Remeberance '86

Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: Langille, Clyde
Interviewee: Mellish, Ken
Researcher: Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
Date Recorded
1986
Date Digitized
2010-06-30
Abstract
This is a tape titled Remembrance '86. It is a recording of interviews with Ken Mellish and Clyde Langille. Some topics covered include WWI, WWII, training in England, medals, kilts, and getting wounded.
Genre
Interview
Subject (Geographic)
England
Subject (Temporal)
1944
WWI
1917
Rights
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
00:31:30
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
***This tape is SIDE A only.
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:12:58
Ken Mellish talks about being in the New Brunswick Rangers, getting shot, coming home for Christmas in 1944, an English nurse, his brother contracting diphtheria, and a story about a stolen pig; Ken Mellish, WWII, New Brunswick Rangers, 1944, diphtheria, veterans, soldiers.

SIDE A 00:12:58 -- 00:19:30
Clyde Langille talks about being in the 85th Infantry Battalion, losing a lung, going over in 1917 for Passchendaele, being called the "Ladies from Hell" because of their kilts, training in England, and the last WWI veteran; Clyde Langille, 85th Infantry Battallion, 1917, Passchendaele, WWI, kilts, Ladies From Hell, veterans, soldiers.

SIDE A 00:19:30 -- 00:31:30
His medals, sleeping in his kilt, his rifle with bayonet, losing friends, his regimental number, coming home after the war, farming, fishing lobsters, walking in the remembrance day ceremonies, getting shot in the lung, and hospitals; hospitals, WWI, kilts, war medals, soldiers, veterans, fishing, war casualties.

Tape ends at 00:31:30.