DeptName
Documents
IDNO
855
OtherNumber
PP/MCR/325
ItemName
Private Papers of Records of the Croydon Parish Church War Memorial, 1914 - 1918
ObjectType
Private Papers
ShortSummary
Microfilm copy of the records of the commissioning and building of the Croydon Parish Church War Memorial, October 1920 - February 1922, kept by Mr H C Oswald, the Hon. Treasurer to the Sub-Committee established by the Parochial Council to oversee the proceedings, giving details of the cost of the memorial, the appeal organised to pay for it, the siting of it and its design, the ceremony of dedication and the unveiling in February 1922, and the recutting of the eroded inscription in 1988 at the instigation of Mr Oswald's grandson, Mr G A Oswald.
MakerName
Records of the Croydon Parish Church War Memorial, 1914 - 1918
RelatedIWMItems
See full catalogue and the papers of Lieutenant Colonel G K Oswald (Mr H C Oswald's son)
Weighting
1
SubThemeTag
Memorials
WebStatus
published
UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31
URLEncodedDeptName
Documents
Access
Unrestricted
DeptName
Documents
IDNO
7002
OtherNumber
Misc 195 (2894)
ObjectType
Miscellaneous Documents
ShortSummary
Folio containing comprehensive ms notes (117pp), written in the early 1930s, on war memorials and cemeteries of the British Empire across the world, listing cemeteries and memorials in New Zealand, Gallipoli, the United States, Palestine, Syria and Iraq, Asia, Egypt, Africa, Italy, Greece, Europe, the United Kingdom and on the Western Front, together with extracts from publications containing references to war memorials.
Weighting
1
SubThemeTag
Memorials
WebStatus
published
UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31
URLEncodedDeptName
Documents
Access
Unrestricted
DeptName
Documents
IDNO
7130
OtherNumber
77/142/1
ItemName
Private Papers of N Smithers
ObjectType
Private Papers
ShortSummary
Scrap book containing material relating to his service as a junior staff captain with the 3/4th Battalion and later 6th Battalion Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) (37th Brigade, 12th Division) on the Western Front, March 1917 - early 1919, and to visits which he made to war memorials in France in 1921, including official communiques, reports of military operations such as trench raids, field messages, a transcription (3pp) of the 37th Infantry Brigade war diary for the period of the German advance in March 1918, original cartoon drawings, miscellaneous notices and photographs.
MakerName
Smithers
Forenames
N
Honours
MC
Style
Captain
RelatedIWMItems
See also DPB
Weighting
1
SubThemeTag
Memorials
WebStatus
published
UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31
URLEncodedDeptName
Documents
Access
Unrestricted
DeptName
Documents
IDNO
10664
OtherNumber
Misc 79 (1208)
ObjectType
Miscellaneous Documents
ShortSummary
Collection of correspondence (110pp) between the ATN Officers Dining Club (18th Division) and the Imperial/Commonwealth War Graves Commission, relating to the upkeep of Divisional First World War memorials in France, 1952 - 1977; with printed and ts lists (106pp) of members of the Club, circa 1919 - 1956 and 1969 - 1977; correspondence (7pp) relating to the termination of the Club's financial affairs in 1978; a Club dinner menu from 1919; three printed cards of the battles of the 18th Division; and a photograph of HM King George V meeting III Corps commanders in August 1918.
Weighting
1
SubThemeTag
Memorials
WebStatus
published
UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31
URLEncodedDeptName
Documents
Access
Unrestricted
DeptName
Sound
IDNO
3749
ProductionDate
24/Oct/1954
ObjectType
Recording
IndexObjects
music: Last post
music: Lochaber no more
music: Reveille
IndexPeople
Montgomery, Bernard L xxx
IndexPlaces
EG
IndexUnits
GB.A & Army, 8
ShortSummary
Speech by British Field Marshal at unveiling of El Alamein Memorial at El Alamein, Egypt, 24/Oct/1954. Includes music: Last Post, Lochaber No More and Reveille
ContextDescription
BBC Sound Archives
Speeches
Music: Military Bands
Personalities Of The Twentieth Century
Duration
20
NumberOfParts
D/B
OtherFormats
None
MakerName
Montgomery, Bernard Law
ProductionCompany
BBC 20958-20959
MakerGender
Male
Language
English
RelatedSoundFile
003749S01.mp3
Montgomery-remembrance.mp3
Weighting
750
900
SubThemeTag
Memorials
WebStatus
Published
UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006
URLEncodedDeptName
Sound
Access
Educational use only
Nationality
British
DigitalAsset
Y
DeptName
Sound
IDNO
8273
ProductionDate
1984
ObjectType
IWM interview
IndexPeople
Sanders, Frederick A xxx
George V, King
IndexPlaces
GB, England & London
GB, England & Chatham Hill, Kent <Camp>
GB, England & Gillinghan, Kent
GB, England & Tunbridge Wells, Kent
GR & Lemnos & Mudros
TR & Helles, Gallipoli
TR & Helles, Gallipoli <Krithia Nullah>
TR & Helles, Gallipoli <V Beach>
BE & Ypres area, West Flanders <Goldfish Chateau>
BE & Ypres area, West Flanders
BE & Zillebeke, West Flanders <Zillebeke Lake>
BE & Ypres area, West Flanders <Home Farm>
FR & Somme area, Somme
FR & Arras area, Pas de Calais
BE & Ypres area, West Flanders <Railway Dugouts>
DE & Cologne
IndexUnits
GB.A & Royal Engineers & Field Coy, Kent, West, 3/1
GB.A & Royal Engineers Signal Service & Cable Section
GB.A & Army, 2 <Headquarters>
GB.A & Camp, Chatham Hill
GB.N & Scotian
GB.N & Hythe
GB.N & Scarnia
GB.A & Army, Rhine <Choral Society>
ShortSummary
British sapper served with 1/3rd West Kent Field Coy Royal Engineers in GB and Gallipoli, 1914-1915; present at sinking of HMS Hythe off Gallipoli, 28/10/1915; NCO served as signaller with Cable Section, Royal Engineers Signal Service in GB and on Western Front, 1917-1918;attached to 2nd Army Headquarters on Western Front and in Germany, 1918-1919
FullSummary
REEL 1 Training and work as draughtsman in South East London, 1912-1914. Reactions to outbreak of war, 4/8/1914. Recollections of recruitment underage as sapper and initial period with 1/3rd West Kent Field Coy Royal Engineers at Gillingham and Chatham Hill Camp, 5/1915-10/1915: gradual issue of uniform; procedure on response to newspaper appeal for recruits; accommodation; training including pontoons; horse transport; gradual issue of uniform; relationship with civilians and church attendance; leave; officers; lectures on Western Front conditions; NCOs and promotion bias towards men from Tunbridge Wells area; ignorance of Gallipoli posting. Voyage aboard Scotian to Mudros, Greece and transfer to HMS Hythe for voyage to Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey, 10/1915.
REEL 2 Continues: Recollections of HMS Hythe being sunk in collision with HMS Sarnia during crossing to Gallipoli, 28/10/1915: crowded conditions on deck and tarpaulin to keep off sea spray; diving into sea; rescue by HMS Sarnia; assisting in rescue of further survivors; post-war meeting with one of Sarnia's crew; return to Mudros; situation on collision; post war memorial to men lost; overcrowded conditions aboard Hythe; story of survivor. Aspects of operations at Helles, 11/1915-12/1915: landing; digging rest area dugouts; sniping problems whilst constructing machine gun emplacement in front line; digging wells in Krithia Nullah with specially recruited engineers; delayed evacuation with acute appendicitis. Operations for peritonitis aboard hospital ship and in Egypt, 12/1915-7/1916. Return to GB as unfit for further service and recovery during voyage, 7/1916. Aspects of period at unit depot at Maidenhead, 8/1917-12/1917. Transfered to Royal Engineers Signal Service, 1/1917. Operations and medical treatment for peritonitis during period in Egypt, 1/1916-7/1916. Various aspects of period in Helles, 11/1915-12/1915: landing at V beach; climate, situation and activities.
REEL 3 Continues: destruction of stores prior to evacuation; conditions of service; role assisting other engineering units; opinion of Australian and Indian troops; digging wells in Krithia Nullah with specially recruited engineers; limited contact with officers; question of evacuation. Aspects of period signal training in GB, 1/1917-3/1917. Various aspects of operations as signaller with BO Cable Section, Royal Engineers Signal Service on Western Front, 3/1917-2/1918: cable laying wagon; burying telephone cable in Arras area, 1917; casualties and promotion to corporal; bombing casualties amongst horses; duties in charge of telephone cable store in Somme area, 1917; period based at Goldfish Chateau, Ypres area, 7/1917-1/1918, including story of difficulties in laying cable from Home Farm to Zillebeke Lake under shell fire during British attack, 31/7/1917 and duties on ration parties supplying signallers in front line; attack of shingles on GB leave, 1/1918-2/1918. Various aspects of period attached to Second Army Headquarters on Western Front and in Cologne, Germany, 2/1918-5/1919: circumstances of posting; news of armistice, 11/11/1918; reception from German civilians on arrival in Cologne, 12/1918.
REEL 4 Continues: clerical duties in signal office; choir concert in front of George V; billets in Cologne; relationship with German civilians; singing with Rhine Army Choral Society; illustration of food shortages amongst Belgian civilians; opinion of Germans. Demobilisation and securing work as gas engineer, 5/1919.
ContextDescription
Military Operations, 1914-1919: Gallipoli, 1915
Military Operations, 1914-1919: Western Front, 1914-1918
Duration
110
NumberOfParts
4
OtherFormats
None
MakerName
Sanders, Frederick Arthur
ProductionCompany
IWM
MakerGender
Male
Language
English
RelatedSoundFile
008273S01.mp3
Sanders-remembrance.mp3
Weighting
750
900
SubThemeTag
Memorials
WebStatus
Published
UncatTransferDate
14 March 2008
URLEncodedDeptName
Sound
Access
IWM copyright
Nationality
British
DigitalAsset
Y
DeptName
Sound
IDNO
8278
ProductionDate
1984
ObjectType
IWM interview
IndexObjects
song : Fred Karno's Navy
song : 'Fred Karno's Navy'
IndexPeople
Watts, Arthur E xxx
Bonner, Charles G
George V, King
Winslow, Hugh
Cochrane (Lt-Cmdr)
Hall
Sandhurst (Col-Lord)
IndexPlaces
GB, England & Portsmouth, Hants <Victory Barracks>
GB, England & Blandford, Dorset <Camp>
GB, England & London <Admiralty House>
GB, England & Crouch End, London
GB, England & Barnet, London <Arkley View>
GB, England & Bletchley, Salop
GB, England & Crystal Palace, London <Royal Navy Depot>
FR & Paris, Seine
TR & Helles, Gallipoli <Brown House>
TR & Helles, Gallipoli
TR & Helles, Gallipoli <Krithia>
TR & Helles, Gallipoli <Haricot Redoubt>
TR & Helles, Gallipoli <W Beach>
TR & Helles, Gallipoli <V Beach>
DE & Bremen, ///
EG & Alexandria
GR & Lemnos & Mudros
MT
CL
IndexUnits
GB.A & Div, 63
GB.N & Royal Naval Div, Bn Collingwood
GB.N & Royal Naval Div, Bn Benbow
GB.N & Ivernia
GB.N & Southland
GB.N & Hythe
GB.N & Gurkha
DE.N & Goeben
DE.N & Breslau
GB.N & Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
GB.O & Boy Scouts
GB.O & Government, Intelligence Services, MI5
GB.O & Johnson & Watts
GB.O & Radio Society of Great Britain
GB.F & RAF Wireless Volunteer Reserve
GB.N & Royal Naval Wireless Volunteer Reserve
GB.N & Admiralty, Naval Intelligence Division, Near East Section
GB.N & Admiralty, Naval Intelligence Division, Room 40
GB.N & Admiralty, Naval Intelligence Division, German Section
ShortSummary
British officer served with Collingwood Bn Royal Naval Division in GB and Gallipoli, 1914-1915. Civilian organised amateur radio operators monitoring German Enigma code signals during Second World War, 1939-1945
FullSummary
REEL 1: Aspects of background in Crouch End, London, 1894-1914: learning French and German; question of military value of Boy Scouts activities; period in France, 1912; stories illustrating enthusiasm for war in Bremen, Germany, 1913-1914; work for family box making firm, 1914. Recruitment as ordinary seaman to Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, 4/9/1914: reasons; family reactions. Period with A Coy, Benbow Bn Royal Naval Division at Crystal Palace, 9/1914-1/1915: reactions to land role of RND; promotion to leading seaman; Canada House billets; hammocks; sings, 'Fred Karnos Navy'; basic training including route marches; officers training prior to receiving commissions, 29/12/1914; question of commanding older other ranks; recollections of Charles Bonner VC. Recollections of period with D Coy, Collingwood Bn Royal Naval Div at Blandford camp, 2/1915-5/1915: mud problem; hut accommodation; officers servant and post war relationship; training run illustrating other ranks lack of physical fitness.
