Interview with Henry Carey Druce

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British officer served with 2nd Special Air Service Regt, Special Air Service Bde during Operation Loyton in Vosges, France, 12/8/1944-9/10/1944

Content description

REEL 1 Aspects of period as officer with 2nd Special Air Service Regt, Special Air Service Bde in GB, 4/1944-8/1944: background to joining Special Air Service, 4/1944; situation within regiment on arrival; expectation of experience; fitness training; rank; role as stick commander; organisation of regiment; last minute attachment to Operation Loyton; briefing and flight to France. Recollections of operations as officer with 2nd Special Air Service Regt during Operation Loyton in Vosges, France, 12/8/1944-9/10/1944: parachute drop; movement away from drop zone; initial contact with Maquis; betrayal and movement of camp; action against German forces and division of group; help received from civilians; liaison officers; arrival at second camp; reconnaissance for and arrival of Lieutenant-Colonel Brian Franks; decision to send message to Lieutenant-Colonel Brian Franks prior to arrival in France; problems with movement of arms; character of French Resistance in area; re-organisation of unit by Lieutenant-Colonel Brian Franks; activities prior to arrival of unit's armoured jeeps; size of group; problems with obtaining air-supply drops; story of shooting of French collaborator. REEL 2 Continues: further details of arrival of Lieutenant-Colonel Brian Franks; collection of extra personnel; restrictions on activity; relations with French Resistance; question of German forces in area; clothing and boots worn; expectation of arrival of Third Army, United States Army; communications; camp and accommodation; French forces in area; abandonment of camp; action against German forces including casualties; daily problems; problems with supply; death of a trooper following supply drop; story of captured cow; problem obtaining rations; navigational help from civilians; problem of trust; relations with French priest and civilians; rounding-up of French civilians by German forces. REEL 3 Continues: opinion of armoured jeep; nature of house hidden in; reasons for being sent back to Allied lines; details of journey to and period with American forces; journey to and activities in GB; situation on return to France; memories of officers who participated in Operation Loyton; second to visit Third Army, United States Army and return to GB; posting to Netherlands; knowledge of capture of 2nd Special Air Service Regt personnel.

Object Details

Category: Sound
Related period: 1945-1989 (production), Second World War (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: TVS (Production company)
Stevens, Gordon (Recorder)
Druce, Henry Carey (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1987-03-06
Dimensions: whole: Duration 80, Number Of Items 3
Catalogue number: 18032

Object associations

Associated people and organisations

Druce, Henry Carey
Franks, Brian Foster Morton
British Army
British Army, Special Air Service
British Army, Special Air Service Regt, 2
British Army, Special Air Service Bdess
British Army, Operation, Loyton
Resistance, French
Resistance, French, Maquis
United States Army, Army, Third
German Army
Associated places

Netherlands
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
England, United Kingdom
France
Vosges Department, France
Associated themes

TVS Collection: David Stirling and the SAS
Military Operations, 1939-1945: North West Europe, 1944-1945

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Interview with Henry Carey Druce

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