Navy 5 videosJoan Endersby
One of the most hilarious interviews I’ve ever recorded. Joan was such a fun lady to spend time with.
- Navy 14 videos
Edward Wells
Ted Wells provides a fascinating and detailed account of his lengthy spell at sea on numerous ships during the Second World War....
- Navy 5 videos
Pam Torrens
Pam Torrens was a special duties Naval linguist based primarily at Abott's Cliff and Ventnor. Trained at Southfields in London, her job...
- Army 6 videos
Leslie Fernandez
Leslie Fernandez was a fit man when he was young. He loved sports and was good at them. Exactly the sort of...
- Navy 6 videos
William Sheppard
William Sheppard provides a detailed and interesting account of his time as a Gunner on the mine sweeper HMS Onyx.
- Navy 5 videos
Betty Dobson
Betty Dobson provides some wonderful colour to her interview which details her life as a Leading Wren in Donibristle, Scotland.
- Navy 14 videos
Admiral William O’Brien
Admiral Sir William O’Brien provides Legasee with a wonderful interview about his distinguished Naval career. He was involved in many significant moments...
- Navy 7 videos
Jim Dimond
Jim Dimond joined the Royal Navy in 1942. He had an eventful career which included a torpedo sinking, a stint onboard a...
- 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...
- Navy 8 videos
John Edwards
John Edwards gives a great account of his 5 years as an apprentice in the merchant navy. Witnessing ships sinking all around...
- Navy 12 videos
Cornelius Snelling
Cornelius Snelling served on the Black Swan-class sloop HMS Wildgoose. The Wildgoose was one of several ships that took part in the...
- Navy 7 videos
Harry Allen
Harry Allen was a boy sailor when he joined HMS Jamaica. He sailed on the Russian Convoys and recalls the battle with...
- 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...
- 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...
- Civilian 5 videos
Rodney Newnham
Rodney Newham lives in the RNBT’s Pembroke House in Gillingham. In the war he worked as a boiler maker in the Chatham...
- Navy 5 videos
John Woodward
John Woodward worked on a Minesweeper during WWII. Operating out of the Thames estuary his skipper was a wily fellow who used...
- 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...
- Civilian 8 videos
Joy Lofthouse
Joy Lofthouse flew Spitfires with the ATA during WWII. In her interview she shares details about her training, her ambitions in life...
- Navy 9 videos
Edward Rogers
Ted Rogers sailed was an apprentice boy when he set sail with the Merchant navy. On his first voyage a U-boat attack...
- 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...
- 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...
- Airforce 6 videos
Lyle Thomson
Lyle recounts his distinguished career in the RAF from the fifties through to the Falklands. His focus is on his time in...
- 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...
- 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...
- Airforce 10 videos
Jimmy Taylor
Fantastic interview with Spitfire photo reconnaissance pilot who survives an engine failure over Holland.
- 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...
- Navy 10 videos
Jack Thomas
Jack Thomas provides a brilliant account of his service as a Fleet Air Arm pilot with 836 Squadron. He survived numerous crashes...
- Army 8 videos
Jean Argles
Jean Argles worked as a Cipher Operator in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY). In this fascinating and detailed interview she reflects...
- Navy 6 videos
Pete Dunning
Pete Dunning was a Royal Marines Commando. He provides a fascinating detailed account of his training, service and life after he sustains...
