Interview with Frank Oswell Mason

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Object description

British boy trumpeter served with Royal Garrison Artillery in GB and India, 1907-1911; trooper and NCO served with 10th (The Prince of Wales's Own) Royal Hussars in India, South Africa, GB, Western Front and Ireland, 1911-1921

Content description

REEL 1 Aspects of enlistment and training as boy trumpeter with Royal Garrison Artillery at Fort Bovis, GB, 1907: absence of musical ability; examples of trumpet calls; question of boys' qualification by age as bandsmen or gunners; providing guard during visit by King Edward VII; conditions of service; gun training including firing at towed targets and night practice. REEL 2 Continues: rations; daily routine; practising trumpet calls; swimming; question of issue of rum ration; recreational activities and visits to Plymouth; infantry garrison; question of signals communication; supplies. REEL 3 Continues: Aspects of voyage out aboard SS Rewa from GB to India, 1907: circumstances of draft; conditions; recreational activities; case of suicide; boxing activities. Aspects of period as trooper with 10th (The Prince of Wales's Own) Royal Hussars in India, 1911: coronation of King George V at Delhi Durbar celebrations; subsequent review parade, 1911. REEL 4 Continues: Recollections of period as trooper with 10th (The Prince of Wales's Own) Royal Hussars in South Africa, 10/1912-8/1914: question of effects of Indian service on health; internal security role reinforcing police during gold miners strike at Johannesburg, 1913; pay and use of South African Garrison Institute; opinion of South African military forces. REEL 5 Continues: Aspects of operations as NCO with 10th (The Prince of Wales's Own) Royal Hussars, 6th Cavalry Bde, 3rd Cavalry Div on Western Front, 10/1914-11/1918: reaction to outbreak of First World War in South Africa, 4/8/1914; preconceptions of war; blackout precautions during voyage aboard SS Balmoral Castle from South Africa to GB, 8/1914; re-equipment in GB, 8/1914-10/1914; landing and move inland towards Ypres, Belgium, 10/1914; initial scouting role; dismounted action during First Battle of Ypres, 11/1914; proposed exploitation role of cavalry; care of horses; story illustrating value of manoeuvrability of General Service (GS) wagons. REEL 6 Continues: preconceptions of nature of war; problem with lice; muddy conditions; question of adequacy of training and equipment; state of morale; opinion of officers; question of replacement drafts; question of major offensive operations continuing in bad weather conditions; relations with French civilians; opinion of Imperial German Army troops; prior intelligence of German offensive on Somme, France, 21/3/1918; cavalry charge, 3/1918. REEL 7 Continues: rations; story of parcel recieved from GB; rum ration; recreational activities; leave in GB including regularity, newspaper reports and civilian attitudes to war; reaction to Armistice, 11/11/1918; extension of regular service during war. Aspects of NCO with 10th (The Prince of Wales's Own) Royal Hussars in GB and Ireland, 1920-1921: effects of new drafts on unit; justification of war. REEL 8 Continues: role as escort to King George V during opening of Stormont Parliament, Northern Ireland, 1921; effects of bomb explosion during train journey to Curragh, Ireland; question of effects of conversion to armoured vehicles. Reflections on service on Western Front, 10/1914-11/1918: story of visit to estaminet; terrain; view of armoured train in operation and effects of German shellfire retaliation at Vlamertinghe, Belgium, 4/1915.

Object Details

Category: Sound
Related period: 1945-1989 (production), Pre-1914 (content), First World War (content), First World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production Company)
Brice, Martin H (Recorder)
Mason, Frank Oswell (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1973
Dimensions: whole: Duration 120, Number Of Items 8
Catalogue number: 49

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