| Title: |
Bill Partridge
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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: |
Bill Partridge didn't have the happiest of childhoods. He was nine when his mother died and of his four brothers, three died young. He had ambitions, but missed a lot of school through TB. At 14 he started looking after his father, doing the cooking and cleaning and shooting rabbits to pay the man's wages. When war came along he went into the army. In 1944 he was commissioned in the field, wounded the same day, and awarded the Military Medal.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 2001 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Partridge, Bill, 1916-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1916
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Somerset, England; England; United Kingdom; Europe
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Military personnel
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| Age at speaking: |
85
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| Document date: |
2001
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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: |
OHI0033909-37201
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