Interview with Ronald Walsh

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British schoolchild at Royal Hospital School, Ipswich, GB, 1933-1935; boy seaman served aboard HMS Iron Duke and HMS Glasgow in GB coastal waters, 1936-1938; deserter from Royal Navy in GB, 1938-1940; served aboard HMS Foylebank in Portland Harbour, GB, 6/1940-7/1940 including sinking by aircraft, 4/7/1940; served as Asdic operator aboard HMS Bulldog, 3rd Escort Group in North Atlantic, 2/1941-5/1941; served aboard HMS Windsor, 16th Destroyer Flotilla in North Sea and North Atlantic, 7/1941-9/1942; served aboard HMS Acute, 12th Minesweeping Flotilla in Mediterranean, 10/1942-4/1943; served aboard HMS Kingsmill in US, English Channel and during Normandy Landings, 10/1943-7/1944; various postings with Royal Navy and Fleet Air Arm, 1945-1950 and 1953-1969

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REEL 1 Background in Lymington, GB, 1920-1933: family; recreational activities. Recollections of period as schoolchild at Royal Hospital School, Ipswich, GB, 1933-1935: character of school; clothing worn; meal times; accommodation in houses; discipline and punishment; daily routine; subjects taught including knots; instruction in rifle firing; use of mast for illicit smoking; training on mast; quality of food; leave and inspections; terms by which pupils were taken by school; reasons for medical discharge and employment options; attitude to not getting into Royal Navy; period as deck boy with Merchant Navy after leaving school; enlistment in Royal Navy. REEL 2 Continues: Aspects of enlistment and training as boy seaman aboard HMS Iron Duke in GB, 1936-1937: strictness of boy service aboard ship; daily routine; instructors. Aspects of period as boy seaman aboard HMS Glasgow in GB coastal waters, 1937-1938: duties as captain's runner; running aground on beach at Weymouth; relations with officers; story of buying car and attitude of Captain Cyril Coltart to the purchase; punishment for returning late and decision to desert; story of deserting from Royal Navy, 1938. Aspects of period as deserter from Royal Navy in GB, 1938-1940: obtaining farm work in Wincanton; employment for butcher/slaughterman in Yeovil; van driving for carpet firm; attempt to enlist in Royal Army Service Corps, 1940; return to Royal Navy at Portsmouth. REEL 3 Continues: treatment on return and receiving King's Pardon. Aspects of period as seaman aboard HMS Foylebank in Portland Harbour, GB, 6/1940-7/1940: role of ship at Portland Harbour; characteristics of anti-aircraft ship; accommodation; action station as range setter on QF 3.5 Anti-Aircraft Gun; role maintaining and operating ship's motorboat; reasons for not wanting to operate motorboat; hearing William Joyce Lord Haw Haw's radio broadcast threats against ship; firing at German aircraft. Recollections of sinking of HMS Foylebank in Portland Harbour, GB, 4/7/1940: start of German Air Force attacks; casualties from German machine gun attacks and bombing of sick bay flat; Leading Seaman Arthur 'Badger' Otley's firing at German aircraft; injury from jumping down onto deck to abandon ship; witnessing Leading Seaman Jack Mantle's actions leading to his award of posthumous Victoria Cross; removing Leading Seaman Jack Mantle from his gun and evacuation to shore. REEL 4 Continues: survivors' leave; memories of Leading Seaman Jack Mantle. Aspects of training to be asdic operator with Royal Navy in GB, 8/1940-1/1941: role of Asdic operators; nature of Asdic; closing up of in Asdic cabinet; actions on receiving bearing on ship; loss of contacts; practising with submarines at HMS Nimrod, Campbletown using pre-war yachts. Recollections of operations as asdic operator aboard HMS Bulldog, 3rd Escort Group in North Atlantic, 2/1941-5/1941: escort duties in North Atlantic; character of destroyer; duties in Asdic cabinet; sweeping for submarines; effects of weather on operation; writing poetry in Asdic cabinet to pass time; sleeping in hammock after watch duties in Asdic cabinet. REEL 5 Continues: role of Americans in supplying escorts under Lend-Lease; loss of merchantmen in convoys; ship's actions on loss of ship in convoy; second hand story of HMS Bulldog's recovery of Enigma Machine from rammed German submarine U-110; weather conditions in North Atlantic; story of arrest in Liverpool for aiding looters and imprisonment on remind in Walton and Strangeways Prisons; judge's removal of Walsh and shipmate from dock and sentence of looters; seriousness of looting in wartime. REEL 6 Continues: Aspects of operations as Asdic operator aboard HMS Windsor, 16th Destroyer Flotilla in North Sea, English Channel and North Atlantic, 7/1941-9/1942: drafting to destroyer at Harwich, GB, 7/1941; escort duties in North Sea; collision with liberty boat in convoy in fog; dealing with damage from