Mortimer, Geoffrey Lansdell (Oral history)

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Object description

British officer served with 4th Bn Parachute Regt, 2nd Independent Parachute Bde in Italy and southern France, 1943-1944

Content description

REEL 1 Recollections of operations as officer with C Coy, 4th Bn Parachute Regt, 2nd Independent Parachute Bde in Italy and southern France, 1943-1944: story of three man patrol in which eleven German POWs and a machine gun where captured in Italy, 26/12/1943; conversation with US pilot Captain Clark prior to landings in Southern France, 8/1944; character of landing and capture of objective in Southern France, 8/1944; German colonel refusal to surrender to him because of his junior rank; final surrender of Germans; reads war office account of his attempt to get Germans to surrender and his comments.

Object details

Category: Sound
Related period: Second World War (content)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Thompson, Julian (recorder)
Mortimer, Geoffrey Lansdell (interviewee/speaker)
Production date: 1992
Dimensions: whole: Duration 30, Number Of Items 1
Catalogue number: 21048

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