Wylie, Charles Geoffrey (Oral history)

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British officer served with 2/1st Bn King George V's Own Gurkha Rifles, 28th Indian Infantry Bde, 11th Indian Infantry Div in India and Malaya, 1939-1942; prisoner of war in Malaya and on Burma-Thailand Railway, 1942-1945; served with 1/10th Bn Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles in Malaya, 1948-1949; served with 2/10th Bn Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles in Malaya, 1954-1955 and 1957-1959

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REEL 1 Background in India and GB, 1919-1939: family; education; opinion of his course at Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1937-1938. Aspects of period as schoolboy on school exchange in Germany, 1937: attending Nazi rally on occasion of 700th founding of Berlin and how First World War was depicted; use of television to broadcast Nüremburg rallies; reaction to anti-Jewish posters on display. Recollections of period as officer with 2/1st Bn King George V's Own Gurkha Rifles in India, 1939-1941: initial secondment to 1st Bn East Yorkshire Regt at Jullundar; posting to 2/1st King George V's Own Gurkha Rifles on North West Frontier, 1/1940; duties keeping roads open to Razmak, 1/1940-5/1940; attitude of Gurkhas towards Pathans; fire in bazaar at Razmak; train journey from Razmak to Dharamshala, 5/1940. REEL 2 Continues: training at Wah Cantonment near Rawalpindi; Gurkhas' reaction to loss of mules; arrival of new equipment and personnel; move to Secunderabad to join 28th Indian Infantry Bde, 11th Indian Infantry Div; mobilisation at Secunderabad; diversion of unit from Middle East to Malaya at Bombay. Recollections of operations as officer with 2/1st Bn King George V's Own Gurkha Rifles, 28th Indian Infantry Bde, 11th Indian Infantry Div in Malaya, 8/1941-2/1942: arrival at Port Swettenham, 8/1941; move to Ipoh, 8/1941; disposition of British forces in northern Malaya, late 1941; plan to occupy Singora, Thailand before Japanese; first news of Japanese landings in Malaya, 12/1941; sight of destroyed Royal Air Force aircraft at Alor Star, 12/1941; false alarm of Japanese parachutists, 12/1941; orders to move through Jittra Line and occupy an outpost, 12/1941. REEL 3 Continues: how unit was shown into positions by Indian Army officer Mohan Singh, who was already in contact with Imperial Japanese Army, 12/1941; reaction to hearing Japanese tanks; action against Japanese tanks including failed attempt to use Molotov Cocktails; withdrawal of unit after tank engagement; Japanese shelling of unit positions close to Jittra Line; counter-attacks by 2/9th Bn Jat Regt, 12/1941; his reconnaissance patrols; move southwards towards Alor Star, 12/1941; falling asleep during march; loss of unit transport; rest period at Sungei Patani; move from Sungei Patani to Bukit Mertajam, 12/1941. REEL 4 Continues: arrival of first reinforcements, 12/1941; withdrawal southwards to Gurun near Kedah Peak; retreat to River Perek occupying positions at Blanja; visit by Brigadier Ray Selby; presence of Imperial Japanese Air Force reconnaissance aircraft and his strafing by one at Blanja; retreat to Kampar area; retreat to Tapah; forcing Japanese retreat at Tapah; retreat to River Slim; Japanese tank advance through unit lines at River Slim; joining forces with 2nd Bn Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in rubber plantation, 1/1942. REEL 5 Continues: crossing river during retreat to Tanjong Malim; fate of commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel John Fulton, 8/2/1942; how 2nd Bn Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders broke away to make for coast, 2/1942; taking shelter in managers' bungalow on Kuala Lumpur-Kuala Selangor road; capture by Japanese, 2/1942. Aspects of period as prisoner of war in Malaya and on Burma-Thailand Railway, 1942-1945: his treatment on capture by Japanese; his removal to Kuala Selangor by bicycle; treatment by Japanese at Kuala Selangor; removal to Malacca and parading before General Tomoyuki Yamashita; interrogation in Kuala Lumpar; work of Major Davidson on Burma-Thailand railway. REEL 6 Continues: route by which intelligence gathered by Major Davidson sent to GB; Major Davidson's dissemination of war news; Japanese guards beating to death of prisoners of war for operating Illicit radio; Allied air raids on Burma-Thailand Railway. Recollections of operations as officer with 1/10th Bn Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles in Malaya, 1948-1949 and 2/10th Bn Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles in Malaya, 1954-1955 and 1957-1959: action against insurgents in jungle and captured propaganda with 1/10th Bn Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles mid-1949; operations with 2/10th Bn Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles in Johore, 1954-1955 and 1957-1959; account of ambush on No 32 Platoon, Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) at Bukit Siput, North Johore. REEL 7 Continues: story of discovery of gurkha Naik Nakam Gurung, cut off during Japanese advance, 1941-1942, by 2/10th Bn Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles in 1950.

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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)
Wylie, Charles Geoffrey (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1995-11-09
Dimensions: whole: Duration 200, Number Of Items 7
Catalogue number: 16276

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