Tew, Kenneth (Oral history)

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British NCO served with 425 Bty, 107th (South Nottinghamshire Hussars), Royal Horse Artillery in GB, Palestine, and North Africa, 1938-1941

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REEL 1 Background in Nottingham, GB, 1916-1938: education and Officers' Training Corps activities at King's School, Warwick; employment with electric power company. Aspects of enlistment and training as gunner with A Troop, 425 Bty, 107th (South Nottinghamshire Hussars) Regt, Royal Horse Artillery at Derby Road Drill Hall, Nottingham, GB, 1938-1939: initial attempt to join Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve; recruitment by Regimental Sergeant-Major Frederick Porter, 1938; Ordnance QF 18 Pounder Field Gun drill; attending Redesdale Camp, 6/1939; relations with other ranks, officers and NCOs; reaction to approach of war; mobilisation, 9/1939; conditions of service; blackout precautions. Aspects of period as gunner with A Troop, 425 Bty, 107th (South Nottinghamshire Hussars) Regt, Royal Horse Artillery at Rillington and Wragby, GB, 9/1939-1/1940: question of nickname of 'cut glass boys'; role and training as specialist gunner; accommodation. REEL 2 Continues: relationship with Regular Army reservists and conscripts; driving lorry; preparations for overseas posting; promotion to lance bombardier and journey out to Palestine, 1/1940. Aspects of period as NCO with A Troop, 425 Bty, 107th (South Nottinghamshire Hussars) Regt, Royal Horse Artillery in Palestine, 1/1940-6/1940: sea bathing; driving on sand at Asluj Firing Camp; role on gun team and as specialist. Aspects of period as NCO with A Troop, 425 Bty, 107th (South Nottinghamshire Hussars) Regt, Royal Horse Artillery at Mersa Matruh, Egypt, 6/1940-1/1941: dugouts; desert sores. REEL 3 Continues: rations; drunken Christmas party, 25/12/1940; sandstorms; high-level Italian Air Force raids; recreational activities; opinion of officers. Aspects of period as NCO with A Troop, 425 Bty, 107th (South Nottinghamshire Hussars) Regt, Royal Horse Artillery on Suez Canal, Egypt, 1/1941-4/1941: promotion to sergeant; role of gun sergeant; re-equipping with Ordnance QF 25 Pounder Field Gun. Recollections of operations as NCO with A Troop, 425 Bty, 107th (South Nottinghamshire Hussars) Regt, Royal Horse Artillery at Tobruk, Libya, 4/1941-12/1941: drive to Tobruk, 4/1941; role of Chaplain H A Parry; gun positions; firing during initial German attacks; gun programmes; German counter-battery fire. REEL 4 Continues: Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive-bombing attacks, slit trenches, necessity of continuing to fire gun programme and camouflage of gun position; random fire from various positions and use of captured Italian Army artillery; methods of registering and ranging targets during periods of duty up scaffolding pole observation post; minor knee wound received in disposal of anti-personnel mines dropped by aircraft. REEL 5 Continues: dugout and sleeping arrangements; food and water rations; question of washing, standards of appearance and uniform worn; latrines; dysentery; fly problem; question of desert sores; vulnerability to effects of sun; desert faunae including scorpions; recreational activities including concert parties, bridge, gambling, rugby match and rest camp; state of morale; letter and parcel contact with GB. REEL 6 Continues: opinion of various officers and other ranks; background to successful application for officers' cadet training; opinion of Royal Air Force pilots defending Tobruk; wounding in back by artillery shell whilst at Bashwell Observation Post, 1/12/1941. Aspects of hospitalisation in No 16 British General Hospital, Cairo, Egypt and GB, 1941-1943: evacuation via hospital in Tobruk, Libya to No 16 General Hospital at Cairo, 12/1941 including ambulance journey; question of lack of immediate medical attention; development of serious complication and bone marrow disease; nature of medical treatment in Egypt and GB, 1941-1943; initial relapses; medical discharge, 1943; return to civilian employment at electric power company.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), Second World War (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Hart, Peter M (Recorder)
Tew, Kenneth (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1990
Dimensions: whole: Duration 180, Number Of Items 6
Catalogue number: 11956

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