[…]eter.Speaker 1 14:19 It was, all right. It was, it was, it was adequate, rather more than adequate, because one got on very well with the officers, and you were invited in the mess.Roy Fowler 14:28 Now I'm trying to establish the cost of things and the way one lived in those […]
[…]rong with that, for Christ's sake. Anyway, that was that and then, war on, and in 1940 there’s this dreadful disaster. The Dutch, Belgians and French officers more or less laid down their arms, stories of Belgian officers had their private cars parked just behind the front lines so they could nip ho[…]
[…] the earth when you got to know them. You've often heard itin jingoistic plays and films and whatever but the fact of the matter was when I became an officer I would have gone anywhere with that lot. I mean they were tough and they were basic, but they had a decent, and they had that wonderful north[…]
[…]don't know how true that is. The other story that goes around of course is that depending on what port of entry an immigrant came in, the immigration officer wrote down the name of the person as he thought it was spelt phonetically. This is as maybe but to side track for a moment in 1944, when I was[…]
[…]Alf Cooper, Charlie Wheeler, Max Anderson, Ivor Montague, Ralph Bond. A phalanx of the Left. But right in the middle of it was the Conservative Films Officer, a redoubtable lady called Winifred Crum-Ewing. She looked every inch a Tory matron, and sounded it. She always turned up at General Council m[…]
[…] right in the middle of it was the Conservative Films Officer, a redoubtable lady called Winifred Crum-Ewing. She looked every […]
[…]to an OCTU at Dunbar.Taylor/Peet: This was the winter of '39.Denis Forman: Winter of '39-'40 and passed out of that and got to the Argylls, became an Officerin the Argylls, that was when I started to work, I was determined to be a top class Infantry Soldierand every single manual I learnt by heart, […]
[…] out of that and got to the Argylls, became an Officer in the Argylls, that was when I started to […]
[…]t it was a... I can remember my first passport, and it said, 'profession' and I used the expression 'film traveller'. And on one occasion the customs officer said, "Well what is a film traveller?" So I had to explain briefly. I think it was just curiosity, I mean he wasn't worried that I was trying […]
[…]very first person, and set in my office. And this is long before Edgar appeared. It watched various candidates being interviewed for the job of films officer for British Transport Commission.Speaker 1 1:36 There were many who applied, and thankfully, most of them failed, looking back on […]
