The Battle of Britain

Cook, George (IWM interview)

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  • 9977
Production date
1987-09-25
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  • object category: IWM interview
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British private served with 4 Commando in GB and during Dieppe Raid, France, 1941-1942; POW in France and Stalag VIIIB, Lamsdorf in Germany, 1942-1944; repatriated to GB, 1944

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REEL 1 Background in Manchester, GB, 1921-1940: family; employment; volunteering for army, 1940. Recollections of volunteering and training with 4 Commando in GB, 1941-1942: reasons for volunteering for Commandos, 1941; selection interview; character of commando training in Scotland, 5/1941; allocation to 4 Commando; comradeship and mutual help ethos in commandos; attractions of commando training; keenness to see action; fatalities during exercise on Isle of Arran, spring 1942. Recollections of operations as private with 4 Commando during Dieppe Raid, France, 8/1942: preparations for raid. REEL 2 Continues: Channel crossing; beach landing; advance inland; firing on battery; his wounding in face and shoulders. Aspects of period as POW in France and Stalag VIII B Lamsdorf in Germany, 1942-1944: treatment by German troops and French civilians; evacuation to Rouen, then Paris; regaining consciousness in hospital in Paris; medical treatment for facial and shoulder wounds; relations with German patients and hospital staff; removal to Stalag VII B, Lamsdorf in Germany, 10/1943; his repatriation to GB, 1944; medical treatment on return to GB. REEL 3 Continues: Aspects of operations as private with 4 Commando during Dieppe Raid, France, 8/1942: briefing for raid; his reflections on raid; Canadian reaction to failure of raid; German reaction to result of raid and discovery of dead Germans with their hands tied; his own instructions regarding prisoners; his proposed role on capture of battery; attitude to service with Commandos.

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