Oral History recordings of memories of World War One by people from Wolverton and New Bradwell.
Photograph of Hawtin Mundy
Oral History recordings of memories of World War One by people from Wolverton and New Bradwell. It includes memories of people who served and fought in the army as well as those who remained behind and worked or were children at the time. The majority were recorded in 1980 as part of the Days of Pride project.
Extent
36 recordings
Reference number
DOP/001
Records in this Group
Interview with Mrs Marjorie Cook (nee Meacham) and Mr George Cook. Mr and Mrs Cook remember life as children during WW1 including the arrival of Belgium refugees; holiday in Linford Wood; the work of women and men still in England; manoeuvres of 1913 at Stacey Hill farm and impromptu concerts by locals; disillusionment with ...
Interview with Frank Gillard. Joined up in September 1914, trained on Salisbury Plain in 78th Brigade. Most of the men from Wolverton were in ‘D’ Company in Oxford and Bucks Battalion. Talks about training and his feelings being in the army; sport; life in the trenches and the occupation of Salonika, Macedonia. ...
Interview with Frank Gillard. Covers the occupation in Salonika, Macedonia; discipline and court marshals; desertions; shell shock; carrying out first aid on wounded men; his time in hospital suffering from malaria.
Oral history recording of his memories by Hawtin Mundy. Mr Mundy was a prisoner of war in East Prussia. Covers work they were hired to do; brutality by guards; food; arrival of Red Cross parcels and letters and the difference it made to the standing and quality of life of the British prisoners ...
Oral history recording of his memories by Hawtin Mundy. Mr Mundy was a prisoner of war in East Prussia. Covers plans to escape; Easter party in 1918 in Domnuu; working on a farm and as a cobbler; He also remembers time in the trenches in the Somme and Arras; court marshals ...
Oral history recording of his memories by Hawtin Mundy. Mr Mundy was a prisoner of war in East Prussia. Covers return to England from PoW camp and demobbing at Ripon, Yorkshire.
Interview with Hawtin Mundy. Covers excitement of joining up in Aylesbury into the Bucks Territorial’s; early training in Chelmsford; embarkation leave; went to France 29.3.1915; trenches in Armentieres.
Oral history recording of his memories by Hawtin Mundy. Covers decision to join up; training and discipline; his time at the front in Armentieres
Interview with Hawtin Mundy. Covers his time at the front in Plugstreet (Ploegsteert) Wood when he was wounded in the leg and in hospital (in Chatham?), home for hospital leave and what Wolverton and Bradwell were like; and life at HQ in Aylesbury after his leave finished.
Interview with Hawtin Mundy. Covers his return to the HQ in Aylesbury after being wounded and training with the boxing team; became a member of the military police and then recruited in Wolverton in 1915; returned to France to Hebertune and was injured in the arm; retuned to the Somme then was shipped ...
Interview with Hawtin Mundy. Covers training in France after returning following injury before being sent to the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry and being sent to Arras for more training; talks about gambling with other soldiers before going to the front and the battle of Arras where he was taken prisoner. Talks about the ...
Interview with Hawtin Mundy. Covers life in the trenches at the front and the battle of Arras after he was stranded behind the enemy lines and was captured. He talks about being questioned and put to work. Initially in Donai, then Lille before being moved to a registered POW camp.
Interview with Hawtin Mundy. Covers his time as a Prisoner of War from being registered in Dortmund to his move to a camp in Eelsberg in East Prussia via Insterberg. Includes details about the food they ate; sleeping arrangements; work; parcels; and treatment by the guards. He also talks about British army ...
Interview with Hawtin Mundy. Covers similar information to DOP/T/005 (life at the front and being a PoW in World War 1) plus talks about education at school and how he left at 13 to work as a butchers boy until he was 14 and able to get an apprenticeship at Wolverton works. ...
Interview with Mrs Alice Gear (nee Meacham). Covers the outbreak of World War One; school; politics; impact of soldiers on local families; death of her cousin in France and how life on the front had changed him; work in accounts office in Wolverton Works; armistice day.
Interview with Mrs Alice Gear (nee Meacham). Covers life in general including funerals and deaths; sex education; courting and ‘Bert Watsons Hop’; McCorquodales strike; doctors; women’s role in society and suffragette movement; and food.
Interview with Mrs May Brooks (nee Dolling). Covers the start of World War One when she had just started work in print; women’s role in society and suffragette movement; strike at McCorquodales; Armistice; the Co-op; refugee families; knitting parties; social life and entertainment; holidays; rationing and food; religion.
Interview with Mrs Mabel Brown (nee Archer). Covers the outbreak of World War One; strike at McCorquodales and the union; politics; armistice.
Interview with Mrs Florence Nutt (nee Ashby). Covers her marriage and move to Wolverton; food shortages; armistice; Father Guest.
Interview with Mr Jack Rowledge. Covers manoeuvres in Wolverton; school; class and community; Father Guest; McCorquodales; milk delivering; food; health; outings; the strike; John Lords circus; health; chapel; and children’s games.
Interview with Harry Blunt. Covers outbreak of World War One; conscription in 1916; time in the 13th brigade machine gun 5th division at Arras and life in the trenches in 1917; injury and time in hospital in Etapes before being shipped home to a hospital in Brighton; discharged in 1918. He also talks ...
Interview with William James Hood. Covers the outbreak of war, his father guarded the Viaduct against an invasion; school; food shortages; boy scouts; armistice; Wolverton works; Father Guest, church choir and the marriage license confusion.
Interview with Arthur James Parker. He joined up with the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry at the outbreak of World War One and had 12 months training at Bobbiton camp where he was an officers servant; went to France at the end of 1915 and was sent to the front line at Delville Wood; ...
Interview with Sid Coles by Roger Kitchen. Joined up within the first week of the outbreak of World War One with 1st Bucks Battalion Territorial’s, 48th Division; trained in Chelmsford and went to France in 1915; shot in 1916 and sent to Ireland to convalesce for 3 months; moved to the Royal Engineers with ...
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