Read, David Haxton Carswell (Oral history)

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Description

Object description

British NCO served with Royal Army Service Corps in GB and Malaya, 1957-1964, and with Royal Corps of Transport in GB and Germany, 1964-1970.

Content description

REEL 1: Aspects of period in London, GB, 1939-1957: family background and childhood in East End of London; description of air raids and shelters, including bomb damage to home; education; air raid drill in school; story of school being destroyed in air raid; family moved to West Ham after war; further education; story of beating bully in boxing match; activities with street gang; left school age 14; artistic interests and training at technical school; description of employment as apprentice silk screen printer and in iron foundry; wages; story of girlfriend's pregnancy; further comments on activities with street gang; story of meeting future wife. Aspects of period with Royal Army Service Corps in GB, c.1957-1962: reason for volunteering for Royal Army Service Corps; posted to Aldershot; issued with uniform; accommodation in Buller Barracks; description of training including NCO course, weapons training and training as driver; story of joining Royal Army Service Corps Band as drummer at Buller Barracks; duties with band at shows and parades; trained as clerk to No. 2 Bn, 1960; story of parents being visited by MI5; posted to No. 1 Army Air Supply Organisation, Swindon; duties and roll with strategic reserve on standby; accommodation; story about burst appendix; posted to Malaya, 1962; description of flight from London to Changi Airport. REEL 2 Continues: Aspects of period with Royal Army Service Corps in Malaya, 1962-1964: posted to transit camp in Singapore; description of barracks and facilities at HQ Far East Land Forces; duties as clerk; rank; story of being told about Brunei revolt by Gurkha officer, 12/1962; duties taking details of fatalities during Brunei revolt and notifying next of kin; journey to Malaya on phone duty; story of being threatened by communist insurgents in Singapore and interrogation by MI6; frequency of kidnapping and assaults on army personnel in Singapore; relations with local civilians; story of helping to capture spy; returned to GB and demobilized, 1964; civilian resettlement course with River Authority; story of re-enlisting with Royal Corps of Transport for six years; posted to Aldershot. REEL 3 Continues: Aspects of period with Royal Corps of Transport in GB and Germany, c.1964-1970: passed test as lorry driver and posted to Army School of Transport, Longmoor Camp, Hampshire; duties as staff car driver for Colonel; story about driving General home; posted to 54 Sqdn Royal Corps of Transport, Minden, Germany, 1968; attitude to not receiving Brunei medal; duties with 54 Sqdn; opinion of posting in Germany; story of writing to Speaker of House of Commons and paying £200 to leave army. Various memories of civilian life and employment in Yorkshire. Story about saving life of Chinese child in Singapore.

Object Details

Category: Sound
Related period: 1945-1989 (production), 1945-1989 (content), 1945-1989 (association)
Creator: Yorkshire Malaya and Borneo Veterans Association (Production company)
Thompson, Paul (Recorder)
Read, David Haxton Carswell (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2012
Dimensions: whole: Duration 81, Number Of Items 3
Catalogue number: 34462

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Read, David Haxton Carswell
British Army, Royal Army Service Corps
British Army, Royal Corps of Transport
Associated places

Malaya
Borneo
Brunei
Germany

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