Interview with Donald Barton

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British civilian schoolchild in Chepstow, GB, 1939-1945; private trained with General Service Corps at South Wales Borderers Regimental Depot in Brecon, GB, 1946; served with 29th Infantry Leader Training Bn at Blackdown Camp, Frimley in GB, 1946; NCO served with King's Regt in Kington, GB, 1946-1947; served with 1st Bn Manchester Regt in Germany and GB, 1947-1948; civilian served as District Officer and District Commissioner with Colonial Administation Service in Tanganyika, 1952-1961

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REEL 1 Background in, GB, 1927-1939: family; education; family's movements during 1930s. Aspects of period as schoolchild in Chepstow in GB, 1939-1945: character of town; military presence in area; interest in aviation; membership of Air Training Corps, including aircraft flights; use of Link Trainer; Air Training Corps instructors; attending medical board for aircrew selection at RAF Bridgnorth; reasons for turning down short-term commission with Royal Air Force; interest in Africa; university applications. REEL 2 Continues: Aspects of training as private with General Service Corps at South Wales Borderers Regimental Depot, The Barracks, Brecon, GB, 1946: call-up for National Service, 1/1946; journey to Brecon; issue of kit; nature of hutted accommodation; reasons for cancellation of drill; character of instructors; swearing and instructors' banter; physical training; arms instruction; relations with fellow recruits; levels of health and fitness amongst recruits; opinion of rations; drill. REEL 3 Continues: allocation to physical training unit at Oswestry; repeat of further six weeks training at Brecon. Aspect of period as private with 29th Infantry Leader Training Bn at Blackdown Camp, Aldershot in GB, 1946: posting to unit; pattern of training; recruits' competing on appearance; tactical exercises and assault course training; use of hand signals; attending War Office Selection Board. Aspects of period as NCO with King's Regiment in Kington, GB, 1946-1947: joining unit in Kington; promotion to lance corporal; reasons for volunteering for Royal Army Education Corps; attending training course with Royal Army Education Corps and reasons for being returned to unit. REEL 4 Continues: attitude towards potential posting to Palestine. Recollections of period as NCO with 1st Bn Manchester Regt in Germany and GB, 1947-1948: joining unit; character of unit; role of battalion in Harz Mountains, Germany; attitude towards German population; relations between German civilians and British servicemen; accommodation in billets; background to becoming range finder instructor for heavy Vickers Machine Gun; visit to border. REEL 5 Continues: attending two week range takers course at the Heavy Weapons Wing, Netheravon in GB; return to Germany; attachment as guard to British High Commissioner to Germany; memories of Polish Displaced Person; flight in Taylorcraft Auster AOP aircraft; work as range taker; manoeuvres; loss of battalion heavy machine guns and Universal Carriers; promotion to sergeant and duties as education instructor; amusing stories relating to sergeants' mess; cases of selling cigarettes to Dutch civilians in Netherlands; return to GB; escorting prisoner to Shepton Mallet Military Prison from Liverpool; question of joining army and demobilisation. REEL 6 Continues: attitude towards and reflections on military service. Recollections of period as District Officer and District Commissioner with Colonial Administration Service in Tanganyika, 1952-1961: early interest in Africa; student studies on Tanganyika at University of Oxford; joining Colonial Administration Service; reasons for choice of Tanganyika; pattern of training; kitting out for tropical service; hospitalisation on arrival in Dar-es-Salaam; district officers. REEL 7 Continues: character of his first district; first safari accompanied by wife; role of district officer; degree of crime in district; powers of native courts; instances when colonial court used; other duties of district officers; dealing with problem of over erosion in his second district; use of 'common' labour for projects; reasons for abandonment of 'common' labour policy; how locals had tradition of self help in his last district, 1958-1961. REEL 8 Continues: reinstatement of compulsory forced labour after Independence; tribal composition of second district he was assigned to; duration and reasons for safaris; educational and financial issues; locations of tours; brief promotion to District Commissioner, 1954; reasons for move to district as married officer; influence of missionaries on district; character of district; character of inter-tribal relations; nature of politics in Tanganyika; development of nationalism and desire for Independence; question of need for crash plan for recruitment to civil service. REEL 9 Continues: character of Governor Edward Twining and influence of expatriot Europeans; multi-racial district councils; effect of arrival of Governor Sir Richard Turnbull on the Independence process in 1958; lack of interest in Independence from ordinary Tanganyikans; conduct of district councils; leaving Tanganyika, 1961; receiving letter from President Julius Nyerere asking British district commissioners to stay on in post; attitude to role of and work as District Officer and District Commissioner; lack of problems in transition from colonial government to independent state.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), Second World War (content), 1945-1989 (content), 1945-1989 (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
McDonough, Richard (Recorder)
Barton, Donald (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2012-10-09
Dimensions: whole: Duration 270, Number Of Items 9
Catalogue number: 33810

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