Hunt, Daniel 'Danny' (Oral history)

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British private and NCO served with Junior Leaders Bn in GB, 1958-1960; rifleman and NCO served with Green Jackets Depot in GB, 1960; NCO served with 2nd Green Jackets, The King's Royal Rifle Corps in Northern Ireland, West Germany, GB and Libya, 1960-1963; served with Green Jackets Depot in GB, 1963-1964; served with 2nd Green Jackets in GB, Singapore and Borneo during the Indonesian Confrontation, 1964-1965; served with 46 Army Youth Team in GB, 1965-1967; served with 2nd Green Jackets, The King's Royal Rifle Corps in West Germany from 1967

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REEL 1 Background in Wiltshire and Paddington, GB, 1942-1958: moves of family; memories of childhood; family home in Paddington; education; membership of with Army Cadet Force; decision to join army and reaction of parents; father's service during Second World War; departure from school; civilian work while at school; reasons for wanting to join army; process of joining army including medical; preparations for journey; train journey to Plymouth. Aspects of period as private and NCO with Infantry Junior Leaders Bn in GB, 2/1958-3/1960: drive to Crown Hill Barracks. REEL 2 Continues: description of barracks; background of recruits; activities on first evening; cleaning of barrack room and urinals; breakfast; issue of kit including cleaning of buttons; change into uniform; details of boots; issue and cleaning of Lee Enfield Mk IV Rifle; storage of kit; laundry; making of bed; discipline and punishments; pattern of training; role of unit; make-up of A Company. REEL 3 Continues: routine including elements of training; army education; terms and holidays; range in students; period kept in camp; civilian clothes brought for leaving camp; application for civilian clothes pass; inspection before departure from camp; leisure activities in Plymouth including punishment for drinking alcohol; activities on Saturday mornings; benefits of promotion; cycling trips; church parade; contact with padre; sports; activities as part of Duke of Edinburgh's Award including death of officer story of canoe exercise; trips to rifle ranges; rations including change in last six months. REEL 4 Continues: later contact with students; rank achieved; details of Outward Bound courses including hospitalisation with dysentery; passing out parade; background of permanent staff; description of battle dress issued; amalgamation of regiments to form unit joined; badges and titles; knowledge of unit. Aspects of period as rifleman and NCO with Green Jackets Depot in GB, 3/1960-9/1960: arrival in Winchester; learning of drill; weapons and fitness tests; passing out parade and promotion to lance corporal; background of and relationship with National Servicemen; changes to life after joining regiment; daily routine and duties; passing out parades; gift from first recruit platoon; shooting competitions; posting and journey to Ballykinlar. Aspects of period as NCO with 2nd Green Jackets, The King's Royal Rifle Corps in Northern Ireland, 9/1960-12/1960: platoon and company posting; description of barracks; situation in Northern Ireland; leisure activities in Belfast; question of security and threat. REEL 5 Continues: journey to Ballykinlar; arrival at barracks; reactions to situation; bugle calls including story of later gaining own call; routine; fatigues; details of NCO cadre attended including problems with heating in accommodation, period living in trenches and gaining of regimental cane; memories of fellow NCOs including help gained from them; preparations for posting to Berlin; story of all ranks dance; description of journey to Berlin. REEL 6 Continues: further details of journey to Berlin including background of section members and security measures and scenes in East Germany. Aspects of period as NCO with 2nd Green Jackets, The King's Royal Rifle Corps in West Germany, 12/1960-1962: arrival in Berlin and journey to Wavell Barracks; first impressions and details of barracks; description of accommodation blocks; Christmas 1960; rations; guard duties at Olympic Stadium; barrack guard duties; details of train guard duties including story of East German boarding and contact with Soviet troops; briefing on arrival in Berlin including restrictions on movement; story of cook held in East Berlin; gathering of intelligence; opinion of posting; division of Berlin. REEL 7 Continues: details of visits to East Berlin including relationship with civilians; details of pay and leisure activities; exercises in Grunewald including ambushing and working with US troops; story of beach landing exercise on frozen lake; Christmas 1961; internal security exercises including vehicles in battalion; involvement with shooting team including firing on rifle ranges, journeys to Sennelager and competitions at Bisley; story of first deployment with live ammunition during security alert over building of the Berlin Wall including details of anti-tank weapons and atmosphere among troops; story of second deployment including uniform worn. REEL 8 Continues: patrols along wall including scenes of civilians; use of brothel and Reichstag for observation post; relationship with civilians; building of Berlin Wall including reactions of civilians; description of patrols along wall; story of incident by Reichstag; reactions of civilians in West Berlin to wall; leisure activities; duties and training; journeys home on leave; later visits to Berlin; opinion of posting; posting to Colchester. Aspects of period as NCO with 2nd Green Jackets, The King's Royal Rifle Corps in GB and Libya, 1962-1963: description of barracks; weapons and grenade training. REEL 9 Continues: details of grenades; weekend activities; description of individual tests taken; details of section tests including memories of Fijians attached to battalion and encryption of communications; later changes to test exercises; story of night in Rutland; Christmas 1962. REEL 10 Continues: preparations for posting in Libya; details of journey to Libya including contact with parents and leave activities; building and description of camp; climate; exercises in desert; water; problems with sea; visits to Royal