Interview with Frederick McCloud

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British private served with 50th (Holding) Bn and 9th Bn Border Regt, 225th Independent Infantry Bde (Home) in GB, 1940-1941; served with 9th Bn Border Regt, 48th Indian Infantry Bde, 17th Indian Infantry Div in India and Burma, 1942-1945

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REEL 1 Background in Kingston upon Hull, GB, 1915-1939: family; education; employment. Aspects of period with 50th (Holding) Bn Border Regt and 9th Bn Border Regt, 225th Independent Infantry Bde (Home) in GB, 1940-1941: call-up to Border Regiment, 1940; training at Cockermouth; cross-country running prowess of unit; memories of comrades in platoon; nature of accommodation; question of troop's hunger; compassionate leave to get married, 8/1940; coastal defence duties at Holy Island; anticipation of German invasion; living conditions at Ross Farm; state of troop's health; story of being snowed in near Belford Hall, 1/1941. REEL 2 Continues: use of golden ray rockets to warn of invasion, 1941; relations with civilians in Northumberland. Aspects of voyage aboard HMT Orcades from GB to India via South Africa, 1942: embarkation at Clydeside, GB; conditions aboard ship; entry into docks and sight of HMS Newcastle at Durban, South Africa; move to Clarewood Transit Camp, Durban, South Africa, 6/1942; retaliation of Australian Army troops to stabbing of comrade, Durban, South Africa; memories of Perla Siedle Gibson 'The Lady in White' at Durban, South Africa; voyage across Indian Ocean; sight of HMT Queen Mary on North Atlantic stretch of voyage; physical training aboard ship. REEL 3 Continues: Recollections of period as private with 12 Platoon, B Coy, 9th Bn Border Regt, 48th Indian Infantry Bde, 17th Indian Infantry Div in India, 1942: arrival in Bombay; smells encountered in India; attitudes to race in British Army; sights of Calcutta; memories of Gibraltarian battalion barber; character of internal security duties in Calcutta, 1942; role with regimental police; life in Fort William, Calcutta. REEL 4 Continues: watching cricket on Calcutta maidan; role of W Coy clearing corpses from streets; duties with regimental police at Fort William, Calcutta; escorting military courier to Ranchi; encounter with monkey pack during leave at Balun; leave period on tea estate. REEL 5 Continues: Aspects of training as private with 12 Platoon, B Coy, 9th Bn Border Regt, 48th Indian Infantry Bde, 17th Indian Infantry Div in India, 1943: move to Shillong; accommodation including rat infestation at Shillong; training with 2/5th Bn Gurkha Rifles; use of female bamboo for emergency water supply; Gurkha's constructing of bamboo stairways on muddy slopes. Recollections of operations as private with 12 Platoon, B Coy, 9th Bn Border Regt, 48th Indian Infantry Bde, 17th Indian Infantry Div in India and Burma, 1943-1944: move towards Tiddim, India; method of crossing River Manipur, India; road widening by Chin levies at Tiddim, India; preparations for expected Imperial Japanese Army attack at Kennedy Peak, Burma; Naga hill people's smoking customs; bounty given to Naga hill people for heads of Imperial Japanese Army troops; interrogation of Chin villagers to get information about Japanese forces. REEL 6 Continues: composition of mortar team and handling of mules; incident of soldier being shot through eye on patrol; withdrawal from Kennedy Peak, Burma; use of American manufactured troop carrying lorries for widening of Tiddim Road, India; sight of gunner firing Bofors Gun at Imperial Japanese Army road block; mortal wounding of Company Sergeant-Major Robert 'Bob' Little at OP Hill near Bishenpur, 2/4/1944; memories of unit's mules 'Lucky' and 'Churchill'; incident when Major Raymond Cooper was wounded in command post; extrication of Major Raymond Cooper on make shift stretcher. REEL 7 Continues: reaction to death of Company Sergeant-Major Robert 'Bob' Little, 2/4/1944; explanation of term 'duffy'; battalion's by-passing of OP Hill. Recollections of operations as private with 12 Platoon, B Coy, 9th Bn Border Regt, 48th Indian Infantry Bde, 17th Indian Infantry Div at Potsangbam, India, 1944: nature of operation; personal moral during attack against Imperial Japanese Army positions; Royal Air Force Vultee Vengence dive-bombing attack against Imperial Japanese Army positions; Imperial Japanese Army troops' attempt to break out of Potsangbam; reaction to unwashed condition; retracing route unit had advanced along; cleaning up process for troops coming out of line; singing 'Ye Ken John Peel' after cleaning up process. Recollections of period of hospitalisation and recuperation in India, 1944-1945: return to India; question of pay and leave; period of leave at Dalhousie. REEL 8 Continues: alcoholic activities in Dalhousie; visit to Golden Temple of Amritsar; activities on leave in Calcutta; visit to Tata Nagar Steel Works outside Calcutta; nature of medical problems; attempt of 9th Bn Border Regt to get him to return to unit; medical treatment in Ranchi; question of sense of comradeship in B Coy, 9th Bn Border Regt. Aspects of hospitalisation in Wharnecliffe Hospital, Sheffield ,GB, 1945: return to GB; memories of VJ Day, 15/8/1945. REEL 9 Continues: work at hospital; Battle of Arnhem veteran who died on operating table; contact with munitions workers; return to civilian employment in Kingston upon Hull, 1945; attitude to having served with 9th Bn Border Regt in Burma Campaign.

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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)
McCloud, Frederick (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1999-06-28
Dimensions: whole: Duration 270, Number Of Items 9
Catalogue number: 19067

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