Interview with William Henry Duddridge

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British gunner served with 30th Field Regt, Royal Artillery, 4th Indian Infantry Div in North Africa, Italy and Greece, 3/1943-5/1945

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REEL 1 Background in South Wales and Bridgwater, GB, 1923-1942: family; education; story of involvement in road accident; employment in laboratory at Royal Ordnance Factory, Bridgwater. Aspects of enlistment and training as private with 70th Bn South Staffordshire Regt in GB, 1942: reasons for volunteering for military service; enlistment at Norton Barracks, Worcester; basic training; posting to Saltburn-by-the-Sea; airfield perimeter guard duties at RAF Ouston; posting to Northallerton; duties with intelligence section. Aspects of training as gunner at School of Artillery, Larkhill Camp, GB, 1942: training as battery surveyor; posting to 30th Field Regt, Royal Artillery at Langham, 1943. Aspects of voyage aboard HMT Banfora from GB to French Algeria, 3/1943: conditions aboard ship; disembarkation in French Algeria. REEL 2 Continues: Aspects of operations as gunner with 30th Field Regt, Royal Artillery, 4th Indian Infantry Div in Tunisia, 3/1943-5/1943: tented accommodation; opinion of Bedford and Morris trucks; role of unit and organisation; entering Tunis, 5/1943; opinion of General Harold Alexander. Aspects of period with gunner with 30th Field Regt, Royal Artillery, 4th Indian Infantry Div in French Algeria and Egypt, 5/1943-2/1944: move by cattle trucks to Bougie, French Algeria; story of French Police gendarme; memories of Algiers, French Algeria; drinking muscatel; move into Atlas Mountains, Tunisia/French Algeria; story relating to unit bombardier; voyage from French Algeria to Egypt, 1944; leave in Cairo, Egypt; move to Port Said, Egypt. Aspects of voyage aboard HMT Orontes from Port Said, Egypt to Naples, Italy, 2/1944: action station in engine room; description of padded cell on ship. Aspects of operations with 30th Field Regt, Royal Artillery, 4th Indian Infantry Div in Italy, 2/1944-11/1944: description of Monte Cassino area after capture of Monte Cassino Monastery; psychological problems caused by childhood road accident. REEL 3 Continues: unit location at Monte Cassino; story of motorcycle crash; death of regimental sergeant-major; use of Willys Jeeps to carry casualties; story of burying German corpse. Aspects of operations with 30th Field Regt, Royal Artillery, 4th Indian Infantry Div in Greece, 11/1944-5/1945: voyage from Bari, Italy to Piraeus, Greece; memories of Athens; move to Salonika; accommodation in civilian house; duties in regimental office; contracting sandfly fever; home leave; story of attending philosophy course in Perugia, Italy. Post-war life and employment: demobilisation in Woolwich, GB, 1946; employment with Prudential Insurance and Ministry of Health; story of psychological breakdown and treatment, 1948; attitude towards military service.

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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)
Baker, Lindsay (Recorder)
Duddridge, William Henry (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2003-07-18
Dimensions: whole: Duration 90, Number Of Items 3
Catalogue number: 25193

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