Interview with Emmanuel Adrien Raud

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French merchant seaman served with French Merchant Marine aboard SS Daphne II in North Atlantic, English Channel and North Sea, 9/1939-3/1941 including sinking in North Sea, 18/3/1941; served aboard SS Armenier and SS Egee in North Sea, 1941-1942; seaman served as steward at Surcouf Barracks, Free French Naval Forces, Clapham Common, London, GB, 1942-1945

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REEL 1 Background in Séné, France, 1922-1938: family; education; employment; reasons for joining French Merchant Marine, 1938. Aspects of period as seaman with French Merchant Marine aboard in SS These, 1938-1939: duties on board; reaction to declaration of Second World War, 3/9/1939; reasons for transferring to Daphne, 1939. Recollections of period as seaman with French Merchant Marine aboard Daphne II in North Atlantic, English Channel and North Sea, 9/1939-3/1941: arming of ship at Bordeaux, France, 5/1940; German Air Force attack at Cherbourg, France; voyage to take ammunition from Cherbourg to Dunkirk, France; sight of sister ship destroyed by German Air Force attack off Cherbourg, France; sight of dead bodies in sea off Dunkirk, France; German Air Force attack on ship off Dunkirk, France; sailing to Leith, GB, 6/1940; reaction to capitulation of France, 25/6/1940; taking over of ship by British forces at Leith, GB; question of lack of knowledge of General Charles de Gaulle and impression made by his speech, summer 1940; pressure put on Frenchmen abroad to return to France; attitude of Scottish civilians towards Free French personnel; convoy work off east coast of GB; German attacks on east coast convoys. REEL 2 Continues: Aspects of sinking of SS Daphne II in North Sea, 18/3/1941: torpedoing of ship by German Navy Schnellboot S-102; problems evacuating ship; rescue from raft; pursuit of rescue ship by German Navy Schnellboot S-102; landing of survivors at Hartlepool, GB. Aspects of period as seaman with French Merchant Marine aboard aboard SS Armenier and SS Egee in North Sea, 1941-1942: short period sailing aboard SS Armenier, 1941; narrow escape during German Air Force raid on London, 1941; coastal convoys aboard SS Egee decision to join Free French Naval Forces, 1942. Aspects of period as steward at Surcouf Barracks, Free French Naval Forces, Clapham Common, London, GB, 1942-1945: duties; work in officers' mess. REEL 3 Continues: story of receiving permission to marry wife, 1942; prior recollection of German Air Force attacks on Liverpool 1941; reasons for settling in GB after Second World War; fate of family in Brittany, France during Second World War.

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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)
Raud, Emmanuel Adrien Marie (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2000-03-01
Dimensions: whole: Duration 80, Number Of Items 3
Catalogue number: 20135

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