Hackforth-Jones, Paul (Oral history)

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British officer served with Middlesex Yeomanry attached to 22nd Light Anti-Aircraft Regt, Royal Artillery, British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium, 5/1940-6/1940; served with Sudan Defence Force Signals in East Africa, 9/1940-8/1941; staff officer served with Headquarters, Eighth Army in North Africa, 1942; served as signals officer with 201st Guards Independent Motor Bde in Italy, 9/1943-10/1943; served with 10th Air Formation Signals.Royal Corps of Signals in Southern France, 8/1944; served with 14th Air Formation Signals (North Somerset Yeomanry), Royal Corps of Signals in North West Europe, 1945

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REEL 1 Background in GB, 1917-1935: family; education; employment. Aspects of period with Middlesex Yeomanry in GB, 1935-1940: reasons for joining Territorial Army, 1935; cavalry training; background to becoming acting adjutant, 1/1939. Aspects of operations as signals officer with Middlesex Yeomanry attached 22nd Light Anti-Aircraft Regt Royal Artillery, British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium, 5/1940-6/1940: supply of signal troop to regiment; wireless equipment; role of signals troop; incident of bumping into German Army Infantry in Belgium, 5/1940; sight of bombed Lille, France, 5/1940; rallying point on beach at Dunkirk, France; German shelling of beaches at Dunkirk, France; his evacuation from East Mole at Dunkirk, France, 2/6/1940; return to Ramsgate, GB. Recollections of period as officer with Sudan Defence Force Signals in East Africa, 9/1940-8/1941: orders to become adjutant, 9/1940. REEL 2 Continues: journey from Khartoum to Kassala, Sudan; first encounter with his commanding officer; Italian position at Keren, Eritrea; performance of Sudan Defence Force Signals during campaign; nature of Eritrea; work of Mission 101; return to Middlesex Yeomanry in Lebanon, 8/1941. Aspects of period as staff officer with Headquarters, Eighth Army in North Africa, 1942: work as staff officer; attitude to role. Recollections of operations as signals officer with 201st Guards Independent Motor Bde in Italy, 9/1943-10/1943: character of landing at Salerno, 9/1943; German counter-attack at Salerno, 9/1943; how he was taken prisoner by German Army patrol at Salerno, 9/1943. REEL 3 Continues: disposal of brigade codes as toilet paper; his treatment during interrogation; escape from German captivity; evasion from Germans and hazardous 'surrender' to Americans; opinion of German forces; his contracting jaundice and evacuation to North Africa, 10/1943. Aspects of operations as signal officer with 10th Air Formation Signals, Royal Corps of Signals in Southern France, 8/1944: appointment to unit; voyage from Naples, Italy to Southern France; unopposed landings as Saint-Tropez; contact with French Resistance; problems with bureaucracy over leave in GB, autumn, 1944. REEL 4 Continues: Aspects of operations as signals officer with 14th Air Formation Signals (North Somerset Yeomanry), Royal Corps of Signals in North West Europe, 1945: background to recruitment to unit in London, GB; joining unit at Nijmegen, Netherlands; reasons for orders to move to Jutland, Denmark; use of German personnel to work communications in Denmark

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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)
Hackforth-Jones, Paul (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1993-08-28
Dimensions: whole: Duration 120, Number Of Items 4
Catalogue number: 13350

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