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Civilian 14 videos
Daphne Park
Daphne Margaret Sybil Désirée Park, Baroness Park of Monmouth joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) in 1943. During the selection process...
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Navy 6 videos
Marsie Taylor
Marsie Taylor worked as a Wren Writer initially at Norfolk House in central London and then at Southwark in Portsmouth. Her work...
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Navy 7 videos
Joan Field
Joan Field was a WREN stationed at a very remote signal station overlooking the Firth of Lorne in Scotland. Her job was...
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Navy 7 videos
Jonni Berfield
Jonni Berfield was a coder for the Royal Navy. She was working in Plymouth when the Scharnhorst was sunk and recalls the...
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Navy 9 videos
Irene Bellamy
Irene Bellamy provides an entertaining and detailed account of her service in the Wrens. Before D-Day had even taken place, she was...
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Navy 7 videos
Fred Estall
Fred Estall gives a good account of his life as a Gunner onboard a Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships [DEMS]. Unlike other navvy...
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Navy 11 videos
James Pitts
James Pitts provides a fascinating and detailed account of his life as an Fleet Air Arm Air Gunner with 856 Squadron. He...
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Navy 7 videos
Alfred Fowler
Alfred ‘Chick’ Fowler gives a very detailed account of his time spent as a Stoker on HMS Sheffield.
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Navy 10 videos
Charles Chirgwin
RMS Queen Elizabeth was one of the very first Merchant ships to be fitted with the then highly secretive RADAR [Queen Mary...
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Airforce 4 videos
Ralph Tyrrell
Ralph Tyrell gives an amazing account of life as a 20 year old bomb aimer. '..it was my job to go and...
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Army 12 videos
George Reynolds
George Reynolds was captured during the fall of Singapore and sent to work in the copper mines at Kinkaseki in Taiwan. In...
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Navy 11 videos
John Roche
John Roche served on HMS Renown throughout most of the war. He gives a fabulous account of himself and provides a fascinating...
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Airforce 6 videos
Ken French
Ken is one of those increasingly rare birds, a Bomber Command Navigator. What makes his story all the more remarkable is that...
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Navy 9 videos
Mervyn Salter
Mervyn Salter gives a great account of his life at sea on HMS Saumerz. Operating in both the Arctic and the Pacific...
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Navy 8 videos
Albert Malin
From loading LCTs on the build up to D Day, to being adrift in the Barents Sea on Convoy RA63, Albert Malin...
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Airforce 7 videos
Tony Iveson
Tony Iveson gives a truly amazing account of his distinguished career in the RAF. He was one of the few pilots to...
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Airforce 11 videos
Fred Danckwardt
During World War II, Fred Danckwardt survived 45 Operations with Bomber Command. He then returned to help on the Berlin Airlift. He...
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Navy 8 videos
Stan Hoare
Stan Hoare was one of a series of Veterans we interviewed when we visited the Royal Naval Benevolent Trust’s Care Home, Pembroke...
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Navy 7 videos
Joe Pitcher
Joe Pitcher was a DEMS gunner on many Merchant ships. That he survived was more down to luck than judgment but it...
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Navy 7 videos
James Bisiker
Jimmy Bisiker was a Royal Marine with 40 Commando in 1947/48. He gives a great account of his service and recalls the...
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Army 10 videos
Reg Charles
Reg Charles provides an outstanding account of his time in the 1st Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Although he missed...
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Army 3 videos
Paul Lewis
Paul Lewis was one of the first British military casualties of the Iraq War. He’s still struggling to cope with both the...
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Navy 9 videos
Don Maclean
In 1995, Don Maclean joined the Royal Marines as a reservist. He served with 45 Commando and on a routine patrol in...
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Army 3 videos
John Booth
John Booth joined the Royal Signals as a Wireless Operator/ line… and served in Korea.
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Navy 11 videos
Gordon Payne
Gordon Payne’s interview is one of a number we have recorded with surviving 41 [Independent] Royal Marines Commando. He gives a detailed...
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Army 4 videos
Bernard Barker
Bernard Barker served in Korea with the 1st Royal Tank Regiment. Ground conditions were tough on tanks and most of the time...
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Navy 6 videos
Ron Smith.
As a Royal Marine Commando Ron Smith was in Korea at the very start of the Korean conflict. Undertaking dangerous night raids...
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Airforce 6 videos
Mary Overill
Mary Overill gives a wonderful interview about her life with the WAAF. As a Devonian, country girl, the war provided opportunities and...
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Army 2 videos
Daphne Brookes
After leaving school in 1940, Daphne Brookes-Young worked with the St Johns Ambulance Brigade up until the age of 17, when she...