| Title: |
Derek Bales
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Somerset Record Office. Somerset Archive and Record Service.
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| Collection: |
Exmoor Oral History Archive Collection
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| Description: |
In 1952, aged 18, he joined the army for his national service, finding the first weeks an ordeal. Then, in August, the Lynmouth flood disaster happened and they were posted to Brushford, near Dulverton, to help with the emergency. Camping by the Carnarvon Arms Hotel they undertook an assortment of tasks, clearing rivers, shifting stones and helping with the harvest. With his rural background he was better equipped to be useful than many of his colleagues and in those two weeks he went from being a raw recruit to someone with confidence in what he was doing.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Speaker: |
Bales, Derek, 1933-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1933
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Norwich, England; England; United Kingdom; Europe
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Military personnel
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Locations discussed: |
England; Europe; Somerset, England; United Kingdom
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
England; Europe; Exmoor (England)--Biography; Exmoor (England)--History; Moors (Wetlands)--England; Oral history; Somerset, England; United Kingdom
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| ASP release: |
2006-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0033861-37153
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