Interview with Donald Eric Warburton

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British private served as medical orderly with 129th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Div in GB and North West Europe, 1940-1945

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REEL 1 Background in Derby, GB, 1919-1939: family; education; employment. Aspects of enlistment and training as medical orderly with Royal Army Medical Corps Regimental Depot, Boyce Barracks, Church Crookham, GB, 12/1939-3/1940: enlistment in British Army, 12/1939; introduction to military catering; adjusting to military life; rubella epidemic; opinion of basic training. Recollections of period as medical orderly with 129th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Div in GB, 3/1940-6/1944: posting to unit at Gillingham; initial training; character of unit including illiterate sergeant; memories of commanding officer Lieutenant-Colonel 'Popeye' Lister; graduating from orderly to nursing orderly; move to Rothamstead Park, 5/1940. REEL 2 Continues: move to Harpenden, summer 1940; method of learning to look after his personal comfort; move to Luton Hoo and Welwyn Garden City; initial experience of ward work; German Air Force attack on Welwyn Garden City; departure of Lieutenant-Colonel 'Popeye' Lister; move to Smeeth Paddocks near Ashford; utilisation of experience in building trade at Smeeth Paddocks, winter 1941-1942; accidental fire in accommodation at Smeeth Paddocks; move into stores work; casual approach to discipline of 'Lakri' Woods; use of forty eight and thirty six hour passes to get home on leave; reaction to proposal to form unit dance band; under German artillery fire at Dover Castle, 1942. REEL 3 Continues: start of skin disease centre at Penshurst; reasons for impetigo problem amongst troops; petrol pilfering problem at Penshurst; treatment available for impetigo; role of unit in reserve during German Air Force attack on Canterbury, 1942; driving training; attitude of Royal Army Service Corps personnel to driving ambulances; reasons for period of training at Barming Heath Military Hospital near Maidstone. REEL 4 Continues: emphasis on social life by staff in Barming Heath Military Hospital near Maidstone; six-month period of night duty at Kenfield Hall Hospital, Canterbury; 'Lakri' Woods reluctance to collect his Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE); incident of being placed on charge at Deal; caring for younger brother suffering from meningitis during leave in Derby; in secure camp at Rye; children asking for money in East End of London, 6/1944. Recollections of operations as medical orderly with 129th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Div in Normandy, France, 6/1944-8/1944: disembarking at Arromanches-les-Bains, 6/1944; reasons for associating Intermezzo from Cavalliera Rusticana with disembarkation, 6/1944. REEL 5 Continues: character of landing; removal of waterproofing from vehicles; first attempt to smoke army cigarettes; intervention by regimental sergeant-major during handling of mine casualty; move to Caen area; danger of German Army artillery counter-battery fire; handling casualties; orders to stay put under German forces' advance; friendly fire problem in Saint-Lô area; treatment of Germans and French civilians; work with casualty receiving station; story of French civilian women's pleasure in seeing soldiers bathing. Recollections of operations as medical orderly with 129th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Div in North West Europe, 8/1944-5/1945: contracting dysentery during advance to Louvain, Belgium, 9/1944. REEL 6 Continues: dealing with cases of venereal disease and scabies; problem of when to use penicillin; occasion when female civilian had cyst removed by unit at Louvain, Belgium; advance along Arnhem Corridor during Operation Market Garden, Netherlands, 9/1944; story of medical officer reaction to death of Royal Army Service Corps driver/batman to sniper fire; sight of dead German snipers who had tied themselves to girders on Nijmegen Bridge, Netherlands, 9/1944; need to withdraw from front line at Lent, Netherlands; his refusal to play football on a Sunday; contact with Salvation Army officers in Lent, Netherlands; eye injury caused by horse play. REEL 7 Continues: treating Dutch female collaborator for scabies; problems of sheltering from German Army artillery in terrain with high water table; role of 4th Bn Dorsetshire Regt in rescuing survivors from Oosterbeek Perimeter, Netherlands; reaction to crossing river on pontoon bridge; rest period in Tilburg, Netherlands, 12/1944; rapid move to Ardennes, Belgium, 12/1944; treating civilians for scabies in Ardennes, Belgium; move to Brunssum, Netherlands; story of young boy who prolonged his treatment and present he received from boy's mother; making friends with Salvationist family at Hoensbroek, Netherlands; question of competence of new medical officer and reaction of medical orderlies. REEL 8 Continues: crossing Siegfried Line, Germany; treating difficult abdominal wound case; sight of Canadian Army casualties at Kalkar, Germany; crossing of River Rhine at Wesel, Germany, 3/1945; adjusting to being under artillery fire; threat of booby-traps; dealing with casualty with hand grenade trapped in his pocket; sight of survivors at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, Germany, 4/1945; reason for issue of photographs of concentration camp survivors; arrival in Bremerhaven. Recollections of period as medical orderly with Royal Army Medical Corps in Germany, 1945-1946: move to Hanover; story of fraternisation with German children; move to Lüneburg; orders to set up venereal disease clinic in Lüneburg. REEL 9 Continues: obtaining equipment for venereal disease clinic; duties in venereal disease clinic; selection procedure for staffing clinic with civilian staff; number of patients using clinic; work regime; reasons why he stayed on beyond his demobilisation date; how his time at venereal disease clinic came to an end; send off he received from German civilian staff. Post-war civilian life and employment and reflections on military service in Second World War: demobilisation procedure at York, 1946; circumstances of his home coming in Derby, 1946; his wife's attitude to his wartime service with British Army; resuming civilian employment. REEL 10 Continues: pattern of civilian employment; question of how Second World War changed his outlook on life; attempt to obtain employment in the medical treatment of venereal disease; treating German prisoners of war during the 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)
Warburton, Donald Eric (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2001-11-02
Dimensions: whole: Duration 300, Number Of Items 10
Catalogue number: 22353

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