NAM.1993-03-63-1

First of three sound cassettes: oral history interview with Lt Col R J Griffith, North Irish Horse, 1940-1946. Griffith was born in County Dublin. He joined the Army on the outbreak of war in 1939 and attended 102 OCTU at Blackdown November 1939 to May 1940, when he joined the North Irish Horse at Enniskillen. After training in Northern Ireland 1940-1941, the regiment served in England until January 1943 when they sailed from Glasgow on the 'Duchess of York' for Algiers. They saw action at Hunt's Gap and Chaouch, and the final attack to reach Tunis in May 1943. In April 1944 they were transferred to Italy, and fought with the Canadians on the Hitler Line, advancing to Florence in July 1944, reaching Coriano in September. After the end of hostilities they guarded German prisoners in Rimini, and after serving in the Army of Occupation in Austria, Griffith returned to Oxford in 1946. Col Griffith died in 1994. (Transcript Available) Interviewed by Peter Boyden, 24 November 1992.

World War Two, Outbreak of War (1939-1945), World War Two, Home Front (1939-1945), World War Two, Middle East (1940-1945), World War Two, Eastern Front (1941-1945), World War Two, Italy (1943-1945)