Interview with Lancelot Graham Tyler

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British signalman served aboard HMS Belfast, 10th Cruiser Sqdn in GB coastal waters, Arctic and English Channel during landings in Normandy, France, 1943-1944; served on shore duties with Royal Navy Signal Station, Beachy Head, GB, 1944-1946

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REEL 1 Background in Leyton and Hastings, GB, 1924-1942: family; education. Aspects of period as private with 5th (Kettering District) Bn Northamptonshire Home Guard in Naseby, GB, 1940-1942: joining Home Guard; attitude to service in Home Guard; story of hospitality received from British Army personnel. Aspects of enlistment and training as signalman with Royal Navy in GB, 1942-1943: enlistment in Royal Navy, 12/1942; friction with instructor; story of post-war exercise with Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve; pattern of signal training; degree of general naval training at HMS Collingwood, Fareham. Recollections of operations as signalman aboard HMS Belfast,10th Cruiser Sqdn in GB coastal waters, Arctic and English Channel during landings in Normandy, France: playing golf with Admiral Robert Burnett; opinion of Captain Frederick Parham. REEL 2 Continues: fate of ship's white ensign after Battle of North Cape; further details of Admiral Robert Burnett's games of golf; joining ship in dock; 'land sickness'; location of mess; ship's cat; issue of sheepskin coats; watch system; signal practice ashore in Iceland; discipline on board; relations between officers and other ranks; story of relieving signalman whilst officer on board ship in later service; command structure on board and his place within it. REEL 3 Continues: leave; consumption of alcohol and tobacco; degree of contact with family members serving with Royal Navy during Second World War; convoy escort duties in Arctic; his abandon ship station; lack of contact with German Navy submarines; role during Battle of North Cape, 26/12/1943; story of narrow escape during post-war target towing; fate of German battleship Scharnhorst survivors; second hand story of German Air Force reconnaissance aircraft circling convoy; story of receiving amusing signal during post-war trip on submarine. REEL 4 Continues: visit by King George V at Scapa Flow; leave after Battle of North Cape; secondment to HMS Diadem; narrow escape from torpedoing during convoy escort aboard HMS Diadem in Arctic; conditions in Arctic; Admiral Robert Burnett talk in hangar; participation in D-Day landings, 6/6/1944; mining and sinking of HMS Swift, off Normandy, France, 24/6/1944. Aspects of period as signalman with Royal Navy Signal Station, Beachy Head, GB, 1944-1946: drafting to station after compassionate leave; meteorological work; duties at station. REEL 5 Continues: Reflections on service with Royal Navy and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, 1942-1972: reasons for HMS Belfast being a happy ship; period with Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve; story of visit to New Scotland Yard; commissioning as Sea Cadet officer with Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve; attitude to having served with Royal Navy during Second World War; story of post war signalling from ship on exercise with Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve; attitude to serving during Second World War; explanation of term 'backwards biffa'.

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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)
Brooks, Toby (Recorder)
Tyler, Lancelot Graham (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2006-04-12
Dimensions: whole: Duration 150, Number Of Items 5
Catalogue number: 28765

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