Interview with Harold Malcolm Collier

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British officer served aboard and commanded HMS Anglia at Gibraltar, 11/1939-11/1941; served aboard HMS Argus in Mediterranean, 11/1941-5/1942; commanded HMT Valse in North Sea, 9/1942-8/1943; commanded HMS Burdock in North Atlantic and English Channel, 3/1944-6/1945

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REEL 1 Background in Goole, GB, 1917-1937: family; apprenticeship with Merchant Navy; attending nautical school; joining Associated Humber Lines. Aspects of training with Royal Naval Reserve in GB, 1938-1939: joining Royal Naval Reserve; training aboard HMS Iron Duke and HMS Antelope, 2/1938-5/1938; attending gunnery course at Devonport, 4/1939-6/1939. Recollections of operations as officer aboard and commanding HMS Anglia at Gibraltar, 11/1939-11/1941: joining Armed Boarding Vessel at Gibraltar, 11/1939; character of ship and crew; duties; discipline problem; crew accommodation on board; boarding ships; boarding and seizing cargo steamer; conversation with escaped prisoners of war; relations with Spanish vessels encountered; boarding Spanish vessel containing girls. REEL 2 Continues: etiquette for board; picking up French Navy personnel from French Fleet. Aspects of operations as officer aboard HMS Argus in Mediterranean, 11/1941-5/1942: joining aircraft carrier; participation in convoys to Malta; wounding on flight deck; description of aircraft carrier; character of Captain George Philip; organisation of Malta convoys; conditions on Gibraltar; background to recall to GB, 1942. Aspects of operations commanding HMT Valse in North Sea, 9/1942-8/1943: taking command of anti-submarine warfare trawler, 9/1942; story of being accidentally shelled by Royal Navy cruiser at night; organisation of coastal convoys; position in convoy. REEL 3 Continues: Recollections of operations commanding HMS Burdock in North Atlantic and English Channel, 3/1944-6/1945: background to taking command of corvette, 3/1944; reaction of troops to sight of Women's Royal Naval Service personnel at Gibraltar; addition of anti-aircraft guns to ship; allowing crew to bathe; orders to provide anti-aircraft cover for Fighter Direction Tender 216 (FDT 216) during Operation Neptune, the landings in Normandy, France, 6/1944-7/1944; arrival off coast of Normandy, France, 6/1944; torpedoing of Fighter Direction Tender 216 (FDT 216) by German Air Force Junkers Ju 88 off Cherbourg, France and rescue of survivors, 7/7/1944; question of treatment of survivors at Portsmouth, GB; dealing with cramped conditions on board; character of corvettes. REEL 4 Continues: decommissioning ship at Rosyth, GB, 6/1945. Aspects of period as officer with Royal Navy during Second World War: qualities needed to captain a ship; depth charging of German Navy submarine; story of working with good looking member of Women's Royal Naval Service whilst Reserve Fleet officer on board cruiser HMS Emerald at HMNB Rosyth, GB, 6/1945-7/1945; commanding corvette HMS Rushen Castle in GB coastal waters, 11/1945-12/1945; attitude to service with Royal Navy in Second World War.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), Second World War (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
McDonough, Richard (Recorder)
Collier, Harold Malcolm (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2012-05-15
Dimensions: whole: Duration 120, Number Of Items 4
Catalogue number: 33190

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