Interview with Kenneth Albert Ryland

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British gunner served with 2nd Maritime Regt, Maritime Royal Artillery aboard SS Hilary in North Atlantic, 1942-1943; served aboard MV Diloma in North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and Pacific, 1943-1945; private served with Corps of Military Police in Germany, 12/1945-11/1946

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REEL 1 Background in Painswick, GB, 1923-1942: family; education; employment. Aspects of enlistment and training as private with 70th Bn Gloucestershire Regt in GB, 1942: rejection of application to join Royal Navy; reception on arrival at Reservoir Camp, Robinswood Hill; pattern of training; anti-aircraft duties at HMS Heron, Royal Naval Air Station Yeovil; training; move to Ilfracombe for further training; disbandment of unit. Aspects of training as gunner with 2nd Maritime Regt, Royal Artillery in GB, 1942: move to Fife; first leave and issue of kit; gunnery training at Portobello, Edinburgh. REEL 2 Continues: move to Liverpool. Aspect of operations as gunner with 2nd Maritime Regt, Maritime Royal Artillery aboard SS Hilary in North Atlantic, 10/1942-2/1943: joining ship; first convoy to New York, United States of America, 10/1942; ashore in New York, United States of America, 31/12/1942; convoy to West Africa; being shadowed by German submarine, 10/1942; items brought back from West Africa. Recollections of operations as gunner with 2nd Maritime Regt, Maritime Royal Artillery aboard MV Diloma in North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and Pacific, 1943-1945: joining tanker in Glasgow as anti-aircraft gunner; accommodation; description of flying bridge on board; duties on United States of America seaboard; escort for convoy to Mediterranean; Italian Air Force attack; transporting American military personnel to Port Said, Egypt; transporting fuel from Persian Gulf. REEL 3 Continues: reaction to sight of dead bodies in streets in Calcutta, India; attack on convoy off coast of India; attitude to service on board tanker; voyage to Australia; stay on sheep station in Australia; meeting nurse in Newcastle, Australia; voyage to Papua New Guinea; playing cricket against Australian military personnel; voyage to Philippines; use of smoke screen during air raids; incident of shooting down Imperial Japanese Army Air Service aircraft; threat of Imperial Japanese Army snipers ashore in Philippines. Aspects of period as gunner with Maritime Royal Artillery in GB and Belgium, 1945: return to GB; meeting future wife. REEL 4 Continues: duties in Southport, GB; move to Belgium, 12/1945. Recollections of period as private with Corps of Military Police in Germany, 12/1945-11/1946: attitude to service with Corps of Military Police; attending military police training school in Germany; duties in Kiel; posting to Flensburg; searching for smuggled petrol; relations with German civilians; learning to drive; dealing with American on field phone; move to German Police Headquarters in Düsseldorf; duties in Düsseldorf. REEL 5 Continues: relations with troops and visits to canteens; dealing with case of rape; discovery of concealed weapon on Canadian Army soldier; return to GB for demobilisation, 11/1946; demobilisation, 11/1946; return to civilian life and employment, 1947; 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)
Ryland, Kenneth Albert (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2004-10-11
Dimensions: whole: Duration 150, Number Of Items 5
Catalogue number: 27312

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