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Interviews with John Actie / Walter Sinclair

2 interviews: John Actie 'BHAC' / Walter Sinclair

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1 Compact Audio Tape

BHAC

English

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105-0012-022, 105-0012-024

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

John Actie, Walter Sinclair

Monique Ennis

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Glamorgan Archives and National Library of Wales

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UNLW023/131