Interview with Frank House

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British marine served with A Bty, 2nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regt, Royal Marines, No 1 Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation in GB, Egypt, Crete, Greece, 1/1940-2/1942; served with 2nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regt, Royal Marines, 1st Royal Marine Group, No 1 Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation, Ceylon and India, 10/1939-1/1944; served with 3rd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regt, Royal Marines, 5th Royal Marine Anti-Aircraft Bde in GB and North West Europe, 3/1944-5/1945

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REEL 1 Background in Bath and Chard, GB, 1917-1939: family; education; employment. Recollections of period as marine with 2nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regt, Royal Marines, No 1 Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation in GB and Egypt, 1/1940-5/1941: reaction to call-up to Royal Marines; start of training at Yeovil; instructors; pattern of training; reasons for enlistment in Royal Marines; move to Lympstone; training at Lympstone; pride in regiment; move to Folkestone; gunnery training at Towyn; anti-aircraft work in Folkestone area; success of battery. REEL 2 Continues: recreational activities; firing on low-flying German Air Force aircraft; sight of Royal Air Force fighter aircraft attacking German Air Force bomber formations; awaiting embarkation at Horndean, 1/1941; reaction to sight of troops returning from Dunkirk Evacuation, 5/1940-6/1940; voyage aboard HMT Rangitata from GB to South Africa; training in desert in Egypt. Recollections of operations as marine with A Bty, 2nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regt, Royal Marines, No 1 Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation on Crete, Greece, 5/1941: Italian Air Force torpedo bomber aircraft attack on HMT City of Canterbury on voyage from Egypt to Crete; arrival at Suda Bay. REEL 3 Continues: proposed role of unit at Suda Bay; impressions of Australian Imperial Force troops; facilities at Suda Bay; role as machine gunner during German Air Force attacks on unit; German Air Force attacks on Royal Navy vessels; orders to stay behind with section when gun site evacuated; foraging for food; post-war visits to Crete; incident of corporal's psychological breakdown; encounter with drunken officer; foraging for food at abandoned regimental headquarters; march back to Suda Bay; German Air Force fighter aircraft attack on lorry. REEL 4 Continues: taking shelter in small Greek church; obtaining food from Australian Imperial Force troops; buying fruit from Greek civilian; activities on arrival at Spharkia; method of getting through checkpoint; story of wounded comrade who attempted to hold onto ship's rope during evacuation by HMS Phoebe, 1/6/1941; evacuation aboard HMS Phoebe from Crete. REEL 5 Continues: sight of German airborne forces landing on Crete, 20/5/1941; area where German airborne forces landed; firing on gliders; return to Egypt, 6/1941; treatment for dysentery on arrival in Egypt; threat of court martial; leave in Cairo, Egypt. Aspects of period as marine with 2nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regt, Royal Marines, 1st Royal Marine Group, No 1 Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation in Ceylon and India, 2/1942-1/1944: move to Ceylon, 2/1942; Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service attacks on Ceylon, 5/4/1942; route marches in monsoon; removal to Bombay, India, 1943; nature of training, 1943-1944; return to GB, 2/1944. REEL 6 Continues: Aspects of period as marine with 3rd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regt, Royal Marines, 5th Royal Marine Anti-Aircraft Bde in GB and North West Europe, 3/1944-5/1945: training in GB, 2/1944-6/1944; joining detachment to go to Utah Beach, Normandy, France, 10/6/1944; landing at Utah Beach in Normandy, France, 6/1944; death of marines on motorcycles; sight of German prisoners of war captured in attack on gun position; sharing rations with United States Army troops; joining rest of brigade near Caen, Normandy, France; attachment of brigade to First Canadian Army at Antwerp, Belgium. REEL 7 Continues: story of capture of Belgian civilian; opinion of Canadian forces; firing Ordnance QF 3.7 Inch Anti-Aircraft Gun at Walcheren Island, Netherlands, 11/1944 and in box barrages against German V2 Rockets; home leave in GB, VE Day, 8/5/1945; pattern of service on return to GB; demobilisation and return to civilian life, 1946; lessons learnt from service with Royal Marines.

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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)
House, Frank (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2004-04-15
Dimensions: whole: Duration 210, Number Of Items 7
Catalogue number: 26984

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