Oral History Recordings Index New Forest Remembers: Untold Stories of WWII
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Oral History Recordings Index New Forest Remembers: untold stories of WWII First Name Sec Surname Name Original File File Name (M0) MP3 File Folder Interviewer Date Signed Restrictions Topics Key words Notes Transcriber Transcribe Checked Transcri Archive Editor Public Edited Portal URL Article Name Biography Name Code Name .WAV Format Duration mame Recorded Release d ptions d Uploade d ANO 1 ANO001_0001M0 Yes 00:18:35 David Larder 015 06/02/2013 08/02/2013 ANONYMISE Key Words Krystyna 12/02/2013 02/07/2014 ANO001 recalls her summer visits as a child to East Boldre. Her Mother who came from the East Boldre area had East Boldre Truscoe a holiday home that they frequented during weekends and summer holidays away from Epsom, Surrey. She also ANO001 Shops spent a few weeks at Woodfalls near Salisbury on a cousin’s farm at the start of the war. Fuel rationing Outbreak of War Two shops in East Boldre are mentioned – Symes (A general store which sold sweets) and Mathews Bakery. At the US Army outbreak of War ANO001 remembers her father burying fuel cans in the gardens at Epsom and East Boldre for D-Day use in their car. Bomb shelters, RAF Beaulieu, and rationing are briefly mentioned. Steve Antczak S-A S-A015_0111 S-A015_0001M0 Yes 00:09:28 OH Master David Larder 015 11/12/2013 11-12-113 None Hamburg,Lymington Germany, Americans, England, tailor, Gustrow, John Martin 23/02/2014 02/07/2014 Steve was born in the New Forest but his father was born in Germany and known locally as ‘Klaus’. He was Recordings\ wartime stories, prisoner of war, Setley POW Camp, Hursley captured by American troops and taken prisoner of war. Although he didn’t like to talk about his experiences, Steve Steve Pack, bomb disposal, transport corps, navigate by pubs, says that his father found his way somehow to the POW camp in Setley. He met Steve’s mother on a bus and was Antczak - S- American camps, disgusting waste of food. able to stay in England by becoming a volunteer with bomb disposal. He remembers his mother telling some A humorous stories about her work in the Transport Corps. Roy Arnold R-A R-A007_0136 No 00:00:00 OH Master Sue Jackson 007 05/04/2013 05/04/2013 None Background silence N/A N/A Recordings\ Roy Arnold - R-A Roy Arnold R-A R-A007_0137 No 00:00:00 OH Master Sue Jackson 007 05/04/2013 05/04/2013 None Test - volume too N/A N/A Recordings\ Roy Arnold - R-A Roy Arnold R-A R-A007_0138 R-A007_0001M0 Yes 00:15:00 OH Master Sue Jackson 007 05/04/2013 05/04/2013 None Building trenches at Abbotswood School Leander 18/06/2013 01/12/2014 Roy Arnold born 1926 in Cadnam, New Forest. Roy was still at school in Totton at the outbreak of the WWII. After Recordings\ Working on the machines at Hampshire Carbodies Johnson schooling he went to work at Hampshire Carbodies in Totton where he worked in the sawmills, specifically on the Roy Arnold - Bombing of the tar distillaries Dovetail machines making ammunition boxes and work on wooden aircraft. His job was classified as a reserved R-A Reserved occupation occupation. In 1943 aged 17, Roy volunteered for the Air Training Corps and was trained as a Pilot Navigator Air Training Corps as PMB Bomb aimer (PNB). He joined up in 1944. Holmsley aerodrome Roy now lives in Ashurst, New Forest. Cycling across air fields Savoy Cinema bombing Sweet rationing More troops getting closer to D-Day Charles John Arnold CJA CJA015_0137 CJA015_0001M0 Yes 00:12:09 OH Master David Larder 015 04/03/2014 04/03/2014 None Canadian soldiers; US servicemen. Holmsley Airfield; German Sophie 11/06/2014 01/12/2014 John was three at the start of the war and lived at Thorney Hill (near Holmsley). John remembers Canadians at Recordings\ planes; bombs; Thorney Hill; German bomber crash; air raid; Larder Homsley, collecting items from the airfield, bombing of Southampton and Americans/Canadians burying equipment Charles burying US equipment. when they left. John Arnold - CJA Jill Avon J-A J-A007_Sound No 00:00:00 OH Master Sue Jackson 007 02/02/2013 23/07/2013 None Sound check N/A N/A N/A N/A Ready http://www.newfo Memories of a check Recordings\ restww2.org/me father’s death, Jill Avon - J- mories-of-a- Allum Green A fathers-death- House allum-green- house/ Jill Avon J-A J-A007_0001M0 Yes 00:00:54 OH Master Sue Jackson 007 02/02/2013 23/07/2013 None Stanley Avon Will Ward 15/03/2014 Gareth Owen Yes Ready N/A http://www.newfo Memories of a Jill’s father, Staff Sgt Stanley Henry Avon and three of his comrades, billeted at Allum Green