Interview with Rosemary Slater

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British signaller served with Royal Corps of Signals in Singapore, Malaya, 1941-1942; private served with Women's Australian Army Service, Australia, 1942-1945; officer served with Women's Auxiliary Service (Burma) in India and Burma, 1945-1946

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REEL 1 Background in GB, Italy and Malaya, 1923-1940: family; education; life in GB and Italy; journey to Malaya, 1940. Recollections of period as signaller with Royal Corps of Signals in Singapore, Malaya, 1941-1942: background to joining Royal Corps of Signals; training; reaction to Imperial Japanese Army Air Service attacks, 12/1941; signals duties; situation of parents; evacuation of Europeans from area; father's attitude towards Japanese threat; father's escape to India. REEL 2 Continues: reaction to the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse off Malaya, 10/12/1941; evacuation with mother from Singapore, Malaya, 14/1/1942; arrival in Perth, Australia, 2/1942. Recollections of period as private with Australian Women's Army Service in Australia, 1942-1945: prior service with Women's Auxiliary National Service; joining Australian Women's Army Service; journey to Melbourne; living conditions and training at Ivanhoe Grammar School, Melbourne; posting to Second Army in Sydney; living conditions in tented camp; other women serving with Australian Women's Army Service; uniform; Australian culture; discipline; cypher duties; brother's service with Gurkhas. REEL 3 Continues: weapons training; rations; knowledge of internees in Australia; food and clothing rations; posting to Perth; meeting Royal Australian Navy personnel; presence of Free French Forces, Dutch and United States Navy personnel in Perth area; desire to go to India; background to leaving Australian Women's Army Service and joining Women's Auxiliary Service (Burma), 1945. Recollections of period as officer with Women's Auxiliary Service (Burma) in India and Burma, 1945-1946: arrival in Bombay, India, 8/1945; attitude towards India; arrival in Barrackpore, India; receiving uniform; training; posting to Toungoo, Burma; working in mobile and static canteens; visit hill station at Taunggyi, Burma; Japanese prisoners of war working as gardeners; question of Japanese resistance; Christmas day service, 25/12/1945; attitude of Allied troops towards Women's Auxiliary Service (Burma). REEL 4 Continues: death of brother in Malaya, 1946, joining father in Malaya; story of how her aircraft crash landed on journey to Rangoon, Burma; meeting Commandant Nin Taylor; memories of Major Lois St John. Recollections of period living in Malaya and Federation of Malaya, 1946-1959: meeting future husband, Jack Slater and his experiences as prisoner of war; long-term effects of prisoner of war experience; husband's posting to Penang with Criminal Investigation Branch, Federation of Malaya Police, 1948; dangers of life in remote villages; situation of her parents in Batu Gajah. REEL 5 Continues: experiences of husband's brother-in-laws. Aspects of life in Brunei, British Borneo, 1960-1964: husband's reaction to leaving Federation of Malaya and his posting to Brunei; Very Important Person (VIP) visits to Brunei; contrast of modern day Sultan of Brunei with his father; living conditions; having lunch with Lady Edwina Mountbatten the day before her death, 20/2/1960. Aspects of life in Federation of Malaya: welfare work of Lady Templer in Malaya; social life; question of race; memories of Lady Edwina Mountbatten. REEL 6 Aspects of period as officer with Women's Auxiliary Service (Burma) in India and Burma, 1945-1946: social life; socialising with officers; question of discipline; living conditions; attitude towards period with Women's Auxiliary Service; attitude towards life in Far East; Women's Auxiliary Service (Burma) reunions; prior recollections of life in Italy during 1930s.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), Second World War (content), 1945-1989 (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Smith, Lyn E (Recorder)
Slater, Rosemary (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2002-05-14
Dimensions: whole: Duration 180, Number Of Items 6
Catalogue number: 22724

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