REEL 2 Continues: improving fitness of other ranks; rifle training; tactical exercises; trench digging competition; relationship with civilians and post war memorial to unit; story of erecting flagpole for George V's visit; messlife. Recollections of voyage aboard Ivernia to Mudros, Lemnos, 5/1915: send off at Blandford; effects of inoculations; knowledge of destination; conditions; visits ashore at Malta; question of U-boat threat. Recollections of period at Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey, 5/1915-6/1915: landing from Hythe at V Beach; amphitheatre nature of beach; Asiatic Annie shell fire; question of beach activity; move inland to rest camp and then into reserve lines near Brown House; fly problem.
REEL 3 Continues: sniper problem; absence of shell fire; return to rest camp. Account of attack towards Krithia, 4/6/1915: absence of promised intensive bombardment; failure of French advance on Haricot Redoubt; support role of D Coy; destruction of advancing coys; story of being wounded in leg whilst trying to take ammunition forward; return to trench; evacuation that evening by stretcher; recollections of Hugh Winslow; evacuation from W Beach. Voyage aboard Southland to Alexandria, 4/6/1915-10/6/1915: overcrowding with casualties; development of gangrene in leg and question of adequacy of medical arrangements; story of alarm clock in kit. Recollections of period in hospital at Alexandria, 10/6/1915-14/7/1915: amputation of leg due to gangrene, 14/6/1915; immediate nature of recovery. Voyage on hospital ship Gurkha to GB, 7/1915: conversations with pilot acting as spotter for navy; confusion over telegrams sent to parents concerning seriousness of wound.
REEL 4 Continues: confusion over telegrams sent to parents concerning seriousness of wound. Recovery prior to fitting with artificial leg, 1/1916. Background to securing posting as intelligence officer with Near East Section, Naval Intelligence Division at Admiralty House, 3/1916-1919: qualities required; interview with Hall; initial attachment to German Section; logging various reports concerning Turkish coastal defences and effect of British air raids; interviewing German officer in command of Turkish gun positions on Asiatic side of Dardanelles; providing information on coastal conditions on Turkish coast assisting in rescue of escaped POWs led by Lieutenant Commander Cochrane; method of logging reports; monitoring progress of gap in Baghdad railway; attachment of brother to intelligence unit on Lemnos; checking British POWs letters sent to GB to discover coded messages; method of analysing letters of German sailors interned in Chile to discover ship which carried them; questions of calibre of guns sited at Cape Helles and railway guages across Austrian/Russian frontier illustrating work methods; methods of tracking and logging U-boat movements; aspects of careers of officers working with Naval Intelligence Div.
REEL 5 Continues: aspects of careers of officers working with Naval Intelligence Div; opinion of Hall; relationship with regular officers; travelling to work; activities as Boy Scout master with Crouch End Troop; relationship with civilians; story of security arrangements whilst taking despatches to Paris peace conference, 1919; question of Room 40; necessity of accuracy in intelligence work; work tracking and logging allied warships movements on world map; detailed knowledge of Turkish coast and question of weeding inaccurate reports; question of exchange of intelligence with army; approach of end of war, 1918; monitoring Goeben and Breslau.
REEL 6 Continues: Demobilisation, 7/1919. Value of war experience on returning to work in family box making firm, 1919-1939. Recollections of Naval Intelligence Division role interviewing captured personnel and analysing effects of dead from crashed Zeppelins, 1916-1918. Recollections of his family firm Johnson and Watts war work, 1939-1945: munitions packaging; waterproof emergency food rations packaging; makeshift solutions to problems caused by Blitz damage to factory; role as managing director; lack of profit on government orders; question of return to civilian production, 1945. Role as president of Radio Society of Great Britain, 1939-1945: early interest in radio and obtaining transmitting license, 1927; election as president, 1934-1940; acting as liaison officer to form Royal Air Force Wireless Volunteer Reserve and Royal Naval Volunteer Wireless Reserve; approach by Colonel Lord Sandhurst of MI5 to organise amateur radio operators to listen for German signals; vetting procedure; skills of amateur operators; methods of locating and recording German Enigma code signals and sending results to Box 25, Arkley View, Barnet; recruitment methods; ignorance of meaning of messages taken.
REEL 7 Continues: number of operators recruited and value of duplicated or incomplete messages recorded; recruitment of some amateur operators into services; value of work done, secrecy and question of public recognition; liaison role between operators and staff at Box 25, Arkley View, Barnet where messages were collected prior to forwarding to Bletchley.
ContextDescription
Military Operations, 1914-1919: Gallipoli, 1915
Naval Operations, 1914-1919: Royal Naval Division, 1914-1918
Duration
210
NumberOfParts
7
OtherFormats
None
MakerName
Watts, Arthur Egerton
ProductionCompany
IWM
MakerGender
Male
Language
English
RelatedSoundFile
008278S01.mp3
Watts-remembrance.mp3
Weighting
750
900
SubThemeTag
Memorials
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
11523
ProductionDate
12/Aug/1990
ObjectType
IWM interview
IndexPeople
Small, Kenneth xxx
Seekings, Dorothy
IndexPlaces
GB, England
IndexUnits
US.A & Div 1
US.A & Div 4
US.A & Operation Tiger
US.A & Operation Fabius
ShortSummary
British civilian schoolchild in Hull, 1939-1945. Recovered Sherman tank from sea off Slapton Sands, Devon erected 1974-1984 as memorial in Torcross to US troops killed 1944
ContextDescription
Civilian Life And War Work, 1939-1945
Duration
80
NumberOfParts
3
OtherFormats
None
MakerName
Small, Kenneth
ProductionCompany
IWM
MakerGender
Male
Language
English
RelatedIWMItems
Photograph (1990) in file and newspaper photograph
RelatedSoundFile
Small-remembrance.mp3
Weighting
750
900
SubThemeTag
Memorials
WebStatus
Published
UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006
URLEncodedDeptName
Sound
Access
IWM copyright
Nationality
British
DigitalAsset
Y
DeptName
Sound
IDNO
17353
ProductionDate
1997
ObjectType
IWM interview
IndexPeople
Fransis, Maurice xxx
Churchill, Winston L S
Macrae, Benjamin
Winter, George
Hornor, Sam
Scott, Robert
Mountabatten, Louis
Atkins (Captain)
Twidle, Roger
Greene, Richard
Murray-Brown, William
Bradshaw, Graham
Griffiths, Peter
Molineux, <Quartermaster>
Carrol, Jock
Partridge, <Sergeant Major>
Wilkins, Tim
Allen, Louis
Hirokibo
IndexPlaces
GB, England
GB, England & London
GB, England & London <West Hampstead>
GB, England & London < Haberdashers School>
GB, England & London < Gladstone Park>
GB, England & Warminster, Wilts <School of Infantry>
GB, England & Newcastle. Northd
GB, Scotland & Dunbar <Officers Cadet Training Unit>
GB, England & Hessle, Yorks
GB, England & Ilkley Moor, Yorks
GB, England & Fairford, Glos
SA
SA & Capetown
SA & Capetown <Retreat Camp>
IN
IN & Bombay
IN & Chinchwad
IN & Poona
IN & Kharakvasla
IN & Ahmedabad
IN & Ahmednagar
IN & Juhu
IN & Belgaum
IN & Chittagong <Transit camp>
IN & Nilgiri Hills
IN & Bangalore
IN & Dimapor
IN & Uti
IN & Kohima
IN & Kohima <GPT Ridge>
IN & Kohima <Aradura Spur>
IN & Kohima <Norfolk Memorial>
IN & Kigwema
IN & Maram
IN & Shillong <Hospital>
IN & Viswema
IN & Viswema <Shaving Brush Spur>
IN & Kabaw Valley
IN & Kanchapara <Camp>
IN & Kamreddi <Camp>
IN & Secunderbad
IN & Secunderbad <Club>
IN & Kalyan<Transit Camp>
BU & Chindwin
BU & Mandalay
BU & Saye
BU & Schwebo
BU & Saye
BU & Irrawaddy
IndexUnits
GB.A & Norfolk Regt, Bn 2, Coy D
GB.A & Norfolk Regt, Bn 2, Coy C
GB.A & Norfolk Regt, Bn 2, Coy B
GB.A & Norfolk Regt, Bn 2, Coy A
GB.A & Middlesex Regt, Bn 70 <Young Soldiers>
GB.A & Officers Cadet Training Unit, 165
GB.A & Div, 2
GB.A & Bde, 4
GB.A & Camp, Chinchwad, India
GB.A & Camp, Transit Chittagong, India
GB.A & Camp, Kanchapara, India
GB.A & Camp, Kamreddi, India
GB.A & Camp, Kalyan, India
GB.A & Camp, Retreat. Capateown, South Africa
GB.A & School of Infantry. Warminster
GB.O & School, Haberdashers
GB.O & Regimental Assoc, Norfolk
GB.O & Assoc, Burma Star
GB.O & Assoc, Burma Campaign Fellowship Group
GB.O & BBC
GB.N & Orbita
GB.N & Strathmore
ShortSummary
British officer served with 2nd Bn Royal Norfolk Regt in GB, India and Burma, 1942-1945. Present at Battle of Kohima, 4/1944-5/1944
FullSummary
REEL 1 Aspects of background in West Hampstead, London, 1921-1939: family match manufacturing business; prep school education; education at Haberdashers School and Officers' Training Corps training; Mediterranean Jewish family background; question of anti-Semitism and bullying at Haberdashers School; interest in advertising industry. Work in family match manufacturing business in London and Newcastle, 1/1939-10/1939: question of awareness of Nazi Germany; outbreak of war, 3/9/1939; story of arrest as possible spy for photographing Tyne bridge and subsequent release; effects of war on match industry.