House, near Recordings\ Jill Avon restww2.org/me father’s death, Lyndhurst, were killed in an air raid on 5 September 1940. Jill Avon - J- Jill Beattie mories-of-a- Allum Green A East Grenwich fathers-death- House After returning from Dunkirk in May 1940 and being sent initially to Aldershot, the Recovery Sections of No. 8 Army allum-green- Field Workshop, RAOC, were despatched to various locations around Burley, including the Village Hall and Woods house/ Corner, then to Testwood School in Totton. After each group was reassembled correctly, No. 2 Section was billeted at Allum Green House. They used the Imperial Garage (now the Meridien Modena Ferrari showroom) in Lyndhurst as their work base repairing and refurbishing damaged vehicles. No. 1 Section moved to Petersfield and No. 3 to Bishops Waltham. At about 11.15pm on 5 September 1940 there was an air raid, during which many large bombs fell around the house - the craters are still visible - and one went through the roof and the upper floor, where the officers were sleeping, and detonated in the cellar which was the Sergeants' Mess. Jill's father, Staff Sgt Stanley Henry Avon, and three others were killed. They were Sgt Alfred W. Blunn, Staff Sgt Edgar W.E. Gifford and WOII (SQMS) Harry S. Tyler. ‘I was only seven weeks old, and on the evening of 5 September my father posted a letter to my mother to say he had found someone who might help find a place locally for my mother and me to come and stay in order to be near him.’ (Jill Avon) There are two photos of the damage to Allum Green House. These were taken by Sgt Reg Shuker of No. 2 Section on the morning after the air raid. Photos courtesy of Sgt Reg Shuker's daughter Tina from Canada. Jill Avon J-A J-A007_0002M0 Yes 00:07:53 OH Master Sue Jackson 007 02/02/2013 23/07/2013 None Stanley Avon Will Ward 15/03/2014 Gareth Owen Yes Ready N/A http://www.newfo Memories of a Done Recordings\ Jill Avon restww2.org/me father’s death, Jill Avon - J- Jill Beattie mories-of-a- Allum Green A Allum Green House fathers-death- House allum-green- Horace Whitehouse house/ Arthur Haynes Harry Stanley Tyler Aldred William Blunn Edgar William Ernest Gifford Wilf Briggs Dunkirk 25th May 1940 1940 Lyndhurst Totton Burley Woods Corner RAOC Royal Army Ordinance Corps 8 Field Workshops 2 Recovery Section 3 Recovery Section British Expeditionary Force St John’s Ambulance Greenwich Air raid Bombing Jill Avon J-A J-A007_0003M0 Yes 00:07:16 OH Master Sue Jackson 007 02/02/2013 23/07/2013 None Stanley Avon Will Ward 15/03/2014 Gareth Owen Yes Ready Gareth Owen J-A007_0003A1 - The mystery of a http://www.newfo Memories of a Done Recordings\ Jill Avon father’s death restww2.org/me father’s death, Jill Avon - J- Jill Beattie J-A007_0003A1 - My father’s story mories-of-a- Allum Green A Allum Green House J-A007_0003A1 - Memorial to a lost fathers-death- House allum-green- Captian Sturridge father house/ Arthur Haynes Wilf Briggs Dunkirk 1940 Lyndhurst Totton Burley Woods Corner RAOC Royal Army Ordinance Corps 8 Field Workshops 2 Recovery Section 3 Recovery Section British Expeditionary Force Lymington Lymington Hospital Testwood school Air raid Bombing Jill Avon J-A J-A007_0004M0 Yes 00:00:13 OH Master Sue Jackson 007 02/02/2013 23/07/2013 None Stanley Avon Will Ward 15/03/2014 Gareth Owen Yes Ready N/A http://www.newfo Memories of a Done Recordings\ Jill Avon restww2.org/me father’s death, Jill Avon - J- Jill Beattie mories-of-a- Allum Green A Dunkirk fathers-death- House allum-green- 1940 house/ New Forest National Park Authority Lymington Town Hall, Avenue Road, Lymington, Hampshire SO41 9ZG Education and Outreach Officer Gareth Owen Tel. 01590 646652 Email [email protected] www.newforestnpa.gov.uk/wwii 1 of 32 Oral History Recordings Index New Forest Remembers: untold stories of WWII David Bayliss D-B D-B015_0135 D-B015_0001M0 Yes 00:21:46 OH Master David Larder 015 26/02/2014 26/02/2014 None Lymington, Woodside, school, games, school holidays, John Martin 20/05/2014 Lorie Coffey Sent on David Bayliss was a school boy during the war, living in Woodside, Lymington at that time. He recounts his school Recordings\ swimming, The Salterns, cinema, winter games, gulls’ eggs, air 13-4-15 days, the games they played and tricks that they used to get up to. He also recalls food rationing, his mother’s David raid, rationing, food, bombing, air craft crash, Perspex, Elmer’s ingenuity and going collecting gulls’ eggs, which he doesn’t fancy eating today, and having meals with the troops at Bayliss - D- fighter base, Thunderbolt P-36, wing tanks, canoes, carbide, Alder Cliff, Milford on Sea.