Interview with Horace Cowley

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British seaman served aboard HMS Ilex, 3rd Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet in GB coastal waters, North Atlantic and Norway, 9/1939-5/1940; served aboard HMS Ilex, 2nd Destroyer Flotilla, Mediterranean Fleet in Mediterranean, 5/1940-9/1940; served aboard HMS Kos XXIII in Mediterranean, 10/1940-5/1941 including scuttling at Suda Bay, Crete, Greece, 20/5/1941; served aboard HMS Barham, Mediterranean Fleet in Mediterranean, 10/1941-11/1941 including sinking 25/11/1941; served aboard HMS Queen Emma during landings on Sicily, Italy, 7/1943 and Normandy, France, 6/1944; served aboard HMS Birmingham in GB coastal waters and Denmark, 1945

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REEL 1 Background in Oldham, GB, 1918-1937: family; education. Aspects of enlistment and training with Royal Navy in GB, 1937-1938: enlistment in Royal Navy, 1937; training in Portsmouth. Recollections of operations as seaman aboard HMS Ilex, 3rd Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet, GB coastal waters, North Atlantic and Norway, 1939-1940: drafting to destroyer in Mediterranean, 1938; action station; role of ship rounding up German merchant vessels in Mediterranean, 9/1939; sinking of German submarine U-42 in North Atlantic, 13/10/1939; behaviour of captive German submariners; action off Norway. Aspects of operations as seaman aboard HMS Ilex, 2nd Destroyer Flotilla, Mediterranean Fleet in Mediterranean, 5/1940-9/1940: move to Mediterranean, 5/1940; participation in sinking of Italian Navy cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni during Battle of Spada, 19/7/1940. Recollections of operations as seaman aboard HMS Kos XXIII in Mediterreanean, 10/1940-5/1941: drafting to anti-submarine warfare whaler; method of obtaining cook; role of ship in harbour defence at Suda Bay, Crete, Greece, 3/1941-5/1941; scuttling of ship to prevent capture at Suda Bay, Crete, Greece, 5/1940; ashore in Suda Bay, Crete, Greece. REEL 2 Continues: further details of German Air Force attack on ship; rescue from Suda Bay, Crete, Greece by HMS Hero. Recollections of operations as seaman aboard HMS Barham, Mediterranean Fleet in Mediterranean, 10/1941-11/1941 including sinking 25/11/1941: drafting to battleship; discipline aboard; action station; duties with bosun's party; torpedoing and sinking of ship by U-331, 25/11/1941; escape from ship and period in sea; rescue by HMS Hotspur; condition he was in on rescue and later hospitalisation in Durban, South Africa. Recollections of operations as seaman aboard HMS Queen Emma during landings on Sicily, Italy, 7/1943 and Normandy, France, 6/1944: drafting to ship at Algiers, French Algeria; German Air Force attack on ship in Augusta Harbour, Sicily, Italy REEL 3 Continues: work on davits during landing of Canadian Army troops in Normandy, France, D-Day, 6/6/1944; attitude to serving on board ship; later story of drafting to HMS Birmingham and operation to Copenhagen, Denmark to apprehend German Navy cruisers Prinz Eugen and Konigsberg, 5/1945; attitude to having served with Royal Navy 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)
Cowley, Horace (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2001-10-15
Dimensions: whole: Duration 75, Number Of Items 3
Catalogue number: 22134

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