REEL 2 Background to recruitment to and initial period with 70th <Young Soldiers> Bn, Middlesex Regt in London, ca 5/1940-1/1941: reasons; medical; parents' reaction; role guarding reservoirs; presence of young recruits from prison; story of bullying incident and subsequent boxing match; promotion to lance corporal; stories illustrating nature of guard duties; question of training; Churchill inspection of unused cabinet war rooms bunker in Gladstone Park sector; German bombing; relationship with recruits from prison and question of class differences; relationship with NCOs and officers; selection for officer training. Recollections of training with 13 Platoon, D Coy, 165 Officers Cadet Training Unit at Dunbar, ca 2/1941-8/1941: removal of badges of rank; effect of differing social backgrounds of cadets.
REEL 3 Continues: story illustrating former senior NCO's difficulty in acclimatising to new status; tactical exercises; games devised to encourage quick reactions; motorcycle training ; weapons training including revolver, Bren gun, Sten gun and grenades, monitoring of cadets' behaviour at officers' club; relationship with instructors; recreations; passing out parade; question of choice of regiment; kitting out. Recollections of period with C Coy, 2nd Bn, RNR at Hessle, 9/1941-12/1941: reception in officers mess on arrival during exercises at Ilkley Moor, ca 9/1941.
REEL 4 Continues: relationship with platoon sergeant and ORs; role of officer's servant; exercises on Ilkley Moor; billets; story of being taken prisoner during divisional exercises; issue of tropical kit. Period at Fairford, 12/1941-3/1942: billets on Palmer estate; officers' mess lifestyle and mess bill; route marches; assault course; postings between C and D Coy; removal of excess officers; father's reaction to overseas posting; VIP inspections.
REEL 5 Recollections of voyage aboard Orbita to Bombay, 4/1942-6/1942: crowded OR's mess deck conditions; navigation instruction; Bren gun practice; importance of avoiding sun burn; question of destination; period at Retreat Camp, Capetown, South Africa, including incident over Sergeant Benjamin Macrae illustrating South African apartheid policies and story of almost missing ship on departure; collecting unit's pay from bank on arrival at Bombay. Period at Chinchwad Camp. 6/1942-7/1942: monsoon precautions; route march illustrating policy of working through day; honorary membership as officers of Poona clubs and drinking habits; training exercises and question of level of briefing at 'O' group system. Combined operations training at Kharakvasla, 7/1942: use of Fleming boats; question of realism of exercises.
REEL 6 Period at Ahmednagar, 7/1942-8/1942. Training at Juhu, 8/1942: conducting physical fitness tests on ORs; story of nearly drowning whilst crossing river using toggle ropes. Period on internal security duties at Ahmedabad, 8/1941-9/1942: nature of demonstrations; role. Recollections of period based at Ahmednagar, 9/1942-3/1944: attending 2 pdr anti-tank gun course and subsequent platoon training without guns; combined operations training; platoon patrol exercises during jungle training at Belgaum; opinion of Colonels George Winter and Robert Scott.
REEL 7 Continues: story of interview with Scott illustrating his policy of monitoring progress of junior officers; impact of Scott's promotion to Colonel; visit by Mountbatten; local leave interrupted by news of Japanese offensive at Utti hill station, Nilgiri Hills, 4/1944. Journey with transport to Chittagong, 4/1944. Period establishing Chittagong transit camp for 2nd Div transport, ca 4/1944-5/1944. Journey by jeep to Dimapor, 5/1944. Situation on rejoining unit at GPT Ridge, Kohima, ca 10/5/1944: reactions to news of casualties; reception; posting to B Coy; reaction to mortar fire; state of unit morale; reaction to discovery of RNR territorial badges on Japanese POW.
REEL 8 Continues: reaction to discovery of RNR territorial badges on Japanese POW; question of taking prisoners. Account of attack on Aradura Spur, 28/5/1944: situation and nature of terrain; prior reconnaissance patrol; moving up hill under fire; opinion of Sten gun; Scott's throwing of grenades; grenade wound to Scott and effect of his example on Fransis; retirement to road; question of necessity of attack; personal morale.
REEL 9 Promotion to lieutenant during rest period at Dimapor, 5/1944-6/1944. Recollections of advance along Kohima/Imphal Road to Viswema, 6/1944: story of BBC recording made of briefing prior to attack on Japanese bunker covering road including reaction to orders given by Captain Atkins, successful approach covered by tanks, reports of suicide of Japanese soldier, circumstances behind acquisition of copy of recording; recall from reconnaissance patrol during approach to Kigwema; food and water rations; shaving; leech and lice problems; latrines; digging in at night; role as platoon officer including relationship with NCOs and ORs.
REEL 10 Account of attack at Viswema, ca 8/6/1944-14/6/1944, including situation and plans for right hook off road; running into Japanese positions as lead platoon; A Coy attack; renewal of B Coy attack; shortage of ammunition; suspension of attack; situation; reaction to possibility of posting to A Coy; situation in consolidated positions, ca 10/6/1944-14/6/1944; return to road. Recollections of period during advance into Burma, 6/1944-2/1945: baths prepared by Pioneer Platoon; question of necessity for attack at Viswema; capture of Maram; bivouacs near heavy artillery gun positions; evacuation with bronchitis and dysentery to Shillong hospital; return to unit during rest period at Kigwema.
REEL 11 Continues: leave in Bombay; drafts from Royal Artillery; question of adequacy of jungle warfare training; move into open country; question of dilution of Norfolk element in unit; return of Majors Roger Twidle and Richard Greene and their participation in impromptu concert party; unit morale; officers' mess including 'liar dice' game and opinion of various officers including Captain Sam Hornor, Major Graham Bradshaw, Major Peter Griffiths, Quartermaster Molineux, Colonel Carroll and Major William Murray Browne; erection and preservation of Kohima memorial, 10/1944; journey by lorry to Kabaw Valley, 12/1944; early Christmas celebrations, 12/1944.
REEL 12 Continues: crossing of Chindwin; signs of British retreat, 1942; move to Schwebo sector; Japanese air raid; retreat of Japanese behind Irrawaddy; examples of patrols; food supply situation; effects of heat on march. Recollections of operations at Saye, 6/2/1945-20/2/1945: situation; question of Japanese counter-attack; reconnaissance patrol including organisation of patrol, use of Sten gun, formation, forward observation officer's success in registering position of Japanese gun, question of launching attack on gun, question of quiet movement methods and debriefing; abortive attack, 9/2/1945; subsequent clash between OR and Colonel Carrol.
REEL 13 Continues: state of unit morale and question of reasons for replacement of Colonel Carrol; opinion of Colonel Murray Browne; successful attack and consolidation, 20/2/1945. Recollections of period during advance into Burma, 2/1945-4/1945: crossing Irrawaddy in DUKWs; fishing using grenades; situation; advance towards Mandalay; story of losing Bren carrier and mortar during reconnaissance patrol; situation; brief hospitalisation with concussion following attack with tank support on outskirts of Mandalay; death of Sergeant Major Partridge in last patrol. Role organising embarkation on aircraft to Kanchrapara Camp, India, 4/1945. Aspects of period in India, 4/1945-10/1945: question of training for Rangoon operations.
REEL 14 Continues: leave in Calcuttta; move to Kamreddi Camp, Secunderbhad, 6/1945; recreations; opinion of Colonel Tim Wilkins; reactions to VE Day, 8/5/1945; reactions to use of atomic bomb and VJ Day, 8/1945; visits to Secunderbhad Club; drinking habits; attitude to demobilisation; temporary role as B Coy commander; send of from Brigadier Robert Scott from Kalyan Camp. Voyage aboard Strathmore to GB, 10/1945-11/1945. Postings in GB, ca 11/1945-3/1946: meeting Twidle in London; leave in Slough; visit to Fairford; difficulties in adapting to civilian lifestyle; period as instructor at School of Infantry at Warminster; rehabilitation course; demobilisation and work in family paper products business.
REEL 15 Recollections of involvement with movement promoting reconciliation between British and Japanese veterans, 1980-1997: key initial role of Louis Allen, Hirokibo and Gwillyam Davies in initial formation of reconciliation group; attitude of Japanese veterans during initial visit of British veterans to Japan; composition of reception committee for Japanese veterans visit to GB including Major Graham Bradshaw of 2nd Bn, RNR; personal attitude to Japanese; initial introduction to Hirokibo; nature of Hirokibi's reception amongst London Section of RNR Association particularly with former POW of Japanese.
REEL 16 Continues: nature of Hirokibi's reception amongst London Section of RNR Association particularly with former POW of Japanese; Hirokibi's return to Japan, 1983-1989; anti-Japanese sentiment in GB following death of Emperor Hirohito; Japanese sponsored visit by British veterans to Japan, 1989; reception from Japanese veterans and visit to Hiroshima during visit with party of British veterans to Japan, 1991; formation and composition of Burma Campaign Fellowship Group, 1990; reception of visit of Japanese veterans and lack of co-ordination with Burma Star Association, 1992; establishment with Japanese support of Roman Catholic Cathedral at Kohima; success of VJ Day anniversary reconciliation service at Westminster Abbey, 1995.
REEL 17 Continues: question of antipathy of BSA members towards BCFG; reaction of Sam Hornor and other RNR veterans to question of reconciliation; background to predominance of officers amongst BCFG membership; question of complex personal attitude to reconciliation illustrated by laying wreath in support of ex POWs of Japanese following death of Emperor Hirohito.
ContextDescription
Military Operations, 1939-1945: Royal Norfolk Regiment
Military Operations, 1939-1945: Burma, 1942-1944
Duration
490
NumberOfParts
17
OtherFormats
None
MakerName
Franses, Maurice
ProductionCompany
IWM
MakerGender
Male
Language
English
RelatedSoundFile
Franses-remembrance.mp3
Weighting
750
900
SubThemeTag
Memorials
WebStatus
Published
UncatTransferDate
25 June 2007
URLEncodedDeptName
Sound
Access
IWM copyright
Nationality
British
DigitalAsset
Y
DeptName
Sound
IDNO
18517
ProductionDate
10/Sep/1998
ObjectType
IWM interview
IndexPeople
Smith, Stephen D xxx
Smith, James
Halter, Roman
Blake, Naomi
IndexPlaces
GB & England
IndexUnits
GB.O & Beth Shalom
DE.O & Concentration Camp, Auschwitz
IndexConcepts
Holocaust
Anti semitism
ShortSummary
British civilian founder, with his brother James Smith, of Beth Shalom Holocaust Memorial Centre, Nottinghamshire, which opened 1995
ContextDescription
Civilian Life And War Work, 1975-2005
Duration
75
NumberOfParts
3
OtherFormats
None
MakerName
Smith, Stephen David
ProductionCompany
IWM
MakerGender
Male
Language
English
RelatedIWMItems
Photograph (1998) in file
RelatedSoundFile
018517S01.mp3
Smith-remembrance.mp3
Weighting
750
900
SubThemeTag
Memorials
WebStatus
Published
UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006
URLEncodedDeptName
Sound
Access
IWM copyright
Nationality
British
DigitalAsset
Y
DeptName
Sound
IDNO
22194
ProductionDate
7/Sep/2001
ObjectType
IWM interview
IndexPeople
Arnold, Evelyn J S xxx
IndexPlaces
GB, England
PL
RO
Macedonia
Macedonia & Skopje
SB & Kosovo
SB & Pristina, Kosovo
SB & Suhareka, Kosovo
SB & Mitrovica, Kosovo
SB & Decani, Kosovo
SB & Gracanica, Kosovo
IndexUnits
GB.O & British Government, Social Security Department
UN.O & United Nations Interim Administration In Kosovo, UNMIK
NT.A & KFOR
Kosovo.A & Kosovo Liberation Army
ShortSummary
British civilian worked with United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo, UNMIK, Kosovo, 1999-2001
FullSummary
REEL 1 Various aspects of family and educational background. Aspects of period with Social Security Dept, from 1984: details of duties; changes in social security policy throughout 1980s; introduction of 'means testing'. Recollections of period as social security consultant for World Bank in Poland, Romania and Macedonia, 1991-1996: social security situation in Eastern European countries after fall of communism; duties as social security consultant; impressions of Poland and Romania; attempts of Romanians to make a good impression on western visitors; conditions in Romanian orphanages.
