Community Capsule: No Tears For Me My Mother

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have a number of transcripts relating to World War II.

2010
Oswald George Powe
1931-2013
Joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) at the age of 17 as a Radar Operator.

Burnett George Anderson
B. 1937
National service 1957 -1959, medical orderly in the Royal Army Medical Corp.

 

Winston Dennis Murphy
B. 1920
Served in the Merchant Navy 1940 -1945. This is an extract from an interview conducted by NBA as part of the Community Capsule project, No Tears For Me My Mother

Tony Daley
B. 1927
Joined the Royal Air Force (RAF). These are extracts from an interview conducted by NBA as part of the Community Capsule project, No Tears For Me My Mother

Stanley Arbouin
B. 1936
Joined the Air Force in February 1958 as a Wireless Maintenance Operator. He shares his memories of being a child during WW11 in Jamaica. These are extracts from an interview conducted by NBA as part of the Community Capsule project, No Tears For Me My Mother

Angela Blackburn Pearce shares her memories of military life. This is an extract from an interview conducted by NBA as part of the Community Capsule project, No Tears For Me My Mother

Hilton James shares his memories of being a child during WW11 in Jamaica. This is an extract from an interview conducted by NBA as part of the Community Capsule project, No Tears For Me My Mother

Jill Westby shares her memories of being a child during WW11 in England. This is an extract from an interview conducted by NBA as part of the Community Capsule project, No Tears For Me My Mother

Peter Devitt curator from RAF Museum Colindale, London, discusses how and why the RAF began to encourage Caribbean recruits  during WWII. These are extracts from an interview conducted by NBA as part of the Community Capsule project, No Tears For Me My Mother

Tryphena Anderson, these are extracts from an interview conducted by NBA as part of the Community Capsule project, No Tears For Me My Mother

S.I. Martin from Black Cultural Archive shares his opinion on why people from the Caribbean and Africa enlisted to join Britain’s WWII war effort. These are extracts from an interview conducted by NBA as part of the Community Capsule project, No Tears For Me My Mother.

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