NAM.1990-08-5-2

Second of five sound cassettes. Oral history interview with Lt Col Charles Robert Douglas Gray, Skinner's Horse, 1932-1947. His service with Skinner's Horse included three years on the North West Frontier and service against the Italians in Eritrea and in Italy 1943-1945. At the end of the war he was in Burma collecting up Japanese animals. Returning to India he was based for 18 months in the Army Remount Breeding Area at Montgomery, at the time of Partition the only British Officer there. He took care of members of Skinner's Horse passing to and fro through Montgomery at the time of the Partition and also witnessed Muslim gangs killing Hindus on principle. He left in December 1947 and returned to England where he found employment at Newmarket. He comments on the division of Skinner's Horse at Partition and how the former British officers provided L1000 for regimental pensioners on hard times. Interview conducted August 1990 to 1991 by Mark Nicholls and Peter Boyden.

World War Two, Middle East (1940-1945), World War Two, Italy (1943-1945), India (1945-1948)

Keren, Battle of, 1941 (World War Two, East Africa 1940-1941), Amba Alagi, Battle of, 1941 (World War Two, East Africa 1940-1941)