REEL 2 Continues: situation for Romanian orphanages; trafficking of Romanian children; reasons for high number of orphans in Romania; problems with HIV and Aids among orphans; problems with inappropriate aid sent to Romania; conditions in Romanian orphanages; types of aid needed by Romania and other such countries; problems of aid given by aid agencies that worked against official aid policy. Recollections of period with United Nations Interim Administration In Kosovo, UNMIK, 10/1999-6/2001: secondment to Kosovo, Oct/1999.
REEL 3 Continues: decision to apply for job in Kosovo; interview; obtaining report on World Bank mission to Kosovo; preparations to go to Kosovo; journey to Macedonia; journey from Skopje to Pristina; terrain; difficulties of crossing border between Macedonia and Kosovo; first impressions of Kosovo; first impressions of Pristina; conditions in UNMIK hotel; check-in procedure and briefings with UN; how new arrivals had to find their own jobs.
REEL 4 Continues: attending conferences for international workers; decision to join Social Security Dept; employment as assistant to Head of Social Security, Bridget Dommen, Geneva Hospital Trust; difficulties finding accommodation; sharing house with 3 male American UN workers; system of separate social service networks for Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo; aid work of Mother Theresa Society and Kosovar Red Cross, KKK; role of Centres for Social Work; system of social security benefits; role of World Bank.
REEL 5 Continues: setting up social security scheme; communication problems, Autumn 1999; description of five different regions in Kosovo; role of KFOR; description of four pillars of UNMIK government; pay system for Kosovan staff; problems of obtaining currency; system of social assistance payouts; role of UN volunteers; lack of office accommodation; decision to buy computer equipment for each municipality.
REEL 6 Continues: buying computers; contacts with regions and municipalities; visit to Suhareka; emergency scheme for benefit payouts; means of identifying the needy; KFOR assistance in escorting money; difficulties in implementing benefit scheme; counting and bagging up money; transporting money to municipalities; success of scheme.
REEL 7 Continues: living conditions for people in Kosovo; deserted villages destroyed during conflict; importance of extended family; reconstruction of homes; high level of unemployment; employment of unemployed in reconstruction project; move of large numbers of people to towns and impact; Kosovar Albanian culture, code of the 'Dujkini'; care of war orphans by families and neighbours; Serb culture; emigration of young Serbs from Kosovo; poverty of Serbs Mitrovica.
REEL 8 Continues: rise of criminal activity; problems with lack of security personnel; formation of Albanian police force and role of international volunteers; role of English speaking Kosovans as interpreters; transport problems; problems of communication; face to face system of contact; difficulties and delay in helping needy; formation of rules and procedure in practise; social welfare budget.
REEL 9 Continues: reaction to returning to GB for leave, Christmas 1999; winter weather conditions in Kosovo, 1/2000; shortage of electricity; wood supplies; conditions in office; problems with vermin; absence of system of rubbish disposal; plans to merge UN administration with local administration; description of two main political parties, LDK and PDK; merge of Social Welfare Dept with Health Dept; desire of Kosovans for independence; devising permanent scheme to replace Emergency Assistance Programme; recruiting Kosovan staff for Centres for Social Work.
REEL 10 Continues: role of Gary Westwater in forming social policy for children; pay situation for Kosovans; visiting Centres for Social Work; development of links between social centres and municipalities; problems of winter illnesses among International workers; KFOR decision to deliver funds to Social Centres by helicopter; story of helicopter ride around Kosovo delivering money to various regions; end of emergency assistance scheme, 4/2000 and question of it's success.
REEL 11 Continues: media interest in abandoned babies; problems of abandoned babies; adoption policy; recruitment and training of staff for Centres for Social Work; promotion to Deputy Co-Director; involvement with World Food Programme; plan to reduce Kosovan reliance on food aid; relations between UNMIK and NGOs; role of NGOs; co-ordination of work of NGOs.
REEL 12 Continues: standardisation of system; direction of resources into Serbian areas; difficulties of co-operation with social security centres in Serbian areas; setting up of group to look at needs of ethnic minorities; attitude towards Roma across Eastern Europe; attempts to provide assistance ethnic minority groups; difficulties of setting up training programmes for Serbs; lack of freedom of movement for Serbs; attempts to provide equal treatment for Serbs/Albanians.
REEL 13 Continues: war devastation of rural areas and reconstruction; KLA memorials to those killed in conflict; mass graves; reorganisation of KLA into TMK; attitude of Kosovar Albanians towards KLA; question of KLA funding; attitude towards KLA memorials; introduction of scheme of assistance to war invalids and families of those killed; attempts to set up neutral/non-politicised civil service system; tradition of patronage; attitude towards pending government elections; legacy of old socialist system; attitude towards municipal elections, 2000; US pressure for democratic elections.
REEL 14 Continues: hearing stories about conflict from Kosovan colleagues; background to conflict; relations between various ethnic groups, particularly Serbs and Albanians; attitude of Albanians towards fall of President Milosovic; influx of refugees from Presovov, 2001; border problems; influx of refugees from Macedonia, spring 2001; increase of anti-Albanian attitude in Macedonia; visits to Decani monastery.
REEL 15 Continues: Serbian churches destroyed during conflict; visit to Gracanica monastery with Jenny Wood; social life; Albanian cultural life; weddings and funerals; mine/ordnance clearance programme; sings of NATO bombing; question of precision bombing; growing use of mobile phones; improvement of communications; re-emergence of public utilities; selecting goods from South Korean catalogue of aid resources; media coverage of reconstruction.
REEL 16 Continues: use of local media by UNMIK to disseminate information; decision to leave Kosovo; achievements of Social Security Dept; improvements in mental institutions, old people's homes and social housing; question of child abuse and domestic violence; work to improve conditions at Shtime mental institution; attitude towards her work in Kosovo; relationship with colleagues.
REEL 17 Continues: leave; question of hazard pay; dangers of life in Pristina; terrorist attacks in Pristina; visa problems for International workers; question of Asylum seekers; plans to keep in touch with Kosovo.
ContextDescription
Civilian Life and War Work, 1975-2005
Duration
510
NumberOfParts
17
OtherFormats
None
MakerName
Arnold, Evelyn Jean Selby
ProductionCompany
IWM
MakerGender
Female
Language
English
RelatedIWMItems
See IWM interview with Jenny Wood on 22157
Photograph (2001) in file
RelatedSoundFile
022194S01.mp3
022194S02.mp3
Arnold-remembrance.mp3
Arnold-warandpeace.mp3
Weighting
750
900
SubThemeTag
LegaciesOfWarReconstruction
Memorials
WebStatus
Published
UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006
URLEncodedDeptName
Sound
Access
IWM copyright
Nationality
British
DigitalAsset
Y
DeptName
Sound
IDNO
22636
ProductionDate
14/Feb/2002
ObjectType
IWM interview
IndexObjects
award, British: McGregor
mine, British: Egyptian Pattern
mine, German: Teller
mine, German: S
bomb, German: Butterfly
IndexPeople
Wright, John Walker xxx
Montgomery, Bernard L
Blundell, John
Mountbatten, Louis
Wilson, Eric C T <VC>
IndexPlaces
GB, England
GB, England & Cambridge, Cambs
GB, England & Ripon, Yorks
GB, England & Aldershot, Hants
GB, England & Halifax, Yorks
IN
IN & Bombay
IN & Rookee
IN & Dimapur
IN & Kohima
IN & Rookee
IN & Deolali
EG
EG & Ruweisat Ridge
EG & Cairo
EG & Alexandria
EG & Alam Halfa
IQ
BU
BU & Bawli
BU & Arakan
BU & Hill 124
BU & Razabil
BU & Mayu Tunnels
BU & Tiddim Road
MY
MY & Johore
IndexUnits
GB.A & Royal Engineers
GB.A & Royal Engineers, Training Bn 3
GB.A & Camp, Aldershot
GB.A & Depot, Royal Engineers, Halifax
GB.O & Merchant Navy, Durban Castle
IN.A & Bengal Sappers and Miners
IN.A & Rajputs 4/7
IN.A & Punjabs, 1/1
GB.A & Bde 161
IN.A & Indian Engineers, Field Coy 2
GB.A & Indian Div 5
GB.A & Army 14
GB.A & Paiforce
GB.A & Kent Regt, West, Bn 4
IndexConcepts
Medical Services
ShortSummary
British officer served with Royal Engineers in GB, 1940-1941; served with 2nd Field Coy, Indian Engineers in Western Desert, Iraq, India and Burma, 1942-1945
FullSummary
REEL 1 Background in GB, 1922-1939: family; character of military instruction during education; expectations of coming war, 1930s. Recollections of period training with Royal Engineers in GB, 1940-1941: syllabus on Cambridge short course; manning pillboxes in Cambridge area, summer 1940; posting to 3rd Training battalion at Ripon; reasons for being placed on charge and subsequent fatigues; daily routine; example of NCO humour; method of lifting material; emphasis on physical training.
REEL 2 Continues: off duty relaxation in Ripon area; start of officer training with OCTU at Aldershot; incident when recruit injured himself during training; training syllabus; wet bridging exercises including route march; discipline in OCTU; punishment for failing to polish instep of boots; story of rebelling against authority during run; character of officers; character of training and system of assessment; sporting activities; question of posting and opting for secondment to Indian Army; reasons for boycotting passing out parade.
REEL 3 Continues: impressions of officers; move to Aldershot Command on passing out; passes provided by corporal clerk; move to Royal Engineers Depot in Halifax prior to embarkation. Aspects of voyage from GB to India aboard Durban Castle, 1941-1942: amusing story of embarking; accommodation on board; recreation; reaction to hearing news of Pearl Harbor and sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, 12/1941; naval action in Indian Ocean. Recollections of period as officer with Bengal Sappers and Miners in India, 1/1942-6/1942: arrival in Bombay; move to Rookee to join Bengal Sappers and Miners depot; introductory course for new officers; polo playing; impressions of Rookee; accommodation and social life.
REEL 4 Continues: supervising recruits and parades; learning Urdu; opinion of subhadar who held McGregor Medal; religious background of recruits; character of recruit training; sources of recruits; story of incident with Shi- ite Moslem soldier prior to Battle of El Alamein; background to posting to Egypt. Recollections of operations as officer with 2nd Field Coy, Indian Engineers 161 Bde, in Western Desert, 7/1942-12/1942: sight of General Alexander in Cairo; sight of sunken Royal Navy ships in Alexandria Harbour; joining unit at Ruweisat Ridge; Axis shelling of division; training in mine clearance; detection of mines; methods of mine laying; character of Egyptian Pattern mines and German Teller mines.
REEL 5 Continues: method of dealing with German Teller mines; opinion of Italian mines; length of time to lay mine; variation of pattern of minefield; distance from front-line on Ruweisat Ridge; bomb disposal duties; character of German Molotov Bread Basket and Butterfly Bomb; dealing with Butterfly bombs; construction of advanced headquarters; relations with unit second in command; story of being blown up in minefield whilst searching for lost Brigadier's jeep; preference for working with infantry; surveying work carried out; amusing story of advice given to senior officer; living conditions on Ruweisat Ridge; night time activities; demonstration of Bangalore torpedo.
