Interview with Cyril Williams

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British NCO served with F Sqdn, No 2 Wing, Glider Pilot Regiment during Operation Market Garden, Netherlands, 9/1944; prisoner of war in Apeldoorn, Netherlands and Lazarett VII-A, Freising, Germany, 9/1944-2/1945; repatriated from Germany to GB, 2/1945

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REEL 1 Background in Harrington, GB, 1923-1939: family; education. Aspects of period as schoolchild in Harrington and Blackpool, GB, 1939-1942: reaction to declaration of Second World War, 3/9/1939; evacuation of school to Blackpool; social activities and contact with servicemen in Blackpool; ambition to become Royal Air Force pilot and reasons for not achieving it. Aspects of enlistment and training as trooper with Royal Armoured Corps and 1st Fife and Forfar Yeomanry in GB, 1942-1943: call-up for military service with Royal Armoured Corps; attitude to service in 1st Fife and Forfar Yeomanry in Scotland. Aspects of selection and training as NCO with Glider Pilot Regiment in GB, 1943-1944: how his colour blindness was not noticed during selection; attitude to glider work; reaction to missing D-Day operations, 6/6/1944. Recollections of operations as NCO with F Sqdn, No 2 Wing, Glider Pilot Regiment during Operation Market Garden, Netherlands, 17/9/1944-25/9/1944: duties carrying troops of 1st Bn Border Regt in first glider lift, 17/9/1944; flight from GB to Netherlands. REEL 2 Continues: disengaging tow ropes over landing zone; landing glider in landing zone; capture of German prisoners of war, 17/9/1944; under fire on electric railway line near Velp; sight of mental patients wandering around near sanatorium; in action against Germans forces in wood; German request for truce to collect wounded; capture of Dutch Schutzstaffel (SS) man in wood; incident of wounded Waffen-SS man being tipped out of stretcher by NCO; turning house into strongpoint; German attacks on house; suffering from lack of fluid. REEL 3 Continues: ammunition supply to house; wounding in explosion, 25/9/1944; evacuation on stretcher to dressing station; discovery of state of wound; situation in dressing station; problems with Royal Air Force air supply drops; German respect for Red Cross; capture and treatment received from Waffen-SS captors. Aspects of period as prisoner of war in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, 9/1944-11/1944: transfer to Konig Willem III Cavalry Barracks, 27/9/1944; contracting gangrene in his wounded arm; removal of arm, 28/9/1944; recovery in civilian hospital in Apeldoorn; encounter with wounded German medical officer. Recollections of period as prisoner of war in Lazarett VII-A, Freising, Germany, 11/1944-2/1945: evacuation by hospital train from Netherlands to Germany. REEL 4 Continues: other Allied patients in Lazarett VII-A, Freising; issue of striped hospital pyjamas; medical treatment and diet; news that blind and amputees were to be on next prisoner of war exchange; behaviour of German guard with psychological problems. Aspects of repatriation from Germany to GB, 2/1945: train journey to Constance, Switzerland; journey from Switzerland to Marseille, France; voyage aboard HMT Arundel Castle from France to GB; arrival in GB and medical treatment received, 2/1945; prior recollection of comrade Frank Taylor during Operation Market Garden in Netherlands. REEL 5 Continues: prior recollection of comrade Frank Taylor during Operation Market Garden in Netherlands.

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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)
Williams, Cyril (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1996
Dimensions: whole: Duration 125, Number Of Items 5
Catalogue number: 16858

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