Interview with Alfred William Broderick Hunter

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British sapper and NCO served with 388th Coy, 47th (Durham Light Infantry) Anti-Aircraft Bn, Royal Engineers in GB, 3/1938-8/1940; NCO served with 388th Bty, 47th (Durham Light Infantry) Searchlight Regt, Royal Artillery, 43rd Anti-Aircraft Bde and 57th Light Anti-Aircraft Bde, 7th Anti-Aircraft Div in GB, 8/1940-1/1942; served with 112th (Durham Light Infantry) Light Anti-Aircraft Regt, Royal Artillery, 5th, 61st and 45th Anti-Aircraft Bdes, 9th Anti-Aircraft Div, 3rd Anti-Aircraft Group and XII Corps in GB, 1/1942-6/1944; served as driver with 112th (Durham Light Infantry) Light Anti-Aircraft Regt, Royal Artillery, 100th Anti-Aircraft Bde, XII Corps in North West Europe, 6/1944-5/1945

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REEL 1 Recollections of background in Newbottle, GB, 1916-1939: family; social circumstances; membership of Boy Scouts and Boys' Brigade; education; memories of miners strike, 1926; employment as apprentice joiner on building sites and as joiner with water company, 1930-1938; Aspects of period as sapper and NCO with 388th Coy, 47th (Durham Light Infantry) Anti-Aircraft Bn, Royal Engineers in GB, 4/1938-8/1940: background to recruitment to unit, 3/1938; nature of Livingstone Road Drill Hall, Sunderland and motor transport vehicles; kitting out; drill nights and weekend training. REEL 2 Continues: crew roles on searchlight and sound locator; rifle training; question of light infantry pace drill; opinion of various officers and NCOs; attitude of employers to Territorial Army service; mobilisation, 1/9/1939; distribution of company sections; role as motorcycle despatch rider; composition of unit. Aspects of period as NCO served with 388th Bty, 47th (Durham Light Infantry) Searchlight Regt, Royal Artillery, 43rd Anti-Aircraft Bde and 57th Light Anti-Aircraft Bde, 7th Anti-Aircraft Div in GB, 8/1940-1/1942: role of unit acting as homing beacons to aircraft; role in tracking German Air Force aircraft; living conditions; relations with civilians. REEL 3 Continues: role as motorcycle despatch rider including issuing stand to warnings, motorcycles used, maintenance; kit inspections; use of hutted accommodation; daily routine; canteen arrangements; rations; ablutions and latrines; question of German Air Force raids on Teeside; changes in personnel; conversion of unit to anti-aircraft role training on Bofors Gun, 1/1942. REEL 4 Continues: prior recollection of winter conditions, 1939-1940. Aspects of period as NCO with 112th (Durham Light Infantry) Light Anti-Aircraft Regt, Royal Artillery, 5th, 61st and 45th Anti-Aircraft Bdes, 9th Anti-Aircraft Div, 3rd Anti-Aircraft Group and XII Corps in GB, 1/1942-6/1944: accommodation in theatre at Buxton, 1/1942-2/1942; nature of Bofors Gun; firing at drogues on move to Stiffkey, 2/1942; training as driver and driver/mechanic; movements; German Air Force low-flying raids on coast of Southern England; deployment to guns sites in South Wales; unit officers and gunners; pattern of movements, training, living conditions and personnel; routine of maintenance of vehicles. REEL 5 Continues: method of driving in convoys; types of motor transport used; waterproofing at Southborough. Recollections of operations as driver with 112th (Durham Light Infantry) Light Anti-Aircraft Regt, Royal Artillery, 100th Anti-Aircraft Bde, XII Corps in North West Europe, 6/1944-5/1945: crossing English Channel to Normandy, France, 6/1944; disembarkation on Gold Beach, Normandy, France; move inland and reception from French civilians; passing through Falaise Gap, Normandy, France, 8/1944; advance though France and Belgium; firing on German Air Force aircraft in Nijmegen, Netherlands; advance into Germany and VE Day, 8/5/1945; reception from German civilians; unit role guarding German prisoners of war and Displaced Persons. REEL 6 Continues: awareness of concentrations camps; leaving unit; demobilisation and bounty pay, 12/1945; later call-up on Army Z Reserve to join 325th Light Anti-Aircraft Regt, Royal Artillery (TA) at Towyn, GB, 7/1952-8/1952.

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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)
Moses, Harry (Recorder)
Hunter, Alfred William Broderick (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2001-11-09
Dimensions: whole: Duration 180, Number Of Items 6
Catalogue number: 22611

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