REEL 6 Continues: reasons for move to Alam Halfa; story of meeting with General Montgomery in desert; method of passing on information to NCOs; discovery he had been smoking cannabis; sources of information; sappers interest in geneal situation; opinion of General Montgomery; impressions of General Erwin Rommel; use of mine detectors; encounter with Italian straggler with Colonel John Blundell; sight of Axis POWs; character of German S mines; effect of walking into minefield; dealing with booby traps; German device to disable flail tanks; clearing Axis minefield called 'Devil's Garden'; reaction to 4th Indian Div being placed on salvage duties after Battle of El Alamein.
REEL 7 Continues: Recollections of period as 2nd Field Coy, Indian Engineers, 5th Indian Div with Paiforce in Iraq, 1/1943- 7/1943: reasons for move to Iraq; route taken to Iraq; treatment by Iraqis after road accident; re-joining unit after hospitalisation; booby trapping entrance to camp against thieves; response of sheikh; story of aircraft damaging his jeep; further details of road journey from Egypt to Iraq; accommodation and heating system; visit from King of Iraq. Recollections of operations as officer with 2nd Field Coy, Indian Engineers, 5th Indian Div, 14th Army in Arakan, Burma, 1943- 1944: reaction to news of deployment to Burma and fighting Japanese; reaction to photographs of Japanese atrocities; story of treatment by Indian troops of civilian collaborator; attitude towards Germans and Japanese.
REEL 8 Continues: prior recollection of calling down artillery on Germans on Ruweisat Ridge; bunker busting training in Ranchi prior to deployment; character of Japanese defensive bunkers; occasion when 3.7 inch anti-aircraft gun was used against Japanese bunker; construction of mule tracks; use of mules; construction of powered raft on estuary at Bawli; story of visit by Lord Louis Mountbatten; loading capacity and operating of raft; road maintenance duties; story of catching road labour gang idling; numbers employed on labour road gang; attachment to 4/7th Rajputs.
REEL 9 Continues: patrolling on Hill 124, 26/12/1943; attack on Hill 124, 1/1/1944; role providing duckboards across chaung; construction of bridge across chaung; character of Hill 124; artillery and air support for A Coy, 4/7th Rajputs attack on Hill 124; construction of Japanese bunkers; creation of fougasse; character of Japanese bunkers; Japanese wiring of Hill 124; patrol to find route for tanks to Razabil; terrain at Razabil; effect of US Air Force bombing of Razabil; failed attempt to kill vultures with pistol.
REEL 10 Continues: use of anti-personal mines; mess facilities in the field; style of British positions; amusing contact with white Russian officer; question of overhead cover on British positions; repairing demolished bridge near Mayu Tunnels, 3/1944; incident of Japanese party getting into brigade box; move of 4th Indian Div to Dimapur, 4/1944. Recollections of operations as officer with 2nd Field Coy, Indian Engineers attached to 4th Bn Royal West Kent Regt, 4th Indian Div at Kohima, 4/1944-6/1944: contradictor orders to move to Kohima; size of perimeter at Kohima; reasons for disembarking for vehicles short of disembarkation point; treatment of soldier who went missing; comparison between Royal West Kents and Rajputs; digging of battalion headquarters and aid post.
REEL 11 Continues: character of aid post; use of engineer shovels; digging by numbers; section of defensive perimeter to hold; character of Japanese artillery and mortar fire; first casualty; degree of unit casualties; effect of destruction of hut full of flour; blowing hole in side of bakery occupied by Japanese troops; unit's covering of Japanese escaping from bakery; size of demolition parties; use of Japanese carbine to fire at fleeing Japanese; further details of Japanese artillery and mortar fire; presence of Indian National Army; character of Japanese attacks; wounding in hands; handling of wounded; casualty fatally wounded by Japanese mortaring of ambulance; rations available; effects of sleep deprivation.
REEL 12 Continues: psychological effects on one of his NCOs; views from positions at Kohima; reasons for moving at night; reasons for lack of barbed wire; visits to battalion headquarters; attempt to produce incendiary change; duties; sanitary measures taken; start of relief operations; meeting with company commander; sharing his trench with orderly; organisation of company; encounter with Eric Wilson VC; amusing story of encounter with lunatic on Assam Mail during leave; return to Kohima; repairing blown bridge in monsoon conditions. Recollections of operations as officer with 2nd Field Coy, Indian Engineers, 4th Indian Div in Burma, 1944- 1945: attachment to 1/1st Punjab Regt on Tiddim Road; effect of company commander attempt to cross river in monsoon conditions; installing ferry.
REEL 13 Continues: incident with elephant; clearing landslides; disposal of dead elephant; character of Tiddim Road; encounter with Chins during reconnaissance patrol; character of Japanese mines; Japanese use of punjis sticks; construction of airstrip, 12/1944; design and creation of memorial for 161 Bde at Kohima; move to Pegu area, 1945; operating railway using jeeps; return to Rookee as instructor on Japanese booby traps. Aspects of return to GB on Python leave, 1945: in transit at Deolali; troop train from Southampton to Halifax.
REEL 14 Continues: mail received on active service; physical condition on return home; state of health on active service; reaction to dropping of atomic bombs on Japan. Aspects of post war career from 1945: posting to Germany, 9/1945; relations with German civilians; joining Territorial Army, 1949. Aspects of period as civilian engineer in Malaya, 1951-1965: duties as state engineer in Johore including lifestyle; ambush on police boat he was travelling in; ambushed on his jeep during road journey; role as special constable; contract work for security forces; precautions taken during road travel.
ContextDescription
Military Operations, 1939-1945: Burma, 1942-1945
Duration
420
NumberOfParts
14
OtherFormats
None
MakerName
Wright, John Walker
ProductionCompany
IWM
MakerGender
Male
Language
English
RelatedIWMItems
Photograph (1945) in file
RelatedSoundFile
022636S01.mp3
Wright-remembrance.mp3
Weighting
750
900
SubThemeTag
Memorials
WebStatus
Published
UncatTransferDate
25 June 2007
URLEncodedDeptName
Sound
Access
IWM copyright
Nationality
British
DigitalAsset
Y
DeptName
Exhibits
IDNO
FEQ 408
ItemName
sign, memorial tablet, Lady Margaret Road Methodist Church
ObjectType
sign
IndexPlaces
GB & London NW5
FullSummary
The memorial lists the names of all those who died during the First World War who attended the Young Men's Bible Class of Lady Margaret Road Methodist Church.
Weighting
1
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 11:14:35
URLEncodedDeptName
Exhibits
FormatDescription
metal memorial tablet engraved as follows:
1914 1919
TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF
THE MEN OF THIS CHURCH AND SCHOOL
WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR
ZENAS E. BARNES EDWARD POWELL
WILLIAM DINGLEY HORACE RICHARD SMITH
GEOFFREY GOODHIND JAMES E. TIFFIN
LEONARD GRIFFIN WILLIAM M. WARDELL
FRANCIS S. HAMPTON R. CYRIL WARDELL
WILLIAM McLEAN FRED WOOTTON
The tablet measures 61cms by 91cms and weighs 10kg
Access
Access by prior appointment
DeptName
Film
IDNO
MGH 594
ProductionDate
1939
ItemName
MEANDERINGS IN YPRES IN 1939 (donor title) [Main]
IndexPlaces
Belgium & Ypres, West Flanders
ShortSummary
Two reels of home movies donated by Miss Enid Briggs of Broadstairs of her mother visiting Ypres in 1939.
FullSummary
Mrs Briggs had lost two sons at Ypres in the Great War and had played a prominent part in establishing war memorials in Ypres. The film is a home movie in the town of Ypres, at the Cloth Hall, the Little Gate, the Menin Gate, the British Memorial School and in British war cemeteries around the town. Most of the film is in black and white but footage regarding the Ypres Reservoir Cemetery is in colour.
ContextDescription
Documentation/associated material: see the Miss E Briggs folder for her shot sheet of reel one.
Remarks: most of this is poorly shot, jumbled and of little interest, except perhaps the colour footage.
Duration
14 mins 27 secs
Format
P 1/16/A
Colour
B&W (part Colour)
Sound
Silent
NumberOfParts
2
Dimensions
710 ft
ProductionCountry
GB
Language
None
LanguageMainTitles
None
LanguageSubtitles
None
Weighting
1
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43
URLEncodedDeptName
Film
Access
IWM
DeptName
Film
IDNO
MGH 3781
ProductionDate
1963
ItemName
FIELDS OF SACRIFICE [Main]
ShortSummary
A film revisiting the Canadian battlefields and cemeteries of World War II.
FullSummary
Tribute is paid to the Canadian dead of the two World Wars by retracing their steps in many well known theatres of war in Western Europe and the Far East, and examining the memorials and cemeteries that mark these locations today. Surviving inhabitants of towns liberated by the Canadians recall their experiences; cemeteries and war memorials are visited in many places including Hong Kong, Dieppe, Beny-sur-mer, Londonderry, Cassino, the Netherlands, Ypres (the Menin Gate) and preserved battlefields at Beaumont Hamel, Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele. Sound effects and short sequences of actuality footage of battle are used to provide stark contrast between conditions of war and peace.
ContextDescription
Remarks: cataloguing incomplete?
Duration
38 mins
Format
P 1/35/A
Colour
Colour
Sound
comopt
NumberOfParts
2
Dimensions
3447 ft
ProductionSponsor
Department of Veterans Affairs
ProductionCompany
National Film Board of Canada
ProductionTeam
Brittain, Donald: director
Brittain, Donald: producer
Brittain, Donald: script
Boyko, Eugene: director of photography
Tasker, Rex: film editor
Rathburn, Eldon: music composer
ProductionCast
Rain, Douglas: narrator
ProductionCountry
Canada
Language
English
LanguageMainTitles
English
Weighting
1
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43
URLEncodedDeptName
Film
Access
To be established
DeptName
Film
IDNO
IWM 384
ProductionDate
1919
ItemName
NURSE CAVELL'S GRAVE AND MEMORIAL [Main]
IndexEvents
First World War, Armistice & 9/1/1919
IndexObjects
buildings, German - institutional: prison
casualties, Belgian graves - formal
casualties, British graves - formal
administration, German - occupation
IndexPlaces
Belgium & Brussels, Brabant
IndexUnits
BE.A
GB.A & Australian Imperial Force
AU.A & Australian Imperial Force
ShortSummary
Various locations associated with Nurse Edith Cavell in Brussels, 9th January 1919.
FullSummary
Three Australian officers stand with a Belgian officer as escort on the balcony of the prison where Nurse Cavell was held. Next, they stand by the plaque in the prison yard marking the place where she was shot. A close-up of her grave, decorated with flowers and with Red Cross and British flags, tracking out to show other graves in the cemetery. People lay flowers at the foot of the statue of Nurse Cavell erected in the centre of Brussels. Australian soldiers and Belgian civilians hand out toys to children.
