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British NCO served with 1st Bn, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaya, West Indies, GB, Kenya, Germany, Bahrain and Muscat, 1947-1968

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REEL 1 Recollections of background in Belfast, 1929-1947: family background and social circumstances; Catholicism and nature of sectarian problems with Protestants; education; role bringing up family following death of mother, 1942; selling newspapers on outbreak of war, 3/9/1939; father's war service and release due to wounds, 1939-1940; German air raids, ca 1941, including bomb damage, minor injury, question of air raid shelters and use of church cellar; food rationing; father's work as ARP warden; father's move to England, 18943; relationship with US soldiers; father's return and remarriage, 1944; work as bath attendant; work in linen mills and threat of sectarian violence; work as catch boy on riveting at Harland and Wolff shipyard, 19441-1945. REEL 2 Continues: work as catch boy on riveting at Harland and Wolff shipyard, 1944-1945, including repairs to Georgic, union membership and sectarianism; failed attempt to join army underage; training with Army Cadet Force, Royal Ulster Rifles, 1945-1947, including uniform, .22 rifle shooting, drill, PT, and question of sectarianism; VE Day celebrations, 8/5/1945; background to recruitment into Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 1/1947; family reaction. Recollections of conditions f service, lifestyle and daily routine during basic training with General Service Corps, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Depot, St Lucia Barracks, Omagh, ca 1/1947-4/1947: reception and initial homesickness; formation of squad; kitting out; barrack room accommodation; morning routine; food rations; pay. REEL 3 Continues: canteen; PT; detachment to improve physique to Physical Development Centre, Chester; rifle training and firing on ranges; Bren gun and hand grenade training; drill; educational classes; preparations for kit and room inspections and role of room orderly; relationship with recruits and instructors; passing out parade. Recollections of continuation training with North Irish Training Bde, Omagh, 4/1947-7/1947: fieldcraft training in concealment and movement. REEL 4 Continues: fieldcraft training including digging slit trenches and cooking; weapons training including PIAT, bayonet, Sten gun and 2 mortar; tactical training; composition of North Irish Bde and question of transfers between units; guard duty and 'stick man'; confinement to barracks; route marches; question of IRA threat; duties escorting prisoners; question of being underage for posting to Hong Kong; embarkation leave. Voyage with draft aboard Strahnaver to Hong Kong, ca 8/1947-9/1947: messdecks and hammocks; route; hair cuts; carrying repatriated Japanese POWs. REEL 5 Recollections of conditions of service, lifestyle and daily routine during period with Signals Platoon, Headquarters Coy, 1st Bn, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Murray Barracks, Hong Kong, ca 9/1947-6/1948: reception; specialisation as signaller; unit dispositions; 'prowler' sentry duties; rickshaws; Indian servants; nature of barracks; paper currency; canteen an story of getting drunk in Fleet Club; training as signaller including phonetic alphabet, method of setting up wireless net, wireless sets and aerials, use of slidex card code, voice procedure, question if heliograph lamps and use of Morse code and method of laying telephone lines. REEL 6 Continues: training as signaller including method of repairing telephone lines and types of line cable; presence of Burma veterans awaiting demobilisation; relationship with NCOs and officers; detachment to Whitfield Barracks, Kowloon; story of being frightened by 'ghost'; lorry journey to San Wei; Chinese use of excrement as fertilizer; edibility of flying beetles; relationship with Chinese civilians; exercises in San Wei sector; news of unit posting to Malaya during voyage back to GB. Period at Sellarang Barracks, Changi, Singapore, 1948: former use as POW camp; fights with 1st Bn, Seaforth Highlanders; internal security duties including method of controlling riots and possibility of shooting ringleaders. REEL 7 Recollections of operations in Johore Bahru area, Malaya, 1948-1949: situation; 'B' Echelon positions at Majidi Barracks, Johore; deployment to Kota Tinggi sector platoon detachment to protect rubber plantations; fireflies; MT escort duties; slit trenches; nature of sampan river and jungle patrols including role carrying 22 wireless set, composition, compo food rations, cooking methods, water supply, laying up sanpans, nature of jungle, night bivouacs, setting up wireless, use of groundsheet, sentry, air supply drops and story of parachute caught in tree, leech problem, jungle faunae,, mosquito problem and malaria precautions, encounter with Communist insurgents, necessity of securing corpses for identification purposes and role of