About This Item
Identifier
101-0006-077
Title
Interviews with John Actie / Walter Sinclair
Description
2 interviews: John Actie 'BHAC' / Walter Sinclair
Type
Item
Format
1 Compact Audio Tape
Contributor
BHAC
Language
English
Rights
Copyright situation unknown/other, contact HCE
Publisher
Contact HCE if you would like to use or reproduce this item
Relation
105-0012-022, 105-0012-024
Subject
Walter Sinclair: Born in 1920; bit on Sinclair family name; apart from bombings at night and black out life in the war went on as normal; air raid shelter in back yard; remembers seeing bombs being dropped; job in factory in Grangetown to produce tarmac armoured plates for guns; got fired and joined forces; got into RAF; training in Weston Super Mare, then Kiddlington near Oxford, then Egypt, Suez Canal, Tripoli, Italy and Corsica; cinema and dances in Butetown in war; VE Day in Corsica, then came home. John Actie: Born in 1923 lived in Cardiff all live except for war years; born in the Docks and start with story of trained dog doing groceries; day the war started plane bombed dockers; first raid that hit Norwegian home and residential area was bad; father went to sea and worked as docker, mother at home with small children; everyone was engaged in the war, women had to work; people slept in shelters; going dancing and seeing bombings; Italians became aliens and interred; rationing, but was sufficient; radio programmes; work after the war, jobs refused because of colour; time in RAF, others from Docks got killed
Interviewee
John Actie, Walter Sinclair
Interviewer
Monique Ennis
Digital File
No
Storage Location
Glamorgan Archives and National Library of Wales
Conditions of Access
Open
British Library Ref
UNLW023/131
Citation
“Interviews with John Actie / Walter Sinclair,” The Heritage & Cultural Exchange Archive, accessed May 7, 2024, https://hcearchive.org.uk/items/show/6803.