Interview with Ernest John Rooke-Matthews

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British private served with 9th Bn Parachute Regt, 3rd Parachute Bde, 6th Airborne Div in GB and North West Europe, 1943-1945

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REEL 1 Background in East Ham, GB, 1924-1942: family; education; evacuation to Felixstowe and Treherbert; return to East Ham; German Air Force raid during football match 1941; German Air Force parachute land mine blast, 3/1941; clerical work at Mile End Hospital, London; membership of 15th (East Ham) Bn County of London Home Guard. Aspects of enlistment and training with British Army in GB, 1942-1943: basic training at Perth; aptitude tests; Royal Armoured Corps wireless operators course at Barnard Castle; volunteering for Parachute Regiment. REEL 2 Continues: Aspects of training as private with Parachute Regiment in GB, 1943-1944: parachute training at Airborne Forces Regimental Depot, Hardwick Hall and No 1 Parachute Training School, RAF at RAF Ringway; shoulder injury received during parachute training. Aspects of period as private with 9th Bn Parachute Regt, 3rd Parachute Bde, 6th Airborne Div at Bulford Camp, GB, 1944; nature of exercises in preparation for invasion of Normandy, France; practise attacks on mock battery at Inkpen, 5/1944. Recollections of operations as wireless operator with Signals Platoon, 9th Bn Parachute Regt, 3rd Parachute Bde, 6th Airborne Div during attack on Merville Battery, Normandy, France, D-Day, 6/6/1944: kitbag-tied-to-leg system; method of leaving Douglas Dakota aircraft; accuracy of his landing on drop zone; situation at assembly point; problems with communications; job he was given for attack on battery with Sergeant Sidney Knight. REEL 3 Continues: sight of glider landing over start line for attack on battery; role during attack. Aspects of operations as wireless operator with Signals Platoon, 9th Bn Parachute Regt, 3rd Parachute Bde, 6th Airborne Div in Normandy, France, 6/1944-8/1944: role of unit in holding line on extreme left of bridge head; flesh wound received from shrapnel; receiving message from his brother; work repairing broken signal lines; mishap he had crossing canal, 18/8/1944; wounding by artillery fire, 18/8/1944; medical treatment received for wounds in GB, 1944. Aspects of operations as private with Signals Platoon, 9th Bn Parachute Regt, 3rd Parachute Bde, 6th Airborne Div in North West Europe, 12/1944-5/1945: move to Ardennes, Belgium, 12/1944; parachute drop during Operation Varsity over River Rhine, Germany, 24/3/1945; advance into Germany; return to GB, 1945. Aspects of operations as privte with 9th Bn Parachute Regt, 3rd Parachute Bde, 6th Airborne Div in Palestine, 1945-1947: arrival in Palestine, 9/1945; cordon and search operations. REEL 4 Continues: degree of danger experienced; attitude to searching religious sites.

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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)
Rooke-Matthews, Ernest John (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2001-05-31
Dimensions: whole: Duration 95, Number Of Items 4
Catalogue number: 21591

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