Malayan police and Dayak trackers; story of attachment to Ferret Force acting on prior intelligence of Communist insurgent activity; suicide of captured Chinese insurgent; hut accommodation at Kota Tingi. REEL 8 Continues: local leave and recreations in Singapore; situation; question of qualification for Malayan Emergency medal. Voyage aboard Georgic to GB, 1949: question of imminent posting to West Indies; arrival in Belfast; Period at Ballykinler Camp, 1949: re-equipment with khaki drill; leave; canteens and cookhouse; relationship with recruits. Voyage aboard Empress of Australia to West Indies, 1949: prior period confined to barracks and punishment for going AWOL; storms and seasickness. Period at Uppark Camp, Kingston, Jamaica, 1949-1951: nature of camp; visit to Newcastle hill station; role during hotel workers strike at Montego Bay; recreations and story of fight with Jamaican nationalist in night club; relationship with Jamaican and British civilians; story of meeting wife and marriage, 1950. REEL 9 Continues: relief by 1st Bn, Royal Welsh Fusiliers and stories of goat mascot; voyage back to GB; promotion to lance corporal and passing 2nd class education certificate; relationship with ORs. Period at Dover Castle, 1951-1952: question of posting to Korea; nature of family accommodation at Corsham Camp; promotion to corporal; guard duties and raising flag; ghost rumours and practical jokes; attending and passing signal instructors' course. Period at assistant instructor with North Irish Bde, Omagh, 1952: background to remaining behind with pregnant wife on unit posting to Egypt; nature of married quarters; disciplinary role. Period as signals instructor with 1st Bn, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Dover Castle, 1952-1953: promotion to signals sergeant; married quarters; nature of sergeants' mess and formal dinner nights; St Patrick's day celebrations. REEL 10 Continues; St Patrick's day celebrations; role lining streets during Elizabeth II coronation in London, 6/1953, including tent accommodation, blue uniform and marching to wrong march, reactions to news of posting to Kenya; role with rear party clearing camp; period in holding unit at Goodge Street, London. Recollections of operation against Mau Mau whilst based at Merv, Fort Hall and Mathega, Kenya, 1953-1954: review of flight out; rejoining unit and situation at Merv; Mau Mau initiation ceremonies; tent accommodation; role on posting as platoon sergeant to C Coy; move of C Coy to Fort Hall district; 'pepper pot' system of unit dispositions; nature of village defences including use of fixed line Bren guns and trip flares; response to Mau Mau attack on district officer; nature of Mau Mau threat and counter measures employed; Kikuyi circumcision parades. REEL 11 Continues: nature of ambush patrols; role as sergeants' mess steward at Meru; move to Mathega; recreational visit to Nairobi; relationship with British civilians community; detachment as instructor at East African Battle School, Nanuki, Kenya, 1954, including rifle grenade instruction, composition of school, question of learning Swahili, differing food habits of African and Arab soldiers and recall to unit; GB leave with family. Period at Dover Castle, 1954: attending weapons instructor course at Small Arms School, Hythe including Browning machine gun, Inerga rifle grenade, 3.5 anti-tank rocket launcher, night sound identification exercises and African trainees. Period at School of Infantry, Warminster, 1955-1956: role as demonstration battalion; question of becoming instructor; story of rescuing hare during exercise. REEL 12 Period as weapons instructor at RIF Depot, St Lucia Barracks, Omagh, Northern Ireland, 1956-1958: quality of National Service recruits; relationship with recruits; question of drill training; attending drill course at Guards Depot, Pirbright including inspections, ceremonial drill and word of command; relationship with recruits. Recollections of period with HQ Coy, RIF in Brook Barracks, Spandau, Berlin, Germany, 1958: prisoners held in Spandau Prison; state of unit and value of regimental system; nature of barracks; married quarters; situation; relationship with German civilians; question of arrest of British soldiers in East Berlin; role in event of Soviet invasion; and 'Rocking Horse' Exercise mobilisations to border; nature of exercises with US forces including British and US food rations and propaganda tannoy broadcasts; Allied parades; US entertainers including Bob Hope. REEL 13 Recollections of period at Wupperthal Barracks, Germany, 1958-1959: nature of barracks; status; attending course on Self Loading Rife (SLR) drill; opinion of SLR, Sterling Sub Machine Gun (SMG), Inerga rifle grenade and Wombat AT rocket; role as platoon sergeant in C Coy; attachment of bandsmen from 7th US Cavalry to learn Irish bagpipes; routine training; entering team in Nijmegen Marches competition. Period re-equipping at Worcester Barracks, 1959: arrangements for family accommodation; administrative role on promotion to