A
GB.A & Worcestershire Regt, Bn 11, Coy C, Platoon 15
GB.A & Armoured Div 9
GB.A & Div 43
GB.A & Independent Bde, Guards 214
GB.A & Operation, Market Garden
GB.A & OCTU, Aldershot
MY.A & Malay Regt, Bn 2
MY.A & Federation Regt, Bn 1

IndexConcepts
Medical Services

ShortSummary
British officer served with 11th and 1st Bns Worcestershire Regt in GB and North West Europe, 1940-1945. Served with 1st Bn Worcestershire Regt and attached to 2nd Bn Malay Regt and 1st Bn Federation Regt in Malaya, 1951-1957

FullSummary
REEL 1 Background in Weston super Mare, 1919-1939: family; education; reasons for joining Territorial Army, 1939. Aspects of period as platoon commander with 15 Platoon, C Coy, 11th Bn Worcestershire Regt in GB, 1940-1943: commissioning into unit after OCTU at Aldershot; coastal defence in Caister area; role as platoon commander; joining 9th Armoured Div in Northamptonshire; role as lorried infantry and transport marches; reasons for transfer to 214 Guards Independent Bde; relations with guards. Aspects of period as officer with 1st Bn Worcestershire Regt, 43rd Div in GB, 1943-1944: how 11th Bn became 1st Bn; move to join 43rd Div in Sussex/Kent area; opinion of PIAT; entering closed camp at Heathfield, 1944; censoring of letters; embarkation procedure.
REEL 2 Continues: Recollections of operations as officer with 1st Bn Worcestershire Regt, 43rd Div in Normandy, 6/1944: smell of dead cattle of battlefield; impressions of Normandy including attitude of French civilians; wounding by British shell during assault on ridge at Moen, c16/6/1944; evacuation to GB with wounds. Recollections of operations as officer with 1st Bn Worcestershire Regt, 43rd Div in North West Europe, 1944-1945: return to unit after touring munitions factories, 9/1944; role as second in command of B Coy; role of unit during Operation Market Garden; amusing story of arresting Dutch policeman at Eindhoven; traffic chaos at Nijmegen, 9/1944; reconnaissance patrol on The Island; accident he had in barn; character of A Echelon; sound of German frogmen attacking bridge at Nijmegen; duties as second in command of company; capture by Germans during reconnaissance patrol at Elst and his escape under RAF attack.
REEL 3 Continues: return to unit; period in reserve; patrolling in Dekkerswald; amusing story of soldier's encounter with German in Dekkerswald; capture of German POWs; living conditions during winter, 1944-1945; attempt to obtain Dutch pig to supplement rations; escapades during leave in Antwerp; role commanding A Coy during attack on autobahn in Milligen-Vehlingen area, 27/3/1945; problems with supporting tanks, 27/3/1945.
REEL 4 Continues: outcome of autobahn attack, 27/3/1945; attacking German positions on River Lethe, 4/1945; German counter-attack at River Lethe; character of German battle group on River Lethe, 4/1945; second wounding and treatment by Sir Archibald McIndoe at East Grinstead. Attitude to having served with 1st Bn Worcestershire Regt in Second World War. Recollections of operations as officer with 1st Bn Worcestershire Regt in Malaya, 1951- 1954: personal interpretation on politico-strategic situation in Malaya prior to Emergency; posting of unit to Kluang, 1951; role commanding A Coy; discomforts of being in jungle; change in attitude towards jungle operations; importance of contact with jungle dwellers.
REEL 5 Continues: information obtained from Surrendered Enemy Personnel; leading ambush on insurgents; capture of documents; appearance of dead insurgents; question of success of insurgents; level of unit casualties; story of Iban tracker who won George Medal; reasons why insurgents did not attack unit's camp; co-operation with planters and police. Recollections of operations attached to 2nd Bn Malay Regt and 1st Bn Federation Regt in Malaya, 1954-1957: background to posting to 2nd Bn Malay Regt in Perak; opinion of Malayan troops; transfer to newly formed 1st Bn Federation Regt at request of General Gerald Templer; discovery of arms dump in Cameron Highlands.
REEL 6 Continues: aftermath of arms dump discovery; problems organising a multi-race force; amusing story of Sikh officer's camouflaged head gear; leaving unit; particular characteristics of operating in Perak; attitude towards insurgents; role in connection with New Village system; unit officers; uniforms worn by Malay Regt; proximity of service families to unit; memories of General Gerald Templer; attitude towards committee system; opinion of Malayan Police.
REEL 7 Continues: educational provision in Malay Regt; disposition of troops in jungle on patrol; signals used on jungle patrols.

