Interview with Alan Kennedy

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British NCO served with 1st Bn Cheshire Regt, Malaya Command in Federation of Malaya and Sarawak, British Borneo, 7/1957-7/1960

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REEL 1 Background in Stockport, GB, 1938-1956: family background; German Air Force raids, 1940-1941; use of Anderson Shelter; bomb damage in Stockport area; playing as child on bomb sites, relations with evacuees from outside Stockport area; food and clothes rationing; education; use of school air raid shelter, effects of father's absence away on military service, street party on VE Day, 8/5/1945; house party on return of uncles from war service on VJ Day, 15/8/1945; education and sporting activities; Boy Scout Movement activities; recreational activities. REEL 2 Continues: employment as van boy delivering milk from dairy to shops, 1952-1953; employment as apprentice motor fitter and attending night school, 1953-1956; deferment of National Service, 1956. Aspects of enlistment as private in Cheshire Regiment in GB, 10/1956: background to volunteering as regular soldier with Cheshire Regiment; educational tests; medical and parents' reactions to enlistment. Recollections of training as private with Cheshire Regiment Regimental Depot, Dale Barracks, Upton-by-Chester, GB, 10/1956-1/1957: prior training with Army Cadet Force at Armoury Drill Hall, Stockport including drill nights, weekend training, annual camps and learning to play side drum; period awaiting arrival of National Service intake; kitting out; hair cut; hutted accommodation; fatigues; joining squad; morning routine; rations; muster parade; drill. REEL 3 Continues; physical training including cross-country runs, route marches and assault course; introduction to rifle training; value of Army Cadet Force arms training experience; firing at Sealand Ranges including butt duty; zeroing rifle, principles of marksmanship and cleaning rifle; bayonet training; Bren Gun training including clearing stoppages and stripping down. REEL 4 Continues: weapons training including Sten Gun, hand grenade, Inerga Rifle Grenade, Projector Infantry Anti-Tank (PIAT) and Ordnance SMBL 2 Inch Mortar; gas mask training and gas chamber test; fieldcraft including map reading exercises, survival skills, overnight sheltering, camouflage and concealed movement; tactical exercises and digging trenches; lectures on regimental history. REEL 5 Continues: preparing for kit and room inspections; importance of competition in promoting co-operation between recruits; relations with fellow recruits, instructors and officers; canteen; recreational visits to public houses in Chester including fights with local civilians; final exercise and tests; passing out parade, 1/1957. REEL 6 Continues: boxing activities; fire picket and guard duties and role of 'stick man'. Aspects of period as instructor with Cheshire Regiment Regimental Depot, Dale Barracks, Upton-by-Chester, GB, 1/1957-5/1957: attending lance corporal cadre, 1/1957-2/1957 including training in command skills, assessment and promotion to lance corporal; role as squad instructor; case of deserters; enforcing discipline; nature of corporals' mess; question of drinking habits. Recollections of period as private with Mortar Platoon, Support Coy, 1st Bn Cheshire Regt at Barnard Castle, GB, 5/1957-6/1957: reaction to news of posting to Federation of Malaya; background to posting to Support Coy and loss of rank; armament and organisation of Support Coy; memories of various privates, NCOs and officers in battalion REEL 7 Continues: reception; living conditions; training on Ordnance BL 3 Inch Mortar including crew roles, sighting on aiming stick, drill on dropping into action, bedding in rounds to fix base plate, firing drill under instruction from mortar fire controller (MFC), method of fusing bombs and firing speed; formation of mortar team with Privates Ray Potter and Peter Doyle; jungle training including method of making shelters, tracking skills, silent signals, question of washing and cooking using hexamine block stove; question of role as rifle platoon in Federation of Malaya; embarkation leave and reaction of parents to overseas posting. Aspects of voyage aboard HMT Empire Orwell from GB to Singapore, Federation of Malaya, 6/1957-7/1957: conditions; question of seasickness in Bay of Biscay; presence of bumboats at Port Said, Egypt. REEL 8 Continues: passing through Suez Canal, Egypt; cinema shows; conditions on board and sleeping on deck in Red Sea; swell and seasickness in Indian Ocean; Vickers Machine Gun practice off stern of ship; visit to Aden, Aden Protectorate; story of swimming off ship's side; visit ashore at Colombo, Ceylon; disembarkation and first impressions of Singapore, Federation of Malaya. Aspects of period as private with 1st Bn Cheshire Regt, Malaya Command in Nee Soon Camp, Singapore, Federation of Malaya, 7/1957: reception; hutted accommodation. Recollections of period as NCO with 1st Bn Cheshire Regt, Malaya Command at Jungle Warfare School, Kota Tinggi, Federation of Malaya, 7/1957-8/1957: tin hutted accommodation; nature of instructors; character of Dyak and Iban trackers; nature of jungle terrain and rubber plantations; casualties amongst Malay rubber tappers; methods of making basha; sentry duty; stand to; skills employed in passing through jungle terrain including crossing rivers and