You are here: Home>Search Search Currently displaying: 73 results You've searched for: Collection: "Days of Pride Collection." xDecade: "1980s" x Search term Filter by Collection Days of Pride Collection. (73) Filter by Format Audio (36)Document (23)Photograph (7)Photographic Slide (4) Filter by Decade 1910s (1)1920s (1)1930s (1)1940s (1)1950s (1)1960s (1)1970s (14)1980s (73)1990s (1) Sort by: RelevanceTitleOldestNewest Oral history audio recording of Hawtin Mundy (b.1894) and his experiences in the army in World War One. DOP/001/004 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 audio recording of Hawtin Mundy (b.1894) and his experiences in the army in World War One. DOP/001/005 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 audio recording of Hawtin Mundy (b.1894) and his experiences in the army in World War One. DOP/001/006 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. Oral history audio recording of Hawtin Mundy (b.1894) and his experiences in the army in World War One. DOP/001/007 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 audio recording of Hawtin Mundy (b.1894) and his experiences in the army in World War One. DOP/001/008 Oral history recording of his memories by Hawtin Mundy. Covers decision to join up; training and discipline; his time at the front in Armentieres Oral history audio recording of Hawtin Mundy (b.1894) and his experiences in the army in World War One. DOP/001/009 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. Oral history audio recording of Hawtin Mundy (b.1894) and his experiences in the army in World War One. DOP/001/010 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 ... Oral history audio recording of Hawtin Mundy (b.1894) and his experiences in the army in World War One. DOP/001/011 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 ... Oral history audio recording of Hawtin Mundy (b.1894) and his experiences in the army in World War One. DOP/001/012 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. Oral history audio recording of Hawtin Mundy (b.1894) and his experiences in the army in World War One. DOP/001/013 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 ... Oral history audio recording of Hawtin Mundy (b.1894) and his experiences in the army in World War One. DOP/001/014 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. ... Oral history audio recording of Alice Gear (b.1902) about her memories of World War One. DOP/001/015 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. Oral history audio recording of Alice Gear (b.1902) about her memories of World War One. DOP/001/016 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. Oral history audio recording of May Brooks (b.1899) about her memories of World War One. DOP/001/017 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. Oral history audio recording of Mabel Brown (b.1894) about her memories of World War One. DOP/001/018 Interview with Mrs Mabel Brown (nee Archer). Covers the outbreak of World War One; strike at McCorquodales and the union; politics; armistice. Oral history audio recording of Florence Nutt (b.1891) about her memories of New Bradwell in World War One. DOP/001/019 Interview with Mrs Florence Nutt (nee Ashby). Covers her marriage and move to Wolverton; food shortages; armistice; Father Guest. Oral history audio recording of Jack Rowledge (b.1905) about his memories of World War One. DOP/001/020 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. Oral history audio recording of Harry Blunt (b.1898) about his memories of World War One. DOP/001/021 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 ... Oral history audio recording of William James Hood (b.1905) about his memories of World War One. DOP/001/022 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. Oral history audio recording of Arthur James Parker (b.1889) about his experiences in the army in World War One. DOP/001/023 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; ... Oral history audio recording of Sid Coles (b.1893) about his experiences in the army in World War One. DOP/001/024 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 ... Oral history recording of Nellie Abbey (b.1885) about her memories of World War One. DOP/001/025 Interview of Nellie Abbey (nee Smith). She entertained the troops with the Stantonbury Girls’ Club at the manoeuvres in Wolverton in 1913; during world war one she worked in the Wolverton works sewing room and in the evening did club performances; she also organised hospital fetes at the recreation ground in Bradwell; she talks ... Oral history recording of Sid Coles (b.1893) memories of the Wolverton Park and Recreation Ground. DOP/001/026 Interview of Sid Coles. Talks about the opening of Wolverton park and recreation ground and the importance of Friendly societies; the events and activities taking place in and around the park; Chasewater Charlie; racing as part of the Wolverton Athletic Club; the British cycling team training for the Olympics; how the railway company maintained ... Oral history recording of Mrs Viva Chappill (b.1905) and her memories of World War One. DOP/001/027 Interview of Mrs Viva Chappill (nee Tilley). She talks about the Belgium refugees who her father put up in houses next door; her father would give toys to families who had lost their father in the war; her mother was an auxiliary at Tickford Abbey convalescent home. She also talks about food shortages; ... PAGE: < Prev1234Next >