Out in the Midday Sun

by Margaret Shennan

  British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol, recorded interviews with the following (all numbers refer ro tapes in the Oral History archive): Christopher Blake (tape 192), J. Coates (tape 225), Jeremy Darby (tape 050), M. E. Dickson (tape 095) , C. W S. Hardey (tape 449), Kenneth Hellrich (tape 263), Hugh Humphrey (tape 442), Geraldine Kaye (tape 084), Mrs Kerr-Peterson (tape 156), Mrs Anne Langlands (tape 420), John Loch and Mrs Daphne Loch (tape 366), Major M. Lockhead (tape 033) , Robert Oliver (tape 174), Lieutenant-Colonel G. Pawle (tape 319), Sir John Peel (tape 349), Mrs M. Wheatley (tape 460); also tapes 036/7, 047, 056 and 097

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