Lloyd, William Edward (Oral history)

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British private served with 2nd Bn East Yorkshire Regt (The Duke of York's Own), 8th Infantry Bde, 3rd Infantry Div in GB and North West Europe, 1942-1945

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REEL 1 Background in Doncaster, GB, 1919-1942: family; education; employment; memories of German Air Force bomb dropping, 12/1940. Recollections of period as private with 2nd Bn East Yorkshire Regt (The Duke of York's Own), 8th Infantry Bde, 3rd Infantry Div in GB, 4/1942-6/1944: background call-up for military service, 2/1942; reception at Maidenhead and Watford; training at Watford; Combined Operations training on HMT Ettrick at Inverarary, winter 1942-1943; training accidents; training at Winchester and Cowes; German artillery shelling of Folkestone; problems of rats in camp at Dumfries, 1943. REEL 2 Continues: long route march from Inverarary; practice against mock German fortification near Kilbride; blowing up two Spigot Mortar bombs on golfcourse at Nairn; character of landing exercise on Black Isle; train journey to Waterlooville; issue of twenty four hour passes; conflict with American troops at Cosham and Portsmouth; briefing for D-Day landings; duties as company runner. Recollections of operations as private with 2nd Bn East Yorkshire Regt (The Duke of York's Own), 8th Infantry Bde, 3rd Infantry Div in North West Europe, 6/1944-3/1945: role as company runner on Sword Beach, Normandy, France, D-Day, 6/6/1944. REEL 3 Continues: attack on Château de la Londe, Normandy, France, 7/6/1944; German shelling of battalion trench; opinion of medics; fighting at 'Brickworks' in Normandy, France; death of NCO from shock; use of artificial moonlight for attack at Overloon, Netherlands, 12/10/1944; attack on Venray, 19/12/1944; opinion of Major C K 'Banger' King and how he dealt with a German sniper; holding positions on River Maas, Netherlands, 12/1944; capture of German prisoners of war on River Maas, Netherlands; wounding during crossing of River Rhine, Germany, 3/1945. REEL 4 Continues: medical treatment in Belgium and evacuation to GB, 1945. Recollections of operations as private with 2nd Bn East Yorkshire Regt (The Duke of York's Own), 8th Infantry Bde, 3rd Infantry Div on Sword Beach, Normandy, France, D-Day, 6/6/1944: crossing English Channel aboard landing ship infantry HMS Glenearn; description of beach landing; attack on German strongpoint 'Daimler'; method of handling German prisoners of war; battalion casualties; problems crossing flooded area behind Sword Beach; question of battalion survival rate on beach.

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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)
Wood, Conrad (Recorder)
Lloyd, William Edward (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1993-07-26
Dimensions: whole: Duration 120, Number Of Items 4
Catalogue number: 13283

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