Naylor, Mrs.

Production date
1940
 Description
The Bomb Disposal Unit in New Plymouth in World War II.
Mrs. Naylor describes the involvement of her husband, Dick, in the New Zealand Engineering Corp's Bomb Disposal Unit. He was declared unfit for service overseas and trained as an engineer in Wellington, returning to New Plymouth as a Lieutenant. The narrative describes setting up a Bomb Disposal Unit in New Plymouth and a mine washed up on rocks near the New Plymouth Railway Station. Mrs. Naylor acted as the Unit's secretary.

Object detail

Production date
1940
Classification
reminiscences/(for Archives)
Item list

  Part 1

Narrative

Accession number
ARC2003-602
Collection type
Archives

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