swamps; tactics. REEL 9 Continues: 'Tiger' patrols using different formations; Atap trees; leeches and snake problem. Recollections of operations with Support and A Coy 1st Bn, Cheshire Regt, Malaya Command in Federation of Malaya, 9/1957-9/1958: company dispositions; tented accommodation at Labis Camp; briefing for search and destroy jungle patrols; composition of patrol and weapons carried; lack of insignia and badges of rank worn on patrol; preparations for patrolling and kit carried, use of Humber Pig and method of dismounting; use of helicopter and roping down onto landing zone; jungle navigation and role of Iban trackers; patrol formation adopted; fatigue and wet conditions; use of salt, anti-malarial and water sterilisation tablets; attacks of diarrhoea on patrol; roles of 'point' and 'tail-end Charlie' in patrol; rest periods and question of cigarette smoking. REEL 10 Continues: presence of snakes on patrol; selection of overnight stopping points; use of basha and hammocks; sentry rota; rations and cooking; disposal of rubbish and latrine discipline; nature of 'silent' patrol conditions, problems establishing No 36 Wireless Set contacts; use of machete; leech, snake and insect problem; dawn stand to; changing wet and dry uniforms; rum ration; discovery of traces of Malayan National Liberation Army insurgents; collection by Humber Pig or helicopter; debriefing; rest periods in Cameron Highlands. REEL 11 Continues: repairs carried out during periods between patrols; air supply drops from No 55 Air Despatch Coy, Royal Army Service Corps; letter contact with GB; canteen and drinking habits; rest periods on Penang Island; move to Gamas Camp, 1/1958; patrols in Mount Ophir area including problems of mountainous terrain, lack of contact with Malayan National Liberation Army insurgents, personal morale, story of being caught in swamp at nightfall on 21st birthday due to inexperience of officer, 10/2/1958; relations with officers including Major Peter Martin and Lieutenant John Bennett; opinion of Regimental Sergeant-Major Ted Talbot; move to Segamat Camp, 6/1958; recreational visits to Segamat; story of NCO's navigational error on patrol; role as corporal commanding patrols; performance of National Service conscripts. REEL 12 Continues: Operation Tiger in Mersing, 9/1958-10/1958, including situation, deployment of co-ordinated patrols, rendezvous and briefings; setting up ambush positions on River Endau; sighting Malayan National Liberation Army insurgents, opening fire and shooting insurgent Siow Thiam; recovery and and identification of Siow Thiam's corpse and personal reaction to incident. Aspects of period as NCO with 1st Bn Cheshire Regt, Malaya Command at Selarang Barracks, Singapore, Federation of Malaya, 10/1958-7/1960: nature of barracks; Indian contractor and role of civilian workers; egg banjos; return to mortar role; story of muster parade held by Regimental Sergeant-Major Ted Talbot illustrating return to regimental discipline; civilian suits. REEL 13 Continues: role as company orderly corporal; sporting activities; nature of corporals' mess special functions and drinking habits. Aspects of period as NCO with 1st Bn Cheshire Regt, Malaya Command in Sarawak, British Borneo, 9/1958-10/1958: detachment of 'A' Coy for Exercise Cobra Head in Sarawak including voyage from Singapore to Kuching, presence of band, situation, patrols accompanied by Sarawak Rangers, terrain, contacts with local population and state of morale. Aspects of period as NCO with 1st Bn Cheshire Regt, Malaya Command at Selarang Barracks, Singapore, Federation of Malaya, 10/1958-7/1960: return to Singapore; riot control methods and target-led fire procedure employed during civil disturbances in Singapore; preparations for embarkation, 7/1960. Aspects of voyage aboard HMT Oxfordshire from Singapore, Federation of Malaya to Southampton, GB, 7/1960-8/1960: reception at Southampton, GB, 8/1960. Aspects of period as NCO with 1st Bn Cheshire Regt at Durranhill Camp, Carlisle, 10/1960-12/1960: prior leave and reception in Stockport; nature of Durranhill Camp; reception on regimental marches through Cheshire. Aspects of period as NCO with 1st Bn Cheshire Regt at Abercorn Barracks, Ballykinlar, Northern Ireland, 1960-1962: initial impressions of Northern Ireland; situation and internal security duties with Royal Ulster Constabulary; character of final years of National Service; opinion of Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Martin; reorganisation of Support Coy and attachment of Mortar Platoon to B Coy; exercises at Lough Erne including Fighting in Built Up Areas (FIBUA) tactics and use of ranges. REEL 14 Continue: leaving British Army, 1963. Reflections on military service: role with Cheshire Regiment Association including reunions, acting as secretary and chairman of Stockport Branch of Cheshire Regiment Association, announcement of disbandment of 3rd Bn Mercian Regt, 7/2012 and question of role of Territorial Army; employment as lathe operator with engineering firm; view of career with British Army.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), 1945-1989 (content), 1945-1989 (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Hart, Peter M (Recorder)
Kennedy, Alan (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2012-09-04
Dimensions: whole: Duration 420, Number Of Items 14
Catalogue number: 33387

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