The Imperial War Museum has a large collection of sound recordings – some of which have been reviewed and summarised in respect of Gloucestershire aspects – this list below provides links to other recordings which will it is anticipated will be reviewed and summarised in the future. There are also a list of papers and photographs which may have some relevance to Gloucestershire.
Interview with Eric Ellis – pre war worked in a Shoe Factory.
Interview with Roy Ridgeway worked at Gloucester General Hospital as part of training as nurse as concientious objector
Interview with Cyril Brock Background in Grovesend and Tytherington, GB, 1922-1941: family; education, employment; aircraft crash in area. then joined forces
Interview with Reg Hunt – British child in Gloucester, GB, 1939-1945; trained as Chinese radio voice interceptor at Joint Services School for Linguists, RAF Wythall, GB, 1955-1956; served as junior technician with 367 Signals Unit, RAF in Hong Kong, 1956-1957
Interview with Harold William Henry McOwan British NCO served as driver with No 101 Repair and Salvage Unit, RAF in India and Burma, 2/1945-1/1946 and at RAF Seletar, Singapore, Malaya, 1946-1948 Background in Gloucester, GB, 1926-1939: family; education. Aspects of enlistment and training with Royal Air Force in GB, 7/1944-12/1944
Interview with Hugo Powell British civilian artist and conscientious objector served with Friends Ambulance Unit in GB, 1939-1941; served as surgical nurse with Hadfield-Spears Ambulance Unit, 1st Free French Div in Palestine, French Syria, North Africa, Italy and France, 1941-1945 hospital work at Gloucester City General Hospital, Gloucester
Interview with Kathleen Mary Franck British aircraftwoman served as clerk with Women’s Auxiliary Air Force at RAF Middle Wallop, GB, 1941-1942; NCO served as model maker with Women’s Auxiliary Air Force attached to V (Model Making) Section, Central Interpretation Unit, RAF at RAF Medmenham, GB, 1943-1945 trained at Gloucester – Innsworth
Interview with Rachel Foster British aircraftswoman served with Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in GB, 1941-1945 including at Bletchley Park and in Cabinet War Rooms training at Gloucester
Interview with Charles M Adams Background in Cheltenham, GB, 1921-1939: family; becoming apprentice draughtsman at Gloucester Aircraft Company Ltd, 1935 British NCO served as pilot with 48 Sqdn, No 16 Group, Coastal Command RAF in GB, 1940; NCO and officer served as pilot with 217, 42 and 22 Sqdns, No 18 Group, Coastal Command, RAF in GB, 1941-1942; officer served as pilot with 47 Sqdn, RAF in Egypt and Malta, 1942; served with with 42 Sqdn, South East Asia Air Command, RAF in India, Ceylon and Burma, 1942-1943; served on attachment to Second Chindit Expedition, Operation Thursday in Burma, 1944; served with No 308 Maintenance Unit, RAF in India, 6/1944-8/1945; served with Transport Command Development Unit, RAF at RAF Harwell in GB, 1945-1946; served as test pilot at Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough and with Westland Aircraft Ltd in GB, 1946; various postings with Royal Air Force in GB and West Germany, 1947-1960
Interview with Samuel Cawdron in gloucester for part of war
Interview with James Lague employment as machinist at Bryant & May match factory, 1946-1950, including sports activities and canteen. REEL 2 Continues: further details of employment as machinist at Bryant & May match factory, 1946-1950, including trade union activities; recreational activities and attending dances NB might not be Morland Match Factory
Interview with Mervyn Thomas James Stockham spent time training at gloucester
Interview with Leslie Bent called up to Reservoir Camp Gloucester
Interview with Kenneth Sidney Browning lived in Gloucester and called up to Gloucester Regiment
Interview with Matthew Cook War Artist with BGW Regiment (Off search topic)
Interview with Iona Craig freelance journalist in Yemen 2010 – 2011
Interview with Stephen Edmund Verney British civilian conscientious objector served with Friends’ Ambulance Unit in GB, Finland and Norway, 10/1939-8/1941; served with Friends’ Ambulance Unit attached to Hadfield-Spears Ambulance Unit in Middle East and North Africa, 8/1941-5/1943; private and officer cadet served with Royal Army Service Corps and Political Warfare Executive in Egypt, 1943-1944; served with Force 133, Special Operations Executive on Crete, Greece, 1944-1945 Porter at Gloucester
Interview with Reginald Veale no mention of Gloucester in summary
Interview with Catherine Lambert served with WAAF at Gloucester but also served in Barrage Balloons
Interview with Elizabeth Mahan who did basic training at Gloucester but also served in Barrage Balloons
Interview with Howard Chapman – pacifist spent sometime at Gloucester Hospital
Interview with Eagles, Anthony Paul Aspects of period as schoolchild in GB, 1939-1945: aftermath of German Air Force attack on Coventry, 11/1940; sight of bombing of Bristol, 1940-1941; German Air Force bombing of RAF Staverton, Gloucester and strafing of school playground.