quartermaster sergeant of C Coy and issue of khaki drill uniform; rear party role; flight out with advance party to Bahrain. Recollections of period at Jupur Barracks, Bahrain, 1959-1960: unit dispositions; C Coy role covering naval installations; nature of barracks and married quarters bungalow; drink restrictions. REEL 14 Continues: climate; visits of US supply ships; sergeants' mess; precautionary nature of unit role; role as quartermaster sergeant; operations deployed in Bahrami Oasis sector, Muscat, Oman including situation, crossing by LCT, SAR operations, stores carried on lorries, water supply from wells, diarrhoea outbreak caused by sterilisation error, surrounding villages and absence of Saudi Arabian insurgents, medical assistance to Muscat civilians, gift of chickens and flight back to Jufur; keeping chickens for eggs; shooting feral dogs; minimal contacts with Bahraini civilians; relief and flight to join rest of unit in Kenya. Recollections of period at Gil Gil Camp, Kenya, 1960-1961: married quarters; composition and role of 39th Bde; situation on deployment as 'point' battalion to Kuwait; preparations for active service; flight out to Kuwait; prior arrival of HMS Bulwark and Royal Marine detachment. REEL 15 Period on deployment in Kuwait, 1960: school billets; relieving Royal Marines on Muttlar Ridge; sangar defences and use of explosives to dig trenches; question of Iraqi threat; defensive dispositions on Iraqi border; climate; water and salt tablets; food rations; Kuwaiti ice cream van; question of artillery support; rest periods on HMS Bulwark and at oilfield facilities; relief and return to Kenya. Period at Kahawar Camp, Nairobi area, Kenya, 1961-1962: nature of married quarters and barracks; training for parade on presentation of new regimental colours and importance of regimental history; Waterloo Ball, 18/6/1962; judo lessons; outdoor cinema; question of approach of Kenyan independence; training exercises; attitude of Kenyan civilians to independence; troopship voyage via Cyprus to GN and meeting 2nd BN, RIF. Period at Norton Barracks, Gravesend, 1962. REEL 16 Period as instructor of OTC, Queen's University, Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland, 1962-1964: role training infantry sub-unit and government sponsorship of cadets' degrees; role running shooting team; relationship with students; question of sectarian conflict including precautions in moving weapons and opinion of role of 'B' Specials; hired married quarter accommodation; question of children's education; passing 1st Class Certificate of Education; visiting family. Rejoining unit at Norton Barracks, Gravesend, 1964. Period at Brook Barracks, Spandau, Berlin, Germany, 1964-1967: role with advance party checking and allocating married quarters; initial administrative role on promotion as Warrant Officer II with HQ Coy; composition of HQ Coy; relationship with and role of senior NCOs and officers; booms of Soviet jets flying over West Berlin; role on taking over as Company Sergeant Major of HQ Coy, 1966. REEL 17 Continues: nature of disciplinary offences; regimental success in boxing competitions; effects of English world cup success, 1966; acting as guard of honour on recovery of body from Soviet jet crash; posting as CSM to A Coy, 1966; organising darts competition to improve company morale; success in sports competitions; ceremonial parades. Period at Worcester Barracks, 1967: preparations for amalgamation or Royal Irish Fusiliers, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and Royal Ulster Rifles to form Royal Irish Rangers, 1968, including question of insignia, reactions, transfer to 2nd Bn, RIR, final parade and new uniforms. Period with 2nd Bn, Royal Irish Rangers at Gibraltar, 1968-1969: training role as CSM with D Coy; question of light infantry drill; role as CSM of Support Coy; PT running up Gibraltar Rock; organising socials in sergeants' mess. REEL 18 Continues: social functions in sergeants' mess. Period as Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant at Jerby Camp, Isle of Man, 1969: nature and role of camp; leaving family in Gibraltar; role and staff as RQMS. Period attached to Support Coy, 5th Bn, RIR, Duke of York Barracks, King's Road, Chelsea, London, 1969-1970: minimal role; staffing recruitment stand; married quarters; background to leaving army, 6/1970. Post-service career: assistance in securing work from Regular Forces Employment Bureau; work in security, 1970-1983question of acclimatisation to civilian lifestyle; membership of Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Assoc; opinions of army career and regimental traditions.

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Related period: 1990 to the present day (production)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Hart, Peter M (Recorder)
O'Neill, Jim (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2009-02
Dimensions: whole: Duration 540, Number Of Items 18
Catalogue number: 32388

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