Coad, Ernest

Production date
29 Apr 1982
Description
Oral history recording. Former Power Board worker Ernest (Shorty) Coad (1897-1982) recalls life as a soldier in the trenches of France during the First World War 1916-1917. He was underage when he enlisted and experienced gas attacks and shrapnel wounds whilst in France. Abstract folder also contains a letter from Ernest's daughter Jean Prideaux.

Date recorded: 29 April 1982
Interviewer: Janet Old
Abstraction: Carol Sampson
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Object detail

Production date

29 Apr 1982

Production period

World War I (1914-18)
1910s
1920s

Subject person

Ernest Coad

Classification

oral history/(for Archives)

Collection

Janet Haldane Old Oral Histories

Item list

Part 1

Research tape.

Part 2

Folder. Inventory

Part 3

Master tape

WAV

Accession number

ARC2004-