NAM.1991-07-158-2

Second of eight sound cassettes: oral history interview with Mr Benjamin Katz recalling his service with the Royal Army Medical Corps in England and Wales 1939-1941, Norway 1940 and in India and Burma 1941-1942. Interview conducted by Alastair Massie on 1 July 1991. Interview covers serving with the RAMC at hospitals in England; contracting pneumonia & sent to convalesce; seeing his girlfriend before posting abroad; journey to the Far East; time spent in Cape Town; arriving in India; comparing British soldiers & Gurkha soldiers; low morale of British troops in India; impressions of Indian cities. Associated with World War Two, Home Front (1939-1945), Norway (1940-1941) and the Far East (1941-1945). (Transcript Available)

World War Two (1939-1945)