Doyle, Robert Andrew (Oral history)

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Object description

Irish machine gunner served with No 2 (Machine Gun) Coy, British Bn, XV International Bde in Spain, 8/1937-3/1938; prisoner of war in San Pedro de Cardeña Prison, Burgos and Ondarreta Prison, San Sebastian in Spain, 4/1938-2/1939

Content description

REEL 1 Aspects of period as machine gunner served with No 2 (Machine Gun) Coy, British Bn, XV International Bde in Spain, 8/1937-3/1938: background to going to Spain; story of journey to Republican Spain, 8/1937; reasons for allocation to training at Officers' Training School, Tarazona de la Mancha; capture at Belchite, 2/1938. Aspects of period as prisoner of war in San Pedro de Cardeña Prison, Burgos and Ondarreta Prison, San Sebastian in Spain, 4/1938-2/1939: treatment in San Pedro de Cardeña Prison, Burgos; interrogation by Germans during imprisonment; release from imprisonment; return visits to Spain.

Object Details

Category: Sound
Related period: Interwar (production), Interwar (content), Interwar (association)
Creator: Asociacion de Amigos de las Brigadas Internacionales (Production company)
Asociacion de Amigos de las Brigadas Internacionales (recorder)
Doyle, Robert Andrew (interviewee/speaker)
Production date: 2008
Dimensions: whole: Duration 36, Number Of Items 1
Catalogue number: 33026

Object associations

Associated people and organisations

Doyle, Robert Andrew
International Brigade, XV, Bn, British
International Brigade, XV, Bn, British, Coy, 2 (Machine Gun)
International Brigade, XV, School, Officers' Training, Tarazona de la Mancha, Spain
Spanish Prisoner of War Camp, San Pedro de Cardeña Prison, Burgos, Spain
Spanish Prisoner of War Camp, Ondarreta Prison, San Sebastian, Spain
Spanish Army, Republican Army
Associated events

Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
Associated places

Ireland
Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Spain
Tarazona de la Mancha, Castilla la Nueva, Spain
Belchite, Aragon, Spain
Associated themes

Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

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Doyle, Robert Andrew (Oral history)

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