Interview with Malcolm Hancock – taught at Kings School Gloucester before serving in Gallipoli in WWI also in home defence partly in Home Guard partly in Guards during WW2. Summary refers to Royal and Prime Minister security. There is also a second interview
Interview with William Ashley Howard jewish refugee ordered to leave U K Aspects of period as private with 220th Coy, Pioneer Corps in Gloucester, GB, 1943
Interview with Albert David Rowlands pacifist served as medic during WW2 worked at Gloucester Hospital
Interview with Norman Dunn served on Anti-Aircraft including in Gloucester, where he was a tractor driver with 3 Group Tractor Battery, describes being trained to drive at Gloucester includes mention of Painswick Beacon and also winching a vehicle into a Quarry as part of training, part on end reel 3, beginning reel 4 and reel 5. He also describes work on a HAA battery earlier.
Interview with James Maddison served in Gloucestershire at Kitebrook House and also mention of Chipping Campden.
Interview with Michael Nicholson (1937- 2016) ITN correspondent (1964-2002) (off topic)
Interview with Richard Stephen Edward Harris was part of Home Guard in Bristol and later recruited by Gloster Aircraft Company.
Papers
Private Papers of Flying Officer F C Harrold – served for a time at Aston Down
Photographs
Photograph of 2n Lt Francis Allan Ballinger of “Melrose”. Alexander Rd., Gloucester.Death: 21 to 22 May 1915 Bois de Biez Western Front
Interview with Michael Francis Aston Maltin lived in Gloucester before joining RAF (note think this is Michael Maltin, retired airline pilot and who lived at Woodchester and repaired clocks).
Photograph includes Stoker R J Mustoe (Gloucester). Taken in 1944
Photo of Second Lieutenant Noel Carelton Blakeway 1st Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment. Death: 26 March 1916 to 27 March 1916 La Boiselle Western Front Staniforth, Tuffley, Gloucester
Photo of Captain Edward Vivian Dearman Birchall DSO. Unit: Bucks Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Death: 10 August 1916, near Pozieres, Somme, Western Front.
Photo of Private William George Yandell 20183. Unit: A Company, 2nd/4th Battalion, Gloucester Regt.. Death: 03 December 1917 Missing Aged 31 Western Front
Photo of Lieutenant Frank Percy Luker CWGC family information: son of Joseph John and Amelia Luker, of 3, Arthur St., Gloucester
Photo of Private James Didcote 23854. Unit: 8th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Death: 30 July to 31 July 1916, missing in action in Delville Wood, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
3 members of Royal Gloucestershire Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment in Bosnia on UN exercise reading the “pink un” Citizen
Queen Elizabeth (former Queen Mother) chatting with a WAAF sergeant during a visit to an early training establishment at Innsworth, Gloucester. The WAAFs, with the exception of Assistant Section Officer G H Caffin standing behind the Queen, are wearing ’emergency’ uniforms consisting of overalls and berets, which were issued pending the arrival of the WAAF service dress.
Lance Corporal Cynthia Matthews of 15 Tythings Estage, Newent, Gloucester, at work in the plotting room. – information on this series of photos suggests a London location the regimental details are stated to be 487 battery of 137 of HAA Regiment
Photo Original wartime caption: General Montgomery speaking to CSM A.Brown, MM., of Lydney, Gloucester, when he inspected a number of men who were in the 1st Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment when he was colonel. With the C-in- C at Fort George, is Captain S.J. Williams of Londonderry who was his RSM in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
Original wartime caption: Sergeant Major E.J. Holmes, attached to a Mixed Heavy A.A. Battery, was recently presented with a Certificate for Meritorious Service in wartime. Major General D. Paige presenting the certificate to Sgt. Major Holmes. 494/143 MIXED A.A. BATTERY, 9TH AA DIVISION, BELMONT GUNSITE, UPTON ST. LEONARDS, GLOUCESTER.