ContextDescription
Title: this is taken from the shotsheet
Production: Australian official film, among the last film taken by any of the British or Dominion camera teams
Duration
5 mins
Format
P 1/35/A
Colour
B&W
Sound
Silent
NumberOfParts
1
Dimensions
287 ft
ProductionSponsor
Australian War Records Section
ProductionTeam
Young, S H E: cameraman
ProductionCountry
Australia
Language
None
LanguageMainTitles
None
LanguageSubtitles
None
OtherReferences
AWRS(Film) Papers : File 4375/60/24
shotsheet
Weighting
1
SubThemeTag
MythsAndHeroes
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43
URLEncodedDeptName
Film
Access
IWM
DeptName
Film
IDNO
MGH 3720
ProductionDate
16/12/1922
ItemName
the UNVEILING OF THE YSTALYFERA WAR MEMORIAL, SATURDAY DECEMBER 16TH 1922 [Main]
IndexObjects
buildings, British - monumental: war memorial at Ystalyfera
ceremonies, British - event-related: war memorial unveiling
IndexPlaces
Wales & West Glamorgan & Ystalyfera
ShortSummary
"First Topical to be taken in Ystalyfera" records all sections of the local community walking towards and gathered at the unveiling of the First World War Memorial.
FullSummary
Opening title proclaims that this Topical (newsreel) is "Exclusive to this Theatre". Procession of police, civil dignitaries, soldiers, officers and ex-servicemen wearing medals leads way through village towards Memorial and is followed by local spectators including many children who look towards the camera. Before the ceremonial unveiling of the Memorial a passage from the Bible is read, then the Union Jack drape is removed and widows place wreaths at the base of the stone monument. A bugler plays the last post as the military and civilian parts of the gathering stand still to honour the dead of the Great War.
ContextDescription
Acquisition: via the Research Coordinator of the National Inventory of War Memorials
Duration
6 mins
Format
P 1/35/N
Colour
B&W
Sound
Silent
NumberOfParts
1
Dimensions
344 ft
ProductionCountry
GB
Language
None
LanguageMainTitles
English
LanguageSubtitles
None
Weighting
1
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43
URLEncodedDeptName
Film
Access
IWM
DeptName
Film
IDNO
MGH 1941
ProductionDate
1928
ItemName
WAR GRAVES MEMORIAL, SOISSONS, 1928
ShortSummary
Amateur film shot by W O Kennington of the dedication of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorial (designed by Eric Kennington) at Soissons, France.
Duration
3 mins
Format
16mm
Colour
B&W
Sound
Silent
Dimensions
100 ft
ProductionCountry
GB
Weighting
1
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43
URLEncodedDeptName
Film
Access
To be established
DeptName
Film
IDNO
ADM 423
ProductionDate
1941 (ca ?)
ItemName
AMERICAN OFFICIALS VISIT SCOTLAND [Main]
ShortSummary
Mute newsreel.
FullSummary
US civilian officials visit Robert Burn's Cottage, a distillery owned by John Walker and Sons Ltd, a steel mill, shipyards, where they witness the launching of a destroyer, Holyroodhouse Palace and Edinburgh Castle, where they view the city from the battlements and visit the National Scottish War Memorial and St Margaret's Chapel. The film ends with them admiring the Forth Railway Bridge.
Duration
6 mins
Format
35mm
Colour
B&W
Sound
Mute
NumberOfParts
1
Dimensions
500 ft
ProductionCompany
British Paramount News
ProductionCountry
GB
LanguageMainTitles
None
Weighting
1
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43
URLEncodedDeptName
Film
DeptName
Film
IDNO
MGH 4920
ProductionDate
1/12/1926
ItemName
[LORD ALLENBY UNVEILS ABERTILLERY WAR MEMORIAL [Main]
ShortSummary
Local film records the unveiling by Lord Allenby at Abertillery in Gwent, Wales of the First World War memorial sculpture designed by Captain George Thomas MC, on 1 December 1926. Troops parade, then camera surveys assembled civilians before the memorial is unveiled and dedicated, with a flag of the Welsh dragon draped against a wall in the background.
ContextDescription
Acquisition: print was contained in original tin can marked calligraphically "Film of the unveiling of Abertillery War Memorial by Lord Allenby, Dec 1st 1926. Presented by Mrs A B Dolman." Can retained for possible exhibition purposes.
Duration
3 mins
Format
35mm Nitrate
Colour
B&W
Sound
Silent
NumberOfParts
1
Dimensions
202 ft
ProductionCountry
GB
Language
None
LanguageMainTitles
English
LanguageSubtitles
None
Weighting
1
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43
URLEncodedDeptName
Film
Access
IWM
DeptName
Film
IDNO
BFA 761
ProductionDate
1/12/1997
ItemName
[KUWAIT, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1997 (TAPE 4)] [Allocated]
[BRITISH ARMY ON EXERCISES AND IN TRAINING] [Allocated Series]
ShortSummary
Scenes of the aftermath of a cluster bombing, and of a memorial plaque (at church in Kuwait) for soldiers who died in the Gulf War.
FullSummary
ARMY MOBILE NEWS TEAM SHOTLIST
(The following data has been copied, without amendment, from Army Mobile News Team computer discs.)
04-00-06-24 BARS
04-00-30-07 Scars from a Cluster bombing of a dual carriage way during the Gulf War
04-00-50-21 GV of church where a Gulf War Memorial Plaque has been hung
04-02-26-14 Memorial Plaque to Gulf War soldiers
Format
Beta SP
Colour
Colour
Sound
Sound
Dimensions
30
ProductionSponsor
Headquarters Land Command
ProductionCompany
Headquarters Land Command Mobile News Team
ProductionCountry
GB
LanguageSubtitles
English
OtherReferences
---
Weighting
1
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
06/02/2008 05:50:16
URLEncodedDeptName
Film
Access
To be established
DeptName
Printed Books
IDNO
92 / 2054
OtherNumber
1-871085-08-X
ProductionDate
1991
ItemName
White Russian awards to British and Commonwealth servicemen during the Allied intervention in Russia 1918-20
with a roll of honour
IndexPlaces
Great Britain
British Commonwealth
Russia
IndexConcepts
rolls of honour, soldiers, army units
foreign awards
foreign medals
foreign decoration and award winners
foreign rolls of honor
foreign gallantry awards
orders, decorations, medals
military operations in the russian civil war 1917-1922
war graves
cemeteries abroad
foreign cemeteries
deeds of valour
medal winners
award winners
decoration winners
heraldry in general
military operations
campaigns, military
warfare (conventional)
battles
rolls of honour
graves
cemeteries
IndexHistPeriod
1919 to end of August 1939
FullSummary
[Printed materials]
ContextDescription
pages 157-174
NumberOfParts
174 pages
Dimensions
23
MakerName
collated by Ray Brough
MakerInfo
BROUGH, RAY
ProductionCompany
Tom Donovan
ProductionCountry
London
Weighting
1
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:47:44
URLEncodedDeptName
PrintedBooks
FormatDescription
p.157-174
ISBN
1-871085-08-X
DeptName
Printed Books
IDNO
96 / 419
OtherNumber
0-9514229-4-4 (pbk.)
ProductionDate
1994
ItemName
Bear in mind these dead...
an index of deaths from the conflict in Ireland, 1969-93
IndexPlaces
Northern Ireland
Great Britain
Northern Ireland
IndexConcepts
rolls of honour, resistance workers, partisans
rolls of honour, soldiers, army units
irregular operations northern ireland
the troubles northern ireland
terrorism northern ireland
irregular operations northern ireland 1975 onwards
the troubles northern ireland 1975 onwards
terrorism northern ireland 1975 onwards
rolls of honour
guerilla and counter-surgency operations
resistance
unconventional warfare
biographies
autobiographies
diaries
letters
IndexHistPeriod
October 1945 to end of Vietnam War, 1975
1976 to the present day
FullSummary
[Printed materials]
ContextDescription
page vi
NumberOfParts
xi, 226 pages
2 maps
Dimensions
24
MakerName
edited by Malcolm Sutton
MakerInfo
SUTTON, MALCOLM
ProductionCompany
Beyond the Pale Publications
ProductionCountry
Belfast
Weighting
1
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:47:44
URLEncodedDeptName
PrintedBooks
FormatDescription
p.vi
index
ISBN
0-9514229-4-4 (pbk.)
DeptName
Printed Books
IDNO
93 / 1536
ProductionDate
1992
ItemName
[Registers of casualties Second World War, Indian Army]
IndexPlaces
India
India
IndexUnits
[ Gurkha, 1]
[ Gurkha, 2]
[ Gurkha, 3]
[ Gurkha, 4]
[ Gurkha, 5]
[ Gurkha, 6]
[ Gurkha, 7]
[ Gurkha, 8]
[ Gurkha, 9]
[ Dogra Regt., 17]
[ Garhwal Rifles, 18]
IndexConcepts
rolls of honour, soldiers, army units
indian army, infantry regiments and battalions
1 gurkha rifles
1st king george's own gurkha rifles
indian army, infantry regiments and battalions
2 gurkha rifles, goorkha rifles
2nd king edward's own gurkha rifles
indian army, infantry regiments and battalions
3 gurkha rifles, goorkha rifles
3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles
indian army, infantry regiments and battalions
4 gurkha rifles, goorkha rifles
4th prince of wales's own gurkha rifles
indian army, infantry regiments and battalions
5 gurkha rifles, goorkha rifles
5th royal gurkha rifles (frontier force)
indian army, infantry regiments and battalions
6 gurkha rifles, goorkha rifles
6th queen elizabeth's own gurkha rifles
indian army, infantry regiments and battalions
7 gurkha rifles, goorkha rifles
7th duke of edinburgh's own gurkha rifles
indian army, infantry regiments and battalions
8 gurkha rifles, goorkha rifles
8th gurkha rifles
indian army, infantry regiments and battalions
9 gurkha rifles, goorkha rifles
9th gurkha rifles
indian army, infantry regiments and battalions
17 dogra regiment
17th dogra regiment
indian army, infantry regiments and battalions
18 garhwal rifles
rolls of honour
military unit histories
armed forces in general
armies
biographical
IndexHistPeriod
Second World War
FullSummary
[Printed materials]
Volumes include:-
1st King George V's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Malaun Regiment)
2nd King Edward VII's Own Goorkha Rifles [sic] (The Sirmoor Rifles)
3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles
4th Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles
5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force)
6th Gurkha Rifles
7th Gurkha Rifles
8th Gurkha Rifles
9th Gurkha Rifles
17th Dogra Regiment
18th Royal Garhwal Rifles
NB 1 vol. missing - 10th Gurkha Rifles
ContextDescription
Volumes include:-
1st King George V's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Malaun Regiment)
2nd King Edward VII's Own Goorkha Rifles [sic] (The Sirmoor Rifles)
3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles
4th Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles
5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force)
6th Gurkha Rifles
7th Gurkha Rifles
8th Gurkha Rifles
9th Gurkha Rifles
17th Dogra Regiment
18th Royal Garhwal Rifles
NB 1 vol. missing - 10th Gurkha Rifles
NumberOfParts
11 vols. (41; 43; 58; 54; 79; 54; 54; 44; 51; [69]p.)
Dimensions
30
MakerName
[compiled by A. Nath]
MakerInfo
NATH, A.
ProductionCompany
Himalayan Institute
ProductionCountry
Stockholm
Weighting
1
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
10/08/2007 05:50:21
URLEncodedDeptName
PrintedBooks
DeptName
Printed Books
IDNO
92 / 671
OtherNumber
K
ProductionDate
[1982]
ItemName
The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Falkland Memorial Service
held at Aldershot on Friday 1st October 1982...
order of service and roll of honour
IndexPlaces
Great Britain
Great Britain
UK
IndexUnits
[ Parachute Regt.]
