Item HBE/1/7/1 - HB James Mason 1 .m4a

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HBE/1/7/1

Title

HB James Mason 1 .m4a

Date(s)

  • 2017-2020 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

1 file, 11.2MB

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Name of creator

(?-present)

Biographical history

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.

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Scope and content

One of two interview recordings. The interview 'took place in Mr Mason’s own home on November 6th 2017' (transcript).

The interview transcript (HBE/1/11) provides the following background information about James Mason: 'James Mason was born in March 1926 in South Yorkshire. He was called up in 1944 and joined the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He then made his way through Holland and Belgium to Germany (Dusseldorf in particular) and took part in the victory parade in Paris. Prior to being called up, he worked as a coal miner and was a member of the Home Guard' (transcript).

The interview includes discussion about the British Legion, being demobilised, not talking about the war at home, medals, meeting a girl who lived on a barge on the river Rhine, and his box of memorabilia.

Parent folder: 2020/008
MD5 Checksum: 3b033e9b348d261ec62eab6eda414484
Original Creation date: 06/11/2017
Last-modified date: 09/04/2020. Altered during digital preservation activities by Frances Bell.
Original last-modified date: 06/11/2017
File size: 11.264
File format: Not determined by DROID. Thought to be MPEG-4 Audio File
File extension: m4a
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System of arrangement

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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Open

Material is available subject to the usual terms and conditions of access to Archives and Local History collections.

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Images are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

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  • English

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    See also York Normandy Veterans archive (NVA).

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