Interview with Benjamin David Chapman

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Object description

British officer served with 1st Bn, Royal Norfolk Regt, 29th British Infantry Bde, 1st Commonwealth Div in South Korea, 10/1951-9/1952

Content description

REEL 1 Recollections of background in Norwich, GB, 1916-1936: family, social circumstances and father's military career; education; employment in flour mill. Aspects of period as private, NCO and officer with Royal Norfolk Regiment and Army Physical Training Corps in GB, 1936-1952: background to enlistment into Royal Norfolk Regiment, 1936; specialising in physical training; qualifying as gym instructor; commissioning in Army Physical Training Corps. Recollections of operations commanding A Coy, 1st Bn Royal Norfolk Regt, 29th British Infantry Bde, 1st Commonwealth Div in South Korea, 10/1951-9/1952: opinion of Company Sergeant-Major Paul Boxall. REEL 2 Continues: story of rescuing patrol trapped in minefield in No Mans Land; question of A Coy's role in action; opinion of Lieutenant-Colonel John Orbelar, Regimental Sergeant-Major William Gilchrist, Company Sergeant-Major Paul Boxall and Company Sergeant-Major Bert Fitt; relations with platoon commanders; command post dugout on Finger feature of Hill 355; role of office's servant; use of interconnected dugouts and communication trenches; mutually supporting platoon defensive positions; state of morale; opinion of National Service conscripts; welfare; daily routine duties; Officer 'O' Groups; leading patrols in No Mans Land; period in Samichon Valley; awareness of situation; opinion of American troops; question of Chinese People's Volunteer Army artillery fire. REEL 3 Continues: opinion of Chinese People's Volunteer Army and North Korean People's Army troops; lack of Chinese People's Volunteer Army attacks on A Coy positions; effects of cold conditions including uniform; necessity of heating dugouts; taking over old positions; latrines and burial of rubbish; officers' and sergeants' mess; drinking habits; question of casualties.

Object Details

Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), 1945-1989 (content), 1945-1989 (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Hart, Peter M (Recorder)
Chapman, Benjamin David (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2003-01-10
Dimensions: whole: Duration 90, Number Of Items 3
Catalogue number: 24733

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Associated people and organisations

Chapman, Benjamin David
Boxall, Paul Eric
Orbelar, John Hatton Rolt
Gilchrist, William John
Fitt, Bertie Robert
British Army
British Army, Royal Norfolk Regiment
British Army, Army Physical Training Corps
British Army, Royal Norfolk Regt, Bn, 1
British Army, British Infantry Bde, 29
British Army, Commonwealth Div, 1
Chinese Army, People's Volunteer Army
North Korean Army, Korean People's Army
Associated places

England, United Kingdom
Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
South Korea
Hill 355, South Korea
Samichon Valley, South Korea
Associated keywords

Cold War
Associated themes

Military Operations, 1945-1999: Korea, 1950-1953
Cold War, 1945-1991: Korea, Federation of Malaya and Vietnam, 1945-1991

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