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Scott, G. and Oscar Orr - 29th Battalion - Interview

Item number (ISN):

117016

Series title:

Flanders Fields : [background interview]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1963-02-14/1963-02-20

Item number (ISN):

117016

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: FLANDERS FIELDS

Accession:

1980-0123

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1963-02-14/1963-02-20

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

interviewer, Frank Lalor

Description:

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World War I veterans, G. Scott and Lieutenant Oscar Orr, are interviewed about their experiences with the 29th Battalion. Scott, who enlisted in 1914 "from a sense of adventure," remembers being "supplied with grindstones to sharpen [their] bayonets" in preparation for battle. As a scout at the battle of St. Eloi, Scott portrays a dismal scene of men "crouched" in ditches full of water. Most "didn't know which crater was which and who was occupying them." At the Somme front, Scott describes his role to clean out the enemy snipers dug in at Moquet Farm. He recalls the first tanks used in this battle. "It was an absolute surprise and shock to the Germans, and it was a surprise and shock to us because there was never a secret so well guarded."~Remembering the attack on Easter Monday at Vimy, Scott talks about advancing to Farbus Wood and discovering the Germans had already fled. He recalls lowering himself into a deep enemy dugout and helping himself to souvenirs including "a beautiful Luger revolver...and even tucked away a suit of unused German underwear." Later, hit by shrapnel in the lungs, he was invalided home and celebrated Armistice in Canada.~Lieutenant Orr, a member of the Signalers, recounts his experiences at the battle of St. Eloi as relief for the embattled 27th Battalion. "We were up to our ears in mud...and were unmercifully shelled." At the battle for Hill 60, he says he was "hit right between the eyes." They "took it [the shell] out and gave it to me as a souvenir." "That was the end of my war."

Language:

English

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

104325

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1980-0123/143

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

426495

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2006-07-0004

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

79:28

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

426496

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2006-07-0005

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

62:05

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

703647

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

117016-1980-0123-143.WAV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

BWF

Made from:

1980-0123/143

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

703648

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

117016-1980-0123-143.MP3

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MP3

Made from:

1980-0123/143

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

156394

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

C07479

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

1980-0123/143
1980-0123/144

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1003332

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 2006-07-0004

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

1980-0123/116
1980-0123/143

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1003333

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 2006-07-0005

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

1980-0123/143

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 2006-07-0004
A1 2006-07-0005

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

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