Lane, Barry Alexander (Oral history)

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British officer served with 10th Armoured Divisional Signals in North Africa, 1942; served with 50th (Northumbrian) Divisional Signals in Italy, GB and Normandy, France, 1943-1944; served with R Force, 21st Army Group in North West Europe, 1944-1945; officer served with Gold Coast Police Force in Gold Coast, British West Africa, 1946-1958

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REEL 1 Recollections of period as officer with Gold Coast Police Force on the Gold Coast, British West Africa, 1946-1958: background to joining Gold Coast Police Force; nature of selection interview, early 1946; first responsibilities in C Division, Accra, 1946; difference between General Police and Escort Police; attitude of Gold Coast policemen to novice white police officers; question of impartiality of policemen; case of retired civil servants who were antagonistic towards local police officer in Apam; law and order problems in C Division; dealing with case in which woman complained about non-payment for sex; lack of sense of impending Independence in 1946; transfer from C Division, 1947; first inklings of move towards self-government and influence of returning ex-servicemen. REEL 2 Continues: politicians' exploitation of discontent of returning ex-servicemen, 1948; his wife's role in keeping him informed of local feeling; advantages and disadvantages of having police in barracks; memories of Dr Joseph Danquam and Kwame Nkrumah; his arrest of Kwame Nkrumah after riot in which three members of Escort Police were stabbed; internment of Kwame Nkrumah after Accra Riots, 28/2/1948; his personal relationship with Kwame Nkrumah; his reasons for declining Kwame Nkrumah's request to stay on after Independence, 1958; Superintendent Colin Imray's role during Accra Riots, 28/2/1948. REEL 3 Continues: nature of Accra Riots, 28/2/1948; restoring law and order in aftermath of Accra Riots; use of Light Bty, Royal West African Frontier Force to restore order in Koforidua; price fixing as cause of rioting; role of women traders in Gold Coast economy; role of 'veranda boys' in looting; presence of Asian traders and their relations with Africans; how Accra Riots of 28/2/1948 became a turning point in history of country; preventability of Accra Riots, 28/2/1948; his cross examining by Dingle Foot during enquiry into Accra Riots. REEL 4 Continues: degree of threat during Accra Riots, 28/2/1948; character of rioters during Accra Riots, 28/2/1948; further details of Accra Riots, 28/2/1948; lack of nationalist pressure on administration for Independence, 1948-1957; opinion of new Inspector General of Police Matthew Collens after, 2/1948; expansion of Gold Coast Police Force after 2/1948; activists wearing of Prison Graduate caps after style of Indian nationalists; police work in Winnebra District, 1951-1953; work in Elmina Castle area, 1953-1954 including loss of colleague Edgar Brooks killed by drunken demonstrators, 1953; work in Central Province, 1954-1955; pattern of his career; lack of organised movement against Independence. REEL 5 Continues: reasons for popularity of politics in Central Province; ritual killings at Oda in Winneba District; degree of liaison with army units. Aspects of period as signals officer with 10th Armoured Divisional Signals in North Africa, 8/1942-12/1942: impact on morale of arrival of General Bernard Montgomery; driving into minefield in Willys Jeep during Battle of El Alamein, 10/1942; sight of mass Italian surrender. Aspects of operations as signals officer with 50th (Northumbrian) Divisional Signals in Italy, GB and Normandy, France, 1943-1944: background to joining division, 1943; landing in Italy; landing from Landing Ship Tank (LST) in Normandy, France, D-Day, 6/6/1944; impressions of naval bombardment; unit casualties; acquisition of sheets in Normandy. Aspects of period as officer with R Force, 21st Army Group in North West Europe, 1944-1945: joining unit; deception work carried out by unit. REEL 6 Continues: deceiving Germans over location of crossing of River Rhine, Germany, 3/1945. Story of attitude of trade unionist dockers during loading of signals equipment aboard SS Nea Hellas at Glasgow Docks.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), Second World War (content), Second World War (association), 1945-1989 (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Wood, Conrad (Recorder)
Lane, Barry Alexander (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1993-03-17
Dimensions: whole: Duration 170, Number Of Items 6
Catalogue number: 13086

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