IndexConcepts
rolls of honour, soldiers, army units
entertainment, recreation
public festivals
army, parachute troops, paratroopers
rolls of honour
entertainment
sport
leisure activities
military unit histories
armed forces in general
armies
ephemeral material
documents
official forms
press cuttings
biographies
autobiographies
diaries
letters
IndexHistPeriod
1976 to the present day
FullSummary
[Printed materials]
Pbk
ContextDescription
Pbk
NumberOfParts
[9] pages
Dimensions
26
MakerInfo
PARACHUTE REGIMENT...
ProductionCompany
Pegasus Press
ProductionCountry
Aldershot
Weighting
1
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:47:44
URLEncodedDeptName
PrintedBooks
DeptName
Printed Books
IDNO
K. 84 / 450
ProductionDate
1953
ItemName
A record of the activities of the British Community in the Argentine Republic during the 1939-1945 War
IndexPlaces
Argentina
South America
Great Britain
IndexConcepts
rolls of honour, general
groups determined by race or nationality
racial groups
ethnic groups
ethnic minorities
rolls of honour
social groups
IndexHistPeriod
Second World War
FullSummary
[Printed materials]
Unbound photocopy taken from the original
ContextDescription
Unbound photocopy taken from the original
NumberOfParts
[35] leaves
Dimensions
23
MakerName
issued by the British Community Council in the Argentine Republic
MakerInfo
BRITISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL, ARGENTINA
ProductionCompany
British Community Council
ProductionCountry
Buenos Aires
Weighting
1
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:47:44
URLEncodedDeptName
PrintedBooks
DeptName
Printed Books
IDNO
37014
ProductionDate
1948
ItemName
Quislings honsegard
Berg interneringsleir
IndexPlaces
Germany
Norway
Germany
Jews
Norway
Norway
IndexUnits
[ Berg Concentration Camp, Norway]
IndexConcepts
individual german concentration camps
individual german extermination camps
concentration camps, german, individual
extermination camps, german, individual
alleged and actual atrocities committed by one nation against nationals of another
alleged atrocities and atrocities committed against racial groups
alleged and actual atrocities committed against jews in norway
the holocaust in norway
holocaust, norway
rolls of honour, holocaust victims, atrocity victims
poetry
verse
anthologies of poems
breaches of international law
atrocities
crimes against humanity
rolls of honour
poetry
IndexHistPeriod
Second World War
FullSummary
[Printed materials]
NumberOfParts
295p.
ill., figs., plans, ports.
Dimensions
25
MakerName
[redaksjon: Carl Haave, Sverre J. Herstad]
MakerInfo
HAAVE, CARL
HERSTAD, SVERRE J.
ProductionCompany
Alb. Cammermeyers Forlag
ProductionCountry
Oslo
Language
Norwegian
Weighting
1
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:47:44
URLEncodedDeptName
PrintedBooks
DeptName
Printed Books
IDNO
82 / 3202
ProductionDate
[1920]
ItemName
Commemoration book, 1914-1919 and official handbook, season 1919-20
IndexPlaces
Great Britain
Yorkshire
Great Britain
UK
Yorkshire
IndexConcepts
rolls of honour, entertainers, sportsmen
sport
entertainment
rolls of honour, local history, towns, villages
entertainment, recreation
sport
rugby union
local history
entertainment
sport
leisure activities
rolls of honour
[ Yorkshire (roll of honour)]
IndexHistPeriod
First World War
FullSummary
[Printed materials]
Cover title : "In memoriam 1914-19"
ContextDescription
Cover title : "In memoriam 1914-19"
NumberOfParts
16p. of plates
ill., frontis., ports.
Dimensions
21
MakerName
Yorkshire Rugby Football Union
MakerInfo
YORKSHIRE RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION
ProductionCompany
Yorkshire Rugby Football Union
ProductionCountry
N.p.
Weighting
1
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:47:44
URLEncodedDeptName
PrintedBooks
DeptName
Printed Books
IDNO
809
ProductionDate
1921
ItemName
Bank of New South Wales roll of honour
IndexPlaces
Australia
Australia
IndexUnits
[ Bank of New South Wales]
IndexConcepts
rolls of honour, private finance, bankers
private finance
banks
banking
rolls of honour
banking
private finance
biographies
autobiographies
diaries
letters
IndexHistPeriod
First World War
FullSummary
[Printed materials]
NumberOfParts
418p.
frontis., ports.
Dimensions
29
MakerInfo
BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES ROLL OF HONOUR
ProductionCompany
Bank of New South Wales
ProductionCountry
Sydney, N.S.W.
Weighting
1
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:47:44
URLEncodedDeptName
PrintedBooks
DeptName
Printed Books
IDNO
K. 4024
ProductionDate
1925
ItemName
The roll of honour of British Librarians
SubTitle
The Library Association record pamphlets; no. 1
IndexPlaces
Great Britain
UK
Great Britain
IndexUnits
[ Library Association]
IndexConcepts
rolls of honour, museum workers, librarians
libraries, archives and museums, organisations
memorials, museums and libraries
rolls of honour
museums, libraries and archives
memorials
[ Library Association (roll of honour)]
[ Library Association (memorial)]
IndexHistPeriod
First World War
FullSummary
[Printed materials]
Supplement to 'The Library Association Record'; no. 9 (vol. III, new series), March 1925
Contains tipped in compliments slip from the Library Association
ContextDescription
Supplement to 'The Library Association Record'; no. 9 (vol. III, new series), March 1925
Contains tipped in compliments slip from the Library Association
NumberOfParts
28p.
frontis.
Dimensions
27
MakerInfo
LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
LIBRARY ASSOCIATION RECORD PAMPHLETS; NO. 1
ROLL OF HONOUR OF BRITISH LIBRARIANS
ProductionCompany
Library Association
ProductionCountry
London
Weighting
1
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:47:44
URLEncodedDeptName
PrintedBooks
FormatDescription
The Library Association record pamphlets; no. 1
DeptName
Printed Books
IDNO
83 / 2560
OtherNumber
K
ProductionDate
1929
ItemName
Grangethorpe Hospital roll of honour of patients who died between the years 1918-1929 as a result of wounds received in the Great War
IndexPlaces
Great Britain
Great Britain
UK
IndexUnits
[ Grangethorpe Hospital]
IndexConcepts
rolls of honour, schools, civil defence, hospitals
civilian hospitals
civil hospitals
rolls of honour
public services
[ Grangethorpe Hospital (roll of honour)]
biographies
autobiographies
diaries
letters
IndexHistPeriod
1919 to end of August 1939
FullSummary
[Printed materials]
NumberOfParts
[16] pages
Dimensions
25
MakerInfo
GRANGETHORPE HOSPITAL ROLL OF HONOUR OF PATIENTS WHO DIED BETWEEN THE YEARS 1918-1929 AS A RESULT OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN THE GREAT WAR
MINISTRY OF PENSIONS
ProductionCompany
Ministry of Pensions
ProductionCountry
Manchester
Weighting
1
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:47:44
URLEncodedDeptName
PrintedBooks
DeptName
Photographs
IDNO
GLF 1455
ProductionDate
1992
ProductionPeriod
1976 - 2000
ItemName
THE BRITISH ROYAL ORDNANCE CONTRACT BOMB DISPOSAL TEAMS DURING CLEARUP OPERATIONS IN KUWAIT FOLLOWING THE GULF WAR, 1991-1992
ObjectType
Amateur photograph
SubTitle
HOLLAND MIKE COLLECTION
IndexPlaces
Kuwait
IndexConcepts
Commemoration
IndexHistPeriod
1976 - 2000
ShortSummary
A Kuwaiti memorial celebrating the liberation of Kuwait.
Colour
Colour
CopyrightStatus
Private copyright
MakerName
Holland, Mike
RelatedImageFile
Image/GLF_001455.jpg
Weighting
900
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
08/08/2007 05:50:57
URLEncodedDeptName
Photographs
Access
Unrestricted
IndexPlace
Kuwait
IndexEvent
Iraq War 1991
Theme
Gulf War 1990-1991
CoLStatus
Published
PhotoCollRef
9508-09
DigitalAsset
Y
IWMImageOwned
Y
DeptName
Photographs
IDNO
MW 67
ProductionDate
November 1946
ProductionPeriod
Second World War
ItemName
THE NEW INSCRIPTION ON THE CENOTAPH IN LONDON UNVEILED BY HM KING GEORGE VI, 1946
ObjectType
Official photograph
SubTitle
MINISTRY OF WORKS SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION
IndexPlaces
London, England, UK
IndexConcepts
Commemoration
IndexHistPeriod
Second World War
ShortSummary
This simple inscription in Roman numerals denoting 1939-1945 has been inscribed on each side, thus making the Cenotaph a memorial to the fallen in the two world wars
Colour
Black and white
CopyrightStatus
Crown copyright
RelatedImageFile
Image/MW_000067.jpg
Weighting
900
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
08/08/2007 05:50:57
URLEncodedDeptName
Photographs
FormatDescription
Official photograph
Access
Unrestricted
IndexPlace
London, England, UK
Theme
Great Britain post-1945
CoLStatus
Published
PhotoCollRef
5608-13
DigitalAsset
Y
IWMImageOwned
Y
DeptName
Photographs
IDNO
Q 48872A
ProductionPeriod
Interwar
ItemName
WAR MEMORIALS IN BRITAIN AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR
ObjectType
Official photograph
SubTitle
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM WAR MEMORIALS COLLECTION
IndexPlaces
Kew, Surrey, England, UK
IndexConcepts
Commemoration
IndexHistPeriod
Interwar
ShortSummary
War Memorial at Kew.
Colour
Black and white
CopyrightStatus
Crown copyright
RelatedImageFile
Image/Q_048872_A.jpg
Weighting
900
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
08/08/2007 05:50:57
URLEncodedDeptName
Photographs
FormatDescription
Official photograph
Access
Unrestricted
IndexPlace
Kew, Surrey, England, UK
Theme
Great Britain 1919-1939
CoLStatus
Published
PhotoCollRef
2800-03
DigitalAsset
Y
IWMImageOwned
Y
DeptName
Photographs
IDNO
Q 45870
ProductionDate
1927
ProductionPeriod
Interwar
ItemName
WAR MEMORIALS IN BELGIUM
ObjectType
Official photograph
SubTitle
FFOULKES CHARLES (MAJOR) COLLECTION
IndexPlaces
Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium
IndexConcepts
Commemoration
Architecture
IndexHistPeriod
Interwar
ShortSummary
The Menin Gate in Ypres.
Colour
Black and white
CopyrightStatus
Crown copyright
MakerName
Ffoulkes Charles (Major)
RelatedImageFile
Image/Q_045870.jpg
Weighting
900
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
08/08/2007 05:50:57
URLEncodedDeptName
Photographs
Access
Unrestricted
IndexPlace
Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium
IndexPlaceDetail
Menin Gate
Theme
Western Front 1914-1918
CoLStatus
Published
PhotoCollRef
2709-03
DigitalAsset
Y
IWMImageOwned
Y
DeptName
Photographs
IDNO
Q 45811
ProductionPeriod
Interwar
ItemName
WAR MEMORIALS IN LONDON
ObjectType
Official photograph
SubTitle
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVE COLLECTION
IndexPeople
Cavell, Edith L
IndexPlaces
London, England, UK
IndexConcepts
Commemoration
IndexHistPeriod
Interwar
ShortSummary
The Nurse Cavell memorial at Charing Cross, London.
