Interview with Sidney Walter Petherbridge

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British telegraphist served aboard HMS Barham, Mediterranean Fleet in Mediterranean, 6/1941-11/1941 including sinking, 25/11/1941

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REEL 1 Background in Winchester, GB, 1923-1939: family; reaction to declaration of Second World War, 3/9/1939. Aspects of enlistment and training as boy telegraphist with Royal Navy in GB, 1939-1941: reasons for wanting to join Royal Navy, 1939; training as boy telegraphist, 1939-1941; period as boy telegraphist and telegraphist aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth in Mediterranean, 1/1941-5/1941. Aspects of period as telegraphist aboard HMS Barham, Mediterranean Fleet in Mediterranean, 6/1941-11/1941: torpedoing of battleship by German submarine U-331, 25/11/1941; rescue by HMS Hotspur, 25/11/1941. Aspects of period as telegraphist aboard HMT Samaria, USS Plunkett, USS Mayrant, HMS Keppel and HMS Queen Elizabeth in North Atlantic and Indian Ocean, 1941-1945: role guarding Italian prisoners of war aboard HMT Samaria on passage to Mombasa, Kenya; duties aboard United States Navy destroyers USS Plunkett and USS Mayrant; duties as telegraphist aboard troopship HMT Queen Elizabeth in North Atlantic; duties aboard HMS Keppel during action against German submarines in North Atlantic, 9/1943; ashore in Polyarno, Soviet Union, 9/1944. REEL 2 Continues: further details of naval career in 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)
Petherbridge, Sidney Walter (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2001-10-04
Dimensions: whole: Duration 35, Number Of Items 2
Catalogue number: 22126

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Interview with Sidney Walter Petherbridge

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