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British NCO and officer served with Royal Corps of Signals in GB, India, Burma, Cyprus and Malaya, 1938-1971.

Content description

REEL 1: Aspects of period in Hampshire, GB, 1917-1936: family background, childhood and education; employment with grocer; joined Territorial Army; reason for joining Regular Army, 9/1936; training at Catterick. Aspects of operations with Royal Corps of Signals in India and Burma, 1/1938-4/1948: posted to Quetta; opinion of accommodation and living conditions; description of carrying wireless set and batteries on mule; role in support of Gurkhas on North West Frontier and at wireless station in Quetta; size of radio set and batteries; method of sending and receiving messages; use of dumdum bullets by tribesmen; attitude to climate; opinion of Indian Army troops and question of loyalty; role in charge of HQ command wireless station in Quetta; reaction to outbreak of war, 9/1939; story of marriage in Quetta; posted as instructor to Signals Training School for officers in Mau, 1941; story about reunion with daughter; posted to Imphal; story of killing three Japanese soldiers at commissioner's bungalow; moved into Imphal Box, 3/1944. REEL 2 Continues: relieved in Imphal Box, 18/Jul/1944; description of Imphal Box and terrain; problem of supplies dropped by air landing on Japanese; opinion of Japanese soldiers; rations; description of washing and sanitary facilities; reason for using brown toilet paper; problem of sores over body; story about abscessed tooth being extracted; frequent bouts of malaria; problem of personal hygiene; question of rations being shared equally regardless of rank; comradeship; relieved and followed Japanese to Rangoon; role in providing line and wireless communications with troops; returned to post as instructor at Signals Training School for officers in Mau, end of 1944; story about death of friend Benny; reaction to end of war, 1945; posted as instructor to Depot at Fareham, Hampshire, GB, 4/1948; commissioned as captain. Aspects of post-war service with Royal Corps of Signals in GB and Cyprus, 1955-1971: story of bullet flying through car while on duty in Cyprus; description of signals duties in Cyprus; story of working at Ministry of Defence in London and as ADC to Lord Avon. REEL 3 Continues: Aspects of operations with Royal Corps of Signals in Malaya, 1951-1954: role with communications and administration based in Singapore; comparison of Malaya and India; accommodation with wife in married quarters; sporting activities. Story of retirement and assisting police with crime prevention in Bishops Stortford, GB.

Object Details

Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), Second World War (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: Everett, Zofia (Production Company)
Everett, Zofia (Recorder)
Etherington, Ronald Steven (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2015-08-26
Dimensions: whole: Duration 65, Number Of Items 3
Catalogue number: 34241

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Etherington, Ronald Steven
British Army, Royal Corps of Signals
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India
Burma
Cyprus
Malaya

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