ContextDescription
Military Operations, 1939-1945: North West Europe, 1944-1945

Duration
185

NumberOfParts
7

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Hall, Peter Geoffrey Bown

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

RelatedSoundFile
Hall-remembrance.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
Death

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Exhibits

IDNO
EPH 1034

ProductionDate
1920

ItemName
Next of Kin Memorial Plaque

ObjectType
memorial plaque

IndexPeople
Bolton, J C (5441 Lance Corporal)

IndexUnits
GB.A & Kent Regt, West Royal, Bn 8

FullSummary
The majority of these plaques were manufactured at the Woolwich Arsenal and other former munitions factories. The plaque was accompanied by an illuminated scroll in full colour and a printed letter bearing the cyclostyled signature of The King. The letter, from Buckingham Palace, reads: `I join with my grateful people in sending you this memorial of a brave life given for others in the Great War' George RI.' The Scroll reads: `HE whom this scroll commemorates was numbered among those who, at the call of King and Country, left all that was dear to them, endured hardness, faced danger, and finally passed out of the sight of men by the path of duty and self-sacrifice, giving up their own freedom. Let those who come after see to it that his name be not forgotten.' The individual's name appeared underneath and was hand written in either dark blue(Royal Navy), red (Army) or light blue (Royal Air Force). The plaque and letter were sent by post - the plaque contained in a heavy-duty brown card cover, but the Scroll was sent separately in a cardboard tube. This plaque commemorates G/5441 Corporal John Crayston Bolton MM who was killed in action on 27th June 1917 while serving with The Signal Section of `A' Company, 8th Battalion Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Corporal Bolton, who was 22 years of age and the son of James Bolton (dec'd) and Harriet Bolton, came from Tunbridge Wells, Kent. He was killed during the Third Battle of Ypres. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres memorial, the Menin Gate, (Panel 45 and 47). There were a number of plaques issued to commemorate women who were killed in the First World War or who died as a direct result and these bear the legend `SHE+DIED+FOR+FREEDOM++AND HONOUR'.

RelatedIWMItems
OMD 3622-3625 : DOCS

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
Death

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 11:14:35

URLEncodedDeptName
Exhibits

FormatDescription
The plaque is made of bronze and is approximately four and a half inches in diameter. It was designed by Edward Carter Preston. The obverse bears the figure of Britannia, classically helmeted and robed, standing facing right, holding a modest laurel wreath crown in her extended left hand and supporting a trident by her right side with her right hand. In the foreground a male lion stands facing right. Above the lion's head is an embossed panel in which appears the name of the person commemorated. To the right of Britannia's head and to the side of her right arm is a small dolphin, symbolic of Britain's seapower. At the lower right edge is a branch of oak leaves and acorns. The standard text arranged around the edge of the plaque is `HE+DIED+FOR+FREEDOM++AND+HONOUR' Within the exergue, in symbolic confrontation, a lion pounces on an eagle representing the hoped for destruction of the Central Powers. This plaque bears the name JOHN CRAYSTON BOLTON.

Access
Access by prior appointment

DeptName
Film

IDNO
IWM 1070f

ProductionDate
1914

ItemName
PATHE GAZETTE [1914] - GERM-HUN KULTUR [Main]

IndexEvents
31/3(41)

IndexObjects
ceremonies, British - event-related: funeral
religion, Christianity - ceremonial, British

IndexPlaces
GB, England & Hartlepool, Yorks

IndexUnits
GB.N
GB.A

ShortSummary
Newsreel item on the funeral of victims of the German bombardment of Hartlepool, December 1914.

