Mapplebeck, Thomas George (Oral history)

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British officer served as pilot with 29 and 40 Squadrons, Royal Flying Corps on Western Front, 1916; prisoner of war in Germany, 1916-1918; civilian diplomat served as Assistant Air Attaché in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1941

Content description

REEL 1 Recollections of period as civilian diplomat in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1941: his business activities in Yugoslavia during 1930s; background to becoming Assistant Air Attaché in British Embassy in Belgrade; pattern of later service with Royal Air Force in Middle East; contact with Brigadier General Borivoje Mirkovic of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force; inter-personal relations in British Embassy; his royalist outlook; origins of the Yugoslav coup, 1941; his sole contact with Special Operations Executive. REEL 2 Continues: reception of Sir John Dill's mission to Prime Minister Dusan Simovic; his arrangements for Terence Shore to leave before Axis attack, 4/1941; evaluation of Yugoslavian military performance against Germans; his own escape from Yugoslavia; relations between Sir Ronald Campbell and air attaché; extent of Sir Ronald Campbell's knowledge of Mapplebeck's Yugoslav contacts. Aspects of enlistment with 4th (Extra Reserve) Bn King's (Liverpool Regt) in GB, 1914: how he left Germany on eve of outbreak of First World War, 8/1914. REEL 3 Continues: his anxiety to enlist on return to GB; his attempt to join Royal Flying Corps via commission in 4th (Extra Reserve) Bn King's (Liverpool Regt). Recollections of operations as pilot with 29 and 40 Sqdns, Royal Flying Corps on Western Front, 1916: operations with 29 Sqdn, 1916; attack on German balloon with 40 Squadron; opinion of Manfred von Richthofen; opinion of quality of British aircraft; personal morale; convalescence after wounding at Ypres, Belgium, 1915; his attack on balloon; his forced landing and capture. Aspects of period as prisoner of war in Germany, 1916-1918: treatment on capture; his organisation of escapes. REEL 4 Continues: killing of British escapees on German/Dutch frontier; repatriation work at end of First World War, 11/1918.

Object Details

Category: Sound
Related period: 1945-1989 (production), Second World War (content), Interwar (association), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Wood, Conrad (Recorder)
Mapplebeck, Thomas George (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1987
Dimensions: whole: Duration 120, Number Of Items 4
Catalogue number: 9857

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Associated people and organisations

Mapplebeck, Thomas George
Mirkovic, Borivoje
Campbell, Ronald Ian
Dill, John Greer
Richthofen, Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von
British Army, King's (Liverpool Regt), Bn, 4 (Extra Reserve)
British Army, Royal Flying Corps, Sqdn, 29
British Army, Royal Flying Corps, Sqdn, 40
Royal Air Force
British Government, Embassy, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Associated places

England, United Kingdom
Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Yugoslavia
Belgrade, Yugoslav
Western Front
France
Belgium
Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium
Germany
Associated keywords

Prisoner of War
Associated themes

Air Operations, 1914-1919: Royal Flying Corps, 1912-1918
Nazi Europe, 1933-1945
Prisoners of War, 1914-1918

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