Interview with L.J. Ounsworth, Royal Artillery (part 6)
Media
Title
Interview with L.J. Ounsworth, Royal Artillery (part 6)
Identifier
6732.mp3
GWA_5785_Chapman_-_3B.mp3
Creator
Ounsworth, L. J.
Abstract
Last part of six sections of a recording of a long interview with L.J. Ounsworth, Royal Artillery (interviewer unknown), continues directly from the fifth part. Length 30 mins approx, includes: introduction of wireless to the battery so they can communicate with the observer planes. Later, after the Armistice, he describes the ill-feeling towards strikers on the home front, in particular some Welsh miners who were drafted into his battery weeks after the Armistice. He also describes disturbances and riots with police [military police?] on stations in England as former troops (already discharged) try to board trains which soldiers are not allowed to travel on.
Date
1917 - 1919
Date Created
1914-08-01
Temporal Coverage
1918-12-31
Spatial Coverage
France
4 Humberdale Close, Swanland, East Yorkshire HU14 3NS
Source
Tape
Medium
Tape
Type
Interview
pages
6
number of pages
6
Contributor
Alun Edwards
Alun Edwards (Ferrens Art Gallery, Hull submissions day 31st May 2008)
Mrs S. Chapman
Rights
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
Publisher
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford
account
suechapman@quista.net