Captured memories, 1930-1945 : across the threshold of war, the thirties and the war

497 Pages·2011·6.21 MB·English

by  Liddle

Dedication
This book is dedicated respectfully to the memory of all those whose 1939-45
lives are documented in the Second World War Experience Centre in Walton,
near Wetherby, in North Yorkshire, and to the continued secure development of
the archive for the nation

First published in Great Britain in 2011 by
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Copyright © Peter Liddle 2011
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Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
SECTION ONE – THE THIRTIES
1 Wilfred Shaw – Poverty and the Search for Employment
2 Humphrey Prideaux – Eton, Oxford, Germany and India with his British
Army Regiment
3 Annie Millar – Working Class Upbringing in Glasgow
4 George Savile – The Education of a Gentleman
5 Joseph Reck – An Orphanage Upbringing in Preston
6 Barbara Castle – Labour Party Conviction and Activism in Oxford and
Bradford
7 Peter Hill-Norton – Dartmouth and the Making of a Naval Officer
8 Oswald Mosley – Fascism in Britain
SECTION TWO – 1939–1945
AT SEA
1 Loftus Peyton-Jones – Arctic Convoys, Battle of the Barents Sea,
Submarine Loss, Capture, Escape, and Successful Evasion
2 Frank Arkle – St Nazaire Raid, Severe Wounds and Captivity
3 Vernon Upton GM – The Merchant Navy in Wartime and Leadership in
Lifeboat Survival
4 Henry Leach – Loss of his Father at Sea, the Sinking of Scharnhorst
5 Clarence Smith – USS West Virginia and Disaster at Pearl Harbor
IN THE AIR
1 George ‘Ben’ Bennions – Battle of Britain Pilot
2 John Cunningham – Night-Fighter Pilot with Radar
3 William Reid – Lancaster Bomber Pilot VC
4 C.K. ‘Tuck’ Belton, American Air Force Pilot – Shot Down Over
Europe, Successful Evader and Work with the Dutch Resistance
5 Heinz Migeod – Luftwaffe Pilot and his National Socialist Beliefs
ON LAND
1 Chandos Blair – Capture 1940, Escape 1941
2 Roland Gibbs – Retreat and Advance in North Africa 1942/3
3 Eric Wilson – A Victoria Cross in Somaliland
4 James Dunning – Commando Training, the Lofoten Islands and Dieppe
Raids
5 Richard Wood – The Management of Personal Disaster in North Africa
6 Joachim Ronneberg – Norwegian Leader of the Telemark Raid
7 Mike Gibson Horrocks – Infantry Action in Italy from Cassino
Northwards
8 Gerhard Kaeppner – A German in the fighting for Cassino and Normandy
9 James Bradley – Prisoner of the Japanese, the Siam/Burma Railway,
Escape and Japanese Retribution
10 David Smiley – Household Cavalry in the Middle East and North Africa,
SOE in Albania and Siam
11 Sidney Scroggie – A Scot's way to Triumph over Disaster in Italy
12 Tony Younger – Dunkirk 1940, D-Day 1944, Crossing of the Rhine 1945
13 John Killick – Arnhem, Capture and Captivity
14 Rodney Percy – Factory Work, Home Guard and Burma
ON THE HOME FRONT
1 Mary Blackmore – Hull Blitz, Women's Land Army and Bletchley Park
2 Irene Broughton – Mill Girl, Wartime Bride, and Pregnant Widow
3 Madge Wear – Overseas Evacuee Escort and Bermondsey Blitz Re-
housing
4 Bill Wootton – Bomb Disposal in London
5 Frank Robinson – Bevin Boy in a Yorkshire Pit
6 Joan Bright Astley – In Corridors of Power
7 Fanny Hugill – The Wrens, D-Day and Admiral Ramsay
8 John Bishop – A Conscientious Objector
9 Maria Jankowska – A Polish Woman and Resistance, the Warsaw
Uprising
10 Manya Stern – A Polish Jewess, Life under German Occupation, Forced
Labour, Bergen-Belsen
11 Patricia Solk – ATS Driver, Mechanic and Dispatch Rider