Colour
Black and white
CopyrightStatus
Imperial War Museum copyright
MakerName
Nicholls Horace
RelatedImageFile
Image/Q_045811.jpg
Weighting
900
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
08/08/2007 05:50:57
URLEncodedDeptName
Photographs
FormatDescription
Official photograph
Access
Unrestricted
IndexPlace
London, England, UK
IndexPlaceDetail
Charing Cross
Theme
Great Britain 1919-1939
CoLStatus
Published
PhotoCollRef
1900-07
DigitalAsset
Y
IWMImageOwned
Y
DeptName
Photographs
IDNO
HU 24390
ProductionPeriod
Second World War
ItemName
PRISONERS OF WAR IN THE FAR EAST DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
ObjectType
photograph
SubTitle
LAZENBY R COLLECTION
IndexPlaces
Tamarkan, Thailand
IndexConcepts
Prisoners
Commemoration
IndexHistPeriod
Second World War
ShortSummary
Close-up of the inscription on the memorial constructed by prisoners of war at Tamarkan - "In Memory of Deceased Prisoners of War 1944".
Colour
Black and white
CopyrightStatus
Private copyright
RelatedImageFile
Image/HU_024390.jpg
Weighting
900
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
08/08/2007 05:50:57
URLEncodedDeptName
Photographs
Access
Unrestricted
IndexPlace
Tamarkan, Thailand
IndexEvent
Allied Prisoners of War Far East 1939-1945, Internment
Theme
Internment
Prisoners of War, Far East 1939-1945
CoLStatus
Published
PhotoCollRef
7411-18
DigitalAsset
Y
IWMImageOwned
Y
DeptName
Photographs
IDNO
FKD 3144
ProductionDate
1982
ProductionPeriod
1976 - 2000
ItemName
COMMEMORATIVE VISIT TO THE FALKLAND ISLANDS BY RELATIVES OF BRITISH CASUALTIES OF THE FALKLANDS WAR, 1982
ObjectType
Official photograph
SubTitle
SURFACE FLOTILLA PHOTOGRAPHIC UNIT (SFPU) ARCHIVE: FALKLANDS CONFLICT COLLECTION
IndexPlaces
Falkland Islands
IndexUnits
British Army, Welsh Guards
IndexConcepts
Casualties
Commemoration
Death
IndexHistPeriod
1976 - 2000
ShortSummary
Wreaths laid in front of the memorial to members of the Welsh Guards killed in the Falklands War.
ContextDescription
255 British servicemen were killed during the Falklands War in 1982. This was the first opportunity for their relatives to visit the area after the War ended in July 1982.
Colour
Colour
CopyrightStatus
Crown copyright
MakerName
Royal Navy official photographer
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Image/FKD_003144.jpg
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900
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
18/11/2008 05:52:02
URLEncodedDeptName
Photographs
FormatDescription
Official photograph
Access
Unrestricted
IndexPlace
Falkland Islands
IndexEvent
Falklands Conflict
Theme
Falklands Conflict 1982
British Army 1945-2000
CoLStatus
Ready
PhotoCollRef
9912-02
DigitalAsset
Y
IWMImageOwned
Y
DeptName
Photographs
IDNO
Q 14959
ProductionDate
11 November 1920
ProductionPeriod
Interwar
ItemName
UNVEILING OF THE CENOTAPH AND FUNERAL OF THE UNKNOWN WARRIOR, ARMISTICE DAY 1920
ObjectType
Official photograph
SubTitle
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVE COLLECTION
IndexPlaces
London, England, UK
IndexConcepts
Commemoration
Ceremony
IndexHistPeriod
Interwar
ShortSummary
The Cenotaph prior to its unveiling on Armistice Day, 1920.
Colour
Black and white
CopyrightStatus
Crown copyright
MakerName
Crane Arthur
RelatedImageFile
Image/Q_014959.jpg
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900
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
08/08/2007 05:50:57
URLEncodedDeptName
Photographs
Access
Unrestricted
IndexPlace
London, England, UK
IndexPlaceDetail
Whitehall
IndexEvent
Remembrance Sunday, Ceremonies
Theme
Great Britain 1919-1939
CoLStatus
Published
PhotoCollRef
1907-14
DigitalAsset
Y
IWMImageOwned
Y
DeptName
Photographs
IDNO
FKD 3139
ProductionDate
April 1983
ProductionPeriod
1976 - 2000
ItemName
THE FALKLANDS CONFLICT, APRIL - JUNE 1982
ObjectType
Official photograph
SubTitle
SURFACE FLOTILLA PHOTOGRAPHIC UNIT (SFPU) ARCHIVE: FALKLANDS CONFLICT COLLECTION
IndexPlaces
San Carlos Bay, Falkland Islands
IndexConcepts
Commemoration
Death
IndexHistPeriod
1976 - 2000
ShortSummary
Wreaths laid by relatives of British casualties at the Falklands War Memorial at San Carlos.
ContextDescription
255 British servicemen were killed during the Falklands War in 1982. This was the first opportunity for their relatives to visit the area after the War ended in July 1982.
Colour
Colour
CopyrightStatus
Crown copyright
MakerName
Royal Navy official photographer
RelatedImageFile
Image/FKD_003139.jpg
Weighting
900
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
18/11/2008 05:52:02
URLEncodedDeptName
Photographs
FormatDescription
Official photograph
Access
Unrestricted
Nationality
British
IndexPlace
San Carlos Bay, Falkland Islands
IndexEvent
Falklands Conflict
Theme
Falklands Conflict 1982
British Army 1945-2000
CoLStatus
Ready
PhotoCollRef
9912-02
DigitalAsset
Y
IWMImageOwned
Y
DeptName
Art
IDNO
IWM ART 4207
ProductionDate
1919
ProductionPeriod
Interwar
ItemName
Model of The Cenotaph
ObjectType
sculpture
IndexConcepts
memorial
commemorative
architecture
peace / victory celebrations
IndexHistPeriod
Interwar
FullSummary
Lutyens was first approached informally by Sir Alfred Mond, First Commissioner of Works in Lloyd George’s government in June 1919, to design a monument to mark the signing of the Peace Treaty with Germany. Following discussions with Clemenceau and the Peace Celebrations Committee, Lloyd George met Lutyens in early July 1919 and asked him to design a catafalque for Whitehall, to be part of the Peace Day events on 19th July. Lutyens’ alternative suggestion of a cenotaph was agreed. Later that day Lutyens presented drawings to Sir Frank Baines, based on his previous design for Mond.
The final design was based on measurements of the Parthenon. In the classical manner, all the surfaces were subtly curved; the verticals would meet at a point 1000 feet above the ground and the horizontals, 900 feet to the side. Stripped of all literal elements (at Lutyens insistence four soldiers at the base were not included), the simplicity and dignity of the monument became the immediate focus for national grief.
The wood and plaster structure was unveiled on 18th July and was originally intended to stand for a week. Its extraordinary popularity extended this to January 1920 when the weather finally forced its removal. In the meantime, this design, slightly revised from the original, was accepted by the Cabinet for a permanent memorial, again sited in Whitehall and unveiled on Armistice Day, 1920. The Cenotaph remains the central focus of remembrance.
The painted details in plasticine were made by Professor Derwent Wood, RA.
ContextDescription
A three dimensional model of the Cenotaph.
Format
wood
painted plasticine
metal foil
Dimensions
882 mm
704 mm
542 mm
CopyrightStatus
artist's estate
MakerName
Lutyens, Edwin Sir PRA
ProductionCompany
Professor Derwent Wood, RA
AcquisitionMethod
gift
CreditLine
Gift of the artist, 1924
AcquisitionDate
1924
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web1art/4207.jpg
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Memorials
UncatTransferDate
13/06/2007 05:50:45
URLEncodedDeptName
Art
FormatDescription
sculpture
AuthorityLink
Lutyens, Edwin Sir PRA
DigitalAsset
Y
DeptName
Art
IDNO
IWM ART 5734
ProductionDate
1927
ProductionPeriod
Interwar
ItemName
Maquette for the Soissons Memorial to the Missing
ObjectType
sculpture
IndexConcepts
commemorative
types
memorial
military personnel
IndexHistPeriod
Interwar
FullSummary
Called locally the 'Soissons Trinity' the Soissons Memorial commemorates the 3987 British soldiers who fell in the battles of the Aisne and the Marne and have no known grave. The Memorial was commissioned by the Imperial War Graves Commission. It was was the second official British memorial to be erected on the Western Front. The architects G. H. Hold and V. O. Rees designed the surrounding structure and on their recommendation Kennington was commissioned to make the three figures for the centre front. Allan Howes designed the friezes on either side. The memorial was unveiled on 22 July 1928 by Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon.
ContextDescription
whole: Three British soldiers in battle uniform with their kit standing in a row.
Format
plaster
Dimensions
704 mm
571 mm
279 mm
CopyrightStatus
IWM
MakerName
Kennington, Eric Henri RA
ProductionCountry
Great Britain
AcquisitionMethod
gift
AcquisitionNote
Memorial commissioned by the Imperial War Graves Commission
AcquisitionDate
1980
RelatedImageFile
web1art/5734.jpg
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
13/06/2007 05:50:45
URLEncodedDeptName
Art
FormatDescription
sculpture
AuthorityLink
Kennington, Eric Henri RA
DigitalAsset
N
IWMImageOwned
Y
DeptName
Art
IDNO
IWM ART 16490
ProductionDate
1917
ProductionPeriod
First World War
ItemName
Study for a Memorial to T E Hulme, 1917
ObjectType
drawing
IndexPeople
Hulme, T. E.
IndexConcepts
memorial
weapons
IndexHistPeriod
First World War
FullSummary
Sketch for a memorial to T E Hulme, killed at Nieuport, 1917. The memorial was never actually built. T E Hulme was a major influence on the thinking and work of the Vorticist movement as well as an active patron. He was particularly supportive of Bomberg and the design for the memorial was an acknowledgement of this.
ContextDescription
image: The design for a memorial. The relief on the memorial is a crouching figure looking upwards. A soldier in full kit stands to the right, his hands resting on his rifle butt, looking downwards.
text: HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR PRIVATE T E HULME
Format
ink
pencil
Support
paper
Dimensions
224 mm
155 mm
CopyrightStatus
artist's estate
MakerName
Bomberg, David
ProductionCountry
Great Britain
Language
English
AcquisitionMethod
purchase
AcquisitionDate
1993
RelatedImageFile
web1art/2106-41.jpg
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
13/06/2007 05:50:45
URLEncodedDeptName
Art
FormatDescription
drawing
AuthorityLink
Bomberg, David
DigitalAsset
Y
DeptName
Art
IDNO
IWM ART 16644
ProductionDate
1997
ProductionPeriod
1976 - 2000
ItemName
Counting the Cost - A memorial sculpture for the American Air Museum, Duxford
ObjectType
sculpture
IndexConcepts
memorial
aircraft
military personnel
IndexHistPeriod
1976 - 2000
ContextDescription
image: A memorial sculpture in glass which lines the route to the entrance of the American Air Museum, Duxford. The sculpture comprises 52 panels engraved with the outlines of aircraft, one for each plane missing in action in operations flown by American air forces from Britain during the Second World War. 7,031 aircraft are depicted, and are displayed by Air Force groups or group. The actual scale of the aircraft in the sculpture is 1:240.
Format
glass
steel
CopyrightStatus
IWM
MakerName
Niemis, Renato
AcquisitionMethod
commission
AcquisitionNote
Artistic Records Committee commission
RelatedImageFile
web1art/16644.jpg
SubThemeTag
Memorials
UncatTransferDate
13/06/2007 05:50:45
URLEncodedDeptName
Art
FormatDescription
sculpture
AuthorityLink
Niemis, Renato
DigitalAsset
N
IWMImageOwned
Y