collision; visits to Iceland and Spitzbergen Island, 9/1942; clothing worn in poor weather conditions; patrols in English Channel; action station; amusing story of being covered in oil during action; threat of mines. Aspects of operations as Asdic operator aboard HMS Acute, 12th Minesweeping Flotilla in GB coastal waters and Mediterranean, 10/1942-4/1943: drafting to minesweeper in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 10/1942; joining huge convoy for North African landings, 11/1942; minesweeping duties off Algiers, Algeria. REEL 7 Continues: forming landing party to search brothels in Algiers, French Algeria; method of minesweeping mines; incident of accidentally towing mine; method of sweeping an area of mines; story of rowing across minefield to pick up documents from ship; occasion when ship's propeller was struck by torpedo which did not explode, 1/1943; character of wartime Gibraltar, 2/1943; dealing with Italian survivors aboard ship. REEL 8 Continues: how he came to leave ship; taking charge of Italian prisoners of war in Algiers, French Algeria; supplementing rations during train journey. Recollections of operations as Asdic operator aboard HMS Kingsmill in United States of America, English Channel and during Normandy Landings, 10/1943-7/1944: voyage aboard HMT Acquitania from GB to United States of America, 10/1943; standing by ship, 10/1943-11/1943; action station; sight of invasion armada, 5/6/1944; bombardment on D-Day, 6/6/1944; role of ship as makeshift hospital ship on D-Day, 6/6/1944; presence of medical staff on board. REEL 9 Continues: loss of Headquarters Ship HMS Lawford, 8/6/1944; patrolling against German one-man submarines; leave in beachhead in Normandy, France including going ashore on Gold Beach, walking through minefield, discovery of mines and hand grenades and obtaining lift to Bayeux; sight of Mulberry Harbours. Recollections of various postings with Royal Navy and Fleet Air Arm, 1945-1950 and 1953-1967: naval promotional system; promotion to petty officer; terms and conditions on which he signed on; drafting to HMS Hornet, Gosport; training as petty officer aircraft handler with Fleet Air Arm at HMS Siskin, Royal Naval Air Station, Gosport, 1947; period in command of fire crew at HMS Condor, Royal Naval Air Station Arbroath. REEL 10 Continues: background to leaving Fleet Air Arm for civilian employment with Dice Airport, 1950; transfer to Hurn Airport; decision to re-enlist in Royal Navy, 1953; drafting to communications training ship HMS Boxer; drafting as coxswain to ML 3512 in Hong Kong; patrolling against pirates and smugglers; voyage from GB to Hong Kong aboard HMT Empire Fowey including meeting with Private William Speakman VC; incident of patrol boat ML 1323 being shot up by Chinese Liberation Army Navy gunboat; armament of ML 3512; accommodation in Petty Officer's Mess; supplementing income at China Fleet Club; impressions of Hong Kong; drafting to HMS Charity in dock; drafting to minesweeper depot ship HMS Woodbridge Haven. REEL 11 Continues: attitude to service aboard ship; story of meeting member of Women's Royal Naval Service who later became his wife; story of organising shark fishing in Red Sea aboard HMS Woodbridge Haven; drafting to HMS St Brides Bay in Singapore, Federation of Malaya; drafting as coxswain to minesweepers HMS Wiston and HMS Coniston; role of coxswain; drafting as seamanship instructor to wooden HMS Unicorn in Dundee, GB; drafting to tank landing ship HMS Anzio in Bahrain; involvement in army exercises; story of not being recommended for rating up to chief petty officer and subsequent rating up; question of his record following him through his career; leaving ship in Malta, 1965. REEL 12 Continues: explanation of length of naval service; drafting to frigate HMS Lynx in Caribbean, 1966-1967; role patrolling Reserve Fleet in Whale Island, GB, 1967-1969; leaving Royal Navy, 3/1969; civilian employment with HMS Collingwood, Fareham, GB, 1970-1985. Aspects of service with Royal Navy, 1938-1969: watch system worked; role of Master-at-Arms; role of coxswain in supplying ship; discipline aboard ship; Sunday Divisions; 'make and mend'; seamen activities aboard ship; the rum ration. REEL 13 Continues: reasons for stopping rum ration; use of rum for bartering purposes; question of what makes a happy ship; attitude to having served with the Royal Navy, 1938-1969.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), Interwar (content), Second World War (content), 1945-1989 (content), Second World War (association), 1945-1989 (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
McDonough, Richard (Recorder)
Walsh, Ronald (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2004-10-08
Dimensions: whole: Duration 390, Number Of Items 13
Catalogue number: 27308

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