Unidad documental simple HBE/1/5/2 - HB Interview Ken Cooke 2.m4a

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HBE/1/5/2

Título

HB Interview Ken Cooke 2.m4a

Fecha(s)

  • 2017-2020 (Creación)

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Unidad documental simple

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1 file, 2.3MB

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Nombre del productor

(?-present)

Historia biográfica

Harriett was a PhD candidate at University of York between 2017 and 2020. As part of her PhD research, she carried out face to face interviews with a number of Second World War veterans.

Nombre del productor

(1926-Present)

Historia biográfica

Ken Cooke was an Infantryman in the Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) for eighteen months between 1943 and 1945. He received his letter of conscription at the age of 18 just before Christmas 1943. Before joining the army he worked in a Royal Ordnance Factory as an office boy with his father. Ken was a member of the allied forces who landed on Gold beach on D-Day 1944. Ken was injured by shrapnel from an exploding shell after which he was sent from a field hospital in France, back to a hospital in England. After his recovery he was sent back to France to join up with Canadian troops. They fought their way to Bremmen where Ken suffered from shellshock and was returned again to England where he was demobbed. Ken is now a member of the York Normandy Veterans Association.
York Normandy Veterans Association
See Also - Normandy Veterans Association

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One of two files recording interview with Ken Cooke. The interview "took place on August 7th 2017 in the presence of Nick Beilby (NB) at the interviewee's home" (transcript).

The interview transcript (HBE/1/11) provides the following background information about Ken Cook: 'Ken Cooke was born in 1925. He served as an Infantryman in the Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment). He landed on Gold Beach on June 6th 1944. After the war, Ken returned to York and worked for Rowntree’s for nearly fifty years..'

The interview includes discussion about whether Ken considers himself a veteran, coming home from war, how long it took for soldiers to open up about their experiences, the British Legion, the NVA, being on television, medals, D-Day.

Parent folder: 2020/008
MD5 Checksum: 9a6ee666c0e43d0dd43e07f9d9bd4166
Original Creation date: 07/08/2017
Last-modified date: 09/04/2020. Altered during digital preservation activities by Frances Bell.
Original last-modified date: 07/08/2017
File size: 2.358MB
File format: Not determined by DROID. Thought to be MPEG-4 Audio File
File extension: m4a
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The parent folder (2020-008) contains eighteen audio files (constituting ten interviews) and one Microsoft Word document.

Arrangement intervention is level 1 (no intervention by the archivist). The original material has been retained without any intervention by the archives staff. This does mean that the collection may include filenames containing spelling mistakes and duplicate files that were placed in the wrong folder(s) by the creator.

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  • inglés

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    See also York Normandy Veterans archive (NVA).

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