FullSummary
The hearses, with an escort of sailors, enter the cemetery. One coffin, draped with a Union Jack, is taken from its hearse to its burial plot. An Army burial party fires shots over the grave. One woman is visibly in tears.

ContextDescription
Technical: this fragment is currently held on the same reel as films IWM 1070a-h, the can is marked as IWM 1070

Duration
1 min

Format
P 1/35/A

Colour
B&W

Sound
Silent

NumberOfParts
1

Dimensions
43 ft

ProductionCompany
Pathe

ProductionCountry
GB

Language
None

LanguageMainTitles
English

LanguageSubtitles
English

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
DehumanisingTheEnemy
Death

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM

DeptName
Film

IDNO
SKC 318

ProductionDate
10/1944

ItemName
FIRST AID TO WOUNDED AND DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD [Main]

ShortSummary
A military training film staging the procedures for dealing with wounded men and in burying the dead.

FullSummary
(Reel 1) A Scammell recovery crew find a tank hit by an enemy mine with three injured and one dead. While the wounded are seen to, the recovery crew sweep for mines and mark a clear path with white tape to bring the tank out later. One wounded man has caught shrapnel in his leg and field dressed it himself. His wound is dressed again, he is wrapped in a blanket, given a cup of tea and a cigarette for shock. The other injured men are checked for heartbeat. (This is all silent with a voiceover). (Reel 2) One of the injured has head injuries, the other is unconscious with burns. Morphine is administered to the former, taken from the AFV First Aid Box which also contains chloroform. The men are lifted out of the tank using lifting slings dependent on their injury ie. if injury is below the waist, two slings under the arm; if injury is below the waist, two slings joined together are passed under the crutch. The wounded men are then carried to safety and the burns victim is attended to. Both men are kept warm and comfortable. (Reel 3) Field medical card filled out with state of injury, any drugs administered and attached to the injured party. Recovery and repair of the tank is initiated. An enemy aircraft flies low and the crew defend themselves with small arms. A sign is left indicating the presence of mines. Procedure for burying the dead: remove AB64, ID discs, uniform flashes and personal belongings. Red disc kept by the army and green disc left with the body. Mounds must be clearly marked so the Grave Service can locate the dead. Use pencil to write particulars on paper to place in can and half bury in the mound. Senior officer makes report for his unit and sandbags containing personal effects are passed to the next of kin via HQ. Meanwhile the injured men are taken back to the RAMC. by the quickest means possible.

ContextDescription
Technical: Sound very muddy on Reel 1.

Duration
29 mins

Format
P 1/35/A

Colour
B&W

Sound
comopt

NumberOfParts
3

Dimensions
2576 ft

ProductionSponsor
Army Kinematograph Service

ProductionCompany
Wallace Productions

ProductionCountry
GB

Language
English

LanguageMainTitles
English

LanguageSubtitles
None

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
Death

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM

DeptName
Film

IDNO
ADM 425

ProductionDate
1940 (ca)

ItemName
[MILITARY FUNERALS] [Allocated]

ShortSummary
Mute film showing four military funerals.

FullSummary
(1) Naval funeral parade and laying of wreaths at a multiple burials. (2) Funeral parade by WRNS in the snow. (3) Slow march of naval personnel with a coffin upon a gun carriage. Military signatories and wreath- bearers file past the camera. (4) Funeral with the coffins borne on the back of a truck and covered by a Union Jack.

