[…]which was to revise and reform Infantry tactics, it was set up at Barnard Castle.That was the sort of Mecca of the revivalist movement to try and get British Infantry tactics intosome shape and there were about eight of us and I was appointed Commandant of the Battle Schoolin Orkney in Shetland defe[…]
[…] Cole: Because Sevastopol was the siege wasn't it, by the British and French armies? Charles Cooper: The siege of Sevastopol, […]
[…] of Mecca of the revivalist movement to try and get British Infantry tactics into some shape and there were about […]
[…] a regional stock-taker and occasional mobile manager for the Gaumont- British circuit. He had become an ‘internal auditor’ around the […]
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[…]I didn't. I wanted to go into the film industry from the age of twelve, and I went to see Jimmy Ritchie [James Ritchie], who later became the head of British Transport [Films]. But he was a young man, himself starting in the film industry at that time. And he was very discouraging and said that it w[…]
[…] got the sack and I stayed on! And after another - whatever it was - a year or nine months, I finally got a break into the cutting rooms with Gaumont-British Instructional, on the top floor of Lime Grove. And I made all the mistakes that you do when you're training to be an editor. Dropping the cent[…]
