[…] in Taranto and then desperately tried tofind the Argyll Regiment I was aiming for, the Eighth Argylls but alas was posted as Second inCommand to the Royal West Kent Regiment which was next door to them because they had got noMajors and the Argylls had too many Majors.Taylor/Peet: What rank were you[…]
[…] but alas was posted as Second in Command to the Royal West Kent Regiment which was next door to them […]
[…] years. We had an RSM called Derek Craig who theoretically ran the unit well I mean clearly we had a captain, what was his name? Captain Boyle in the Royal Scots but everyone just buggered off and did their own thing. We had German POWs as servants as body servants looking after our billets. &n[…]
[…]d at 17, at 18 and a half you were called up whether you are willing not. I would have loved to have gone into aircrew because my dad had been in the Royal Flying Corps in the first war and I've been brought up on aeroplanes as a kid. But my eyesight is very bad. So that was that. You know, if you b[…]
[…]recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Today's subject Gerald chambers are senior floor manager with experience at AR TV Rediffusion television and London Weekend Television. Gerald is now retired. The interviewer is john P. Hamilton, a member of the committee. The date Tuesday the […]
[…] Then I did Gala which had Iturbi, Markova, Gobbi, the Royal Philharmonic, Fistoulari, Malcolm Sargent, and Maria Callas on. John […]
[…]llet dancing, acrobatic, Greek, tap. Mainly ballet. I was quite good at ballet actually, I passed several exams. And they were considering me for the Royal Ballet School, only it was called Sadler’s Wells Ballet School then or
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[…]ril 17th, 1923 in Bangalore, South India in the military hospital, I think. My father was in the British army in India, the Queen Victoria's Own, the Royal Engineers. My mother was half Scottish, her mother was Scottish and her father was English. She was born in South Africa and had met my father i[…]
[…] the British army in India, the Queen Victoria's Own, the Royal Engineers. My mother was half Scottish, her mother was […]
[…]; Starting off at the Bombay High School, where I think I was probably the only European which was kind of interesting because it was the time of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny and the time of all the riots before partition and it was quite dangerous, we were in buses which were turned over and burnt […]