Duration
1 min

Format
P 1/35/N

Colour
B&W

Sound
Mute

Dimensions
131 ft

ProductionSponsor
Admiralty

ProductionCountry
GB

Language
None

LanguageMainTitles
None

OtherReferences
dopesheet
shotsheet

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
Death

UncatTransferDate
30/01/2009 05:50:10

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM

DeptName
Film

IDNO
IWM 187

ProductionDate
1918

ItemName
GERMAN OFFENSIVE 10 [Main]

IndexEvents
01/3(4-15).83

IndexObjects
defences, British - passive: wire
transport, British military - ambulance
medical, British military - movement
combat, German - artillery bombardment [D]
casualties, German graves - formal
ceremonies, British - event-related: funeral (Manfred von Richthofen)
ceremonies, German - event-related: funeral (Manfred von Richthofen)
aircraft, German - combat: Fokker DrI & [captured] & [wrecked]
weapons, German - smallarm (mounted): Spandau machine gun & [captured] & [wrecked]

IndexPeople
Richthofen, Manfred von

IndexPlaces
France & Béthune, Pas-de-Calais
France & La Bassee Canal
Belgium & Mont des Cats, West Flanders
France & Bertangles, Somme

IndexUnits
GB.A & Div 51 (?)
GB.A & Div 33 (?)
GB.A & Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Bn 2 (?)
AU.A & Australian Imperial Force
AU.A & Air Corps
AU.A & Australian Flying Corps, Sqdn 3
PT.A & Div 2 & [cyclists]
GB.F

ShortSummary
British troops on the La Bassée Canal and the Mont des Cats area, and the funeral of Manfred von Richthofen ('the Red Baron') at Bertangles, all Western Front, mid-April 1918.

FullSummary
I. The La Bassée Canal sector. British troops commencing barbed wire defences in open country on 17 April. On the same day troops in Béthune (?) dig a trench-line, with shells bursting over the houses. Two stretcher-bearers carry a wounded man out of the garden of a house and put him in an ambulance (they are probably 51st Division). Soldiers of the Portuguese 2nd Division wheel their bicycles through Béthune on 20 April while men of 51st Division line the route. II. Two small groups of British soldiers rest in foxholes in the Mont des Cats area, maybe 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of 33rd Division. Shells fall on Mont de Cats (?) filmed out-of-focus from the far side of barbed wire entanglements on 22 April. III. The funeral of Baron Manfred von Richthofen at Bertangles on 22 April. Two groundcrew of the RAF display the wreckage of his Fokker triplane and its two Spandau machine guns. Members of six RAF squadrons carry wreaths along the road to the cemetery. The burial party consists of men of 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps. The party takes the coffin and places it covered with flowers on a lorry. The cortège moves off at a slow march. At the burial place itself a chaplain in vestments conducts the service while the burial party stands with reversed arms. The party then fires three volleys over the grave.

ContextDescription
Title: this is taken from the shotsheet.

Duration
11 mins

Format
P 1/35/A

Colour
B&W

Sound
Silent

NumberOfParts
1

Dimensions
676 ft

ProductionSponsor
Ministry of Information

ProductionCompany
Topical Film Company

ProductionTeam
McDowell, J B: cameraman

ProductionCountry
GB

Language
None

LanguageMainTitles
None

LanguageSubtitles
None

RelatedIWMItems
stills in the Photograph Archive (IWM : PHO/ Q 10917=10924)

OtherReferences
Toland, John : 1980 : No Man's Land : Eyre Methuen
Carisella, P J & Ryan, James W : 1969 : Who Killed the Red Baron? : Fawcett, New York
shotsheet

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
Combat
Death

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM

DeptName
Film

IDNO
IWM 415

ProductionDate
2/1918

ItemName
the LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS [Main]
[the BRITISH REGIMENTS] [series, allocated]

IndexEvents
01/3(4-15).7
01/3(4-15)

IndexObjects
operations, British military - routine
training, British military
religion, Christianity - military, British
ceremonies, British - event-related: funeral
casualties, British graves - battlefield: [+]

IndexPlaces
France
Belgium
France
Belgium

IndexUnits
GB.A & Lancashire Fusiliers, Bn 1
GB.A

ShortSummary
I. Probably 1st Battalion, the Lancashire Fusiliers, Western Front, autumn 1917.
II. A mass burial by soldiers of the British Army on the Western Front, 1916-1918.

