| Title: |
Bob Reed
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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: |
Bob Reed was 18 and in the Home Guard when he was recruited for Churchill's Secret Army. Over the next couple of years he spent evenings and weekends training at Treborough Quarry. There were six of them. While they practised blowing up tanks and railway lines and carried revolvers at all times, their families knew nothing about it. It was exciting but dangerous, he says. In 1942 he was drafted into the army.
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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: |
Reed, Bob, 1922-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1922
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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: |
Furniture designer; Military personnel
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| Age at speaking: |
79
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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: |
OHI0033914-37206
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