Robert Love [Start of Recording] [00:00] I: So we're interviewing Robert Love. I'm the interviewer, Tim Amyes. Robert was here from '76 to '93? R: Till 2001, I think! I: 2001! 1976 till 2001. And today is the 28th [May, 2017]. So there we go. We've identified the tape. So wh[…]
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[…]ot the sack instead. That was the end of 1936. I got a job with with ETS, what was ETS educational in general services, which was run by a man called commander JLF. Hunt  who was the man who provided all the programmes for the Navy ships, which he did in association with a firm called Cecil Cat[…]
[…]een a lot of bombing on the Cardiff and Barry docks where a lot of food was coming in. And so I was servicing these Hurricanes and suddenly my Flight Commander called me in said, "I've just noticed you've had considerable administrative experience." I said, "Well yes, I was a Production Manager." "O[…]
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[…] been in the MacRobertson race to Australia. He was in everything. He was the first man ever to land a plane on a ship at sea. He was in the navy - a commander in the navy - and he... he'd done a much worse thing than that, though. The British navy were somewhere in the Mediterranean and he flew ove[…]
[…]an Kemp-WelchTape 1, Side 1Roy Fowler: '91 and we're at John P. Hamilton's in Paddington and we have a very distinguished lady, Joan Kemp-Welch, of, I think, absolutely formidable achievement. So we'll start at the very beginning, Joan, and the origins. When and where you were born, family back[…]
[…]ory to when he was in Bomber Command. He was a pilot. And the attrition, the loss of Bomber Command pilots was so appalling that they made him a Wing Commander, I think it was I'm not sure if a grade but I think they made him a Wing Commander in charge of training to our Bomber Command. At the age o[…]
[…]adio, giving its position and a U-boat, peering at it through its periscope, picked the message up through the aerial in the periscope and the U-boat commander decided to keep station on that lifeboat, use it as a decoy, knowing that sooner or later a Merchantman would pick up that message and proba[…]
[…]o go into welfare work really, my mother had done an awful lot of school care committees and so on and so I answered an advertisement in the Times, a Commander Menges, who wanted a secretary to help with two charity organisations, two Irish organisations, one was the Benevolent Society of St Patrick[…]