FullSummary
A company resting. A long queue of soldiers in the camp is served with rations. Physical training exercises in the open air include a 'duck walk' and tossing a man in the air up a line. Bayonet drill for two opposing lines. The battalion marches along a dirt road while its band plays beside it.
The grave site is close to the battlefield and transport can be seen passing up a road in the background. The corpses are wrapped in shrouds and brought on stretchers to the mass grave, with an escort of soldiers. The battalion chaplain reads the burial service as the shrouded corpses are lowered, with some difficulty, into the grave. Some of the men handling the bodies are clearly distressed. The troops throw handfuls of earth down into the graves as the chaplain says a final prayer.

ContextDescription
Summary: it is likely that the opening sequence represents the incomplete film of the battalion, and the burial service is an accidental addition. See also IWM 388 and the rest of the series
Remarks: the burial service sequence is a very moving piece of film, and an excellent example of its type

Duration
10 mins

Format
P 1/35/A

Colour
B&W

Sound
Silent

NumberOfParts
1

Dimensions
613 ft

ProductionSponsor
War Office Cinema Committee

ProductionCompany
Topical Film Company

ProductionCountry
GB

Language
None

LanguageMainTitles
English

LanguageSubtitles
English

OtherReferences
Latter, J C : 1949 : the History of the Lancashire Fusiliers : :
shotsheet

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
Death

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM

DeptName
Film

IDNO
BFA 646

ProductionDate
8/12/1996

ItemName
[the IRISH GUARDS IN THE FALKLAND ISLANDS, DECEMBER 1996 (TAPE 1)] [Allocated]
[BRITISH ARMY ON EXERCISES AND IN TRAINING] [Allocated Series]

ShortSummary
Activities at the Irish Guards' camp at Goose Bay, and Remembrance Service at the Falklands Memorial, Port Stanley.

FullSummary
ARMY MOBILE NEWS TEAM SHOTLIST
(The following data has been copied, without amendment, from Army Mobile News Team computer discs.)
1 Coy on patrol at Goose Bay, bay in background
Patrolling L to R old portacabins in rear
Patrolling up track passing R of camera and continue up track
2 Soldiers kneeling - getup and walk out of shot
Pan from old shacks (L to R) round to Goose Bay
2 Soldiers map reading - Goose behind
3 Soldiers patrolling towards camera - Goose in background
Bristow's helicopter taking off from range location
CQB - men in water getting briefing
Loading weapons setting off
Soldiers moving, firing on CQB
2nd briefing - zoom out from pair and officer briefing
Moving out through the river onto bank
Soldiers with LMG shoot at Fig 12's
Following behind soldier - camera low angle
GPMG position - enemy fire simulation
Zoom from high ground to soldiers in gully
Shots of BV
Zoom out from Bristo's helicopter on pad to show camp location at ranges
Pan of range location
Zoom out from 1 IG on hillside to walkway camp
Aerial shots from helicopter of terrain
Bristow's heli in MPA
Cutaways - 1 Coy 1 IG sign (zoom out/in on badge)
Anti-aircraft gun
QRF, 1 Coy, 1 IG playing pool. watching TV and playing a game of risk
GV of oil tanks
Port Stanley - Cub and Sea Cadet
Old hull of sailing ship in water
Quick shots in church during service, collection and view of naval and vilians in church
Governor coming out of church and into Range Rover followed by other gnitaries
Band, parade march towards the Falklands memorial
Cannon in foreground - band, forces march past
View from behind Navy contigent and from on steps
March past Memorial, low shot
Cutaway - Government House, Stanley plaque

Format
Beta SP

Colour
Colour

Sound
Sound

Dimensions
30

ProductionSponsor
Headquarters Land Command

ProductionCompany
Headquarters Land Command Mobile News Team

ProductionTeam
Dock, Steve (Sergeant): cameraman

ProductionCountry
GB

LanguageSubtitles
English

OtherReferences
---

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
Death

UncatTransferDate
29/10/2007 05:50:20

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
To be established