Martin, Roy (Oral history)

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Description

Object description

British NCO served with in Royal Army Ordnance Corps in GB and Korea, 1951-1953

Content description

REEL 1 Recollections of background in Southgate, London, 1932-1950: family background and social circumstances; education; evacuation to Stalham, 1939, including reaction, billets in shop, question of homesickness and return to London, 1940; German air raids; Anderson shelter and use of Southgate underground station as air raid shelter; coincidence of pigeon owners bombed; personal morale; food and clothes rationing; education; recreations and sporting activities; family military service; street parties on end of war; various jobs and work at sweet factory, 1946-1950; call up for Royal Army Ordnance Corps, 9/1950. Recollections of conditions of service, lifestyle and daily routine during basic training at Royal Army Ordnance Corps Depot, Aldershot, 9/1950-1/1951: reception; kitting out hair cut; barrack room accommodation; morning routine; food rations; drill. REEL 2 Continues: PT; minimal rifle training on range; learning to drive Bedford lorry; relationship with recruits, instructors and officers; preparing for kit and room inspections; canteen; passing out as driver. Recollections of period as driver at Central Ammunition Depot, Kuyton, 1/1951-1/1952: conditions of service; role distributing food rations around camp area; transport of guard dogs; role driving officers; driving ammunition lorries in convoy; boxing activities; relationship with ORs and NCOs; acting as beater for fox hunts; embarkation leave and reactions to draft to Korea. Voyage aboard Empire Fowey to Pusan, Korea, 1/1952-2/1952: conditions and state of morale; rough seas. REEL 3 route and visits ashore; rifle shooting; reception at Pusan; opinion of Salvation Army. Recollections of period with RAOC unit, Seoul, Korea, 2/1952-1/1953: contacts with American troops during train journey to Seoul; VD (venereal disease) inspections and prior warning films; conditions of service and lack of duties on move into transit camp; move into mobile laundry in former college buildings; duties as driver; opinion of jeep use to carry personnel on visits to Imjin River area; driving Matador to collect food supplies; driving Bedford lorry in bombed out area; classroom accommodation; Australian food rations and parcels; perimeter defences and treatment of North Korean caught in camp; South Korean boy killed in accident; South Korean servants; relationship with NCOs; promotion to corporal in charge of transport section; local leave in Tokyo, Japan; relationship with South Korean civilians; story of accidental shooting of South Korean servant. REEL 4 Continues: restriction on national servicemen length of service in Korea; cold conditions and special uniform; role driving food supplies for nearby units. Voyage back to GB, 1/1953-2/1953. Demobilisation, ca 2/1953. Post-service career: work as lorry driver; attending annual camps as army reservist, 1953-1955; attempts to find old comrades and membership of British Korean Veterans Assoc.

Object Details

Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), 1945-1989 (content)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Hart, Peter M (Recorder)
Martin, Roy (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2007-07
Dimensions: whole: Duration 120, Number Of Items 4
Catalogue number: 30011

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