Air Force base and Derna; further details of exercises including description of the mobile bath unit and laundry; return journey to GB. REEL 11 Continues: division of Berlin; duties at Spandau Prison including memories of prisoners and later destruction of Spandau Prison; comparison of British and German barracks; transport; posting to Depot in Winchester. Aspects of period as NCO with Green Jackets Depot in GB, 1963-1964: accommodation; memories of National Servicemen; role in training recruits; background of recruits; story of illiterate recruit and help given to him; recruits failing to settle in army; passing out parades; involvement with shooting team including competitions attended; move into and description of Peninsula Barracks. REEL 12 Continues: posting back to battalion at Colchester. Aspects of period as NCO with 2nd Green Jackets, The King's Royal Rifle Corps in GB, 1964: reactions to posting to Malaysia; details of battalion exercise in Otterburn; memories of Fijians posted to battalion; map reading and signals training; promotion to platoon sergeant; embarkation leave including driving tests; journey to Singapore. Aspects of period as NCO with 2nd Green Jackets, The King's Royal Rifle Corps in Singapore and Malaysia, 1964-1965: details of camp; period of acclimatisation including leisure activities; journey into Malaysia; details of jungle kit issued including method of purifying water; pattern of jungle training including navigation. REEL 13 Continues: opinion of jungle; physical fitness; rations; need for live ammunition; US troops at jungle training school; story of argument between paratrooper and officer; preparations for patrols in jungle including uses of parachute silk; advice given to artillery officer; clothing worn and items carried in jungle including contents of First Aid Kit; use of vines for water; leisure activities; train and ferry journey to Penang; truck journey to barracks; details of barracks including accommodation; reactions to posting; training troops in use of compass; sports; climate; leisure activities including socialising with lower ranks. REEL 14 Continues: journey to and period at jungle training camp; question of training for becoming sergeant including role of sergeant and settling into sergeants' mess; reactions to promotion; details of exercise in swamp; examples of army slang; journey to camp for jungle survival training; accommodation and sleeping arrangements; gathering and trapping food including description of fish traps made; methods of tracking; wildlife and fruit in jungle; gaining of water; cleanliness; story of elephant in camp. REEL 15 Continues: description of journey away from training camp including relationship with civilians and rations; details and clearance of rubber plantations; reception from unit; knowledge of situation on Borneo; conditions during voyage to Borneo including sleeping arrangements and rations; activities during voyage; scenes on water; route taken; reactions to situation; voyage up river to Kuching. Aspects of operations as NCO with 2nd Green Jackets, The King's Royal Rifle Corps during Indonesian Confrontation, 1965: disembarkation; division of battalion; role of units on border; death of Rifleman Godfrey; description of barracks in Kuching. REEL 16 Continues: journey into to base in jungle including caution taken; details of base including relationship with Australian artillerymen; support given to Paratroopers including booby traps; building of helipads; use of helicopters; relationship with Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm pilots; loss of helicopter; further details of jungle base including organisation of fire and other defences; weapons in platoon including details of M79 grenade launcher; details of patrols including preparations and method of setting up an ambush; description of firefight and withdrawal from ambush position including help given to colleagues and wounds received by Rifleman Martin. REEL 17 Continues: description of withdrawal from ambush under fire; reactions to situation; intelligence later received about ambush and its results; return to area and changes in troops; story of rifleman's health problems during patrol including terrain; details of later patrols in same area and results including relationship with civilians; opinion of jungle; return journey to Penang; reactions on arrival. REEL 18 Continues: relationship with civilians including hearts and minds patrols and administering First Aid; make-up of patrols; ENSA concerts; handover of base to Gurkha troops; checking of kit in Kuching including details of identity discs; health problems among troops and treatment; reunion with Fijian officer and problems with leeches; sunburn among troops in Penang; treatment for thumb infection; opinion of medical staff; news of posting to GB; duties moving weapons between Penang and Singapore; items taken home; journey to GB; details and issue of pay; leave. REEL 19: Aspects of period as NCO with 46 Army Youth Team in GB, 1965-1967: arrival with unit in Woolwich; accommodation; role and duties; area covered; interest of public in army; organisation and activities of unit; clothing worn; relationship with civilians; meeting of wife; problems following engagement to a private; period in Scotland with Eton College Combined Cadet Force including searching of dead bodies; problems with posting including example of London to Brighton walk; period in charge of unit; liaison with Loughton Youth Club; relationship with East London children and youth clubs; posting to battalion; marriage and honeymoon including discharge of wife from army; accommodation; hospitalisation with malaria, early 1966. Aspects of period as NCO with 2nd Green Jackets, The King's Royal Rifle Corps in West Germany, from 1967: details of journey to Munster; accommodation; birth of first child; settling into life in Germany; details of shooting competitions at Sennelager and US School of Infantry.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Fitzgerald, Cathy (recorder)
Hunt, Daniel 'Danny' (interviewee/speaker)
Production date: 2008-04-28
Dimensions: whole: Duration 530, Number Of Items 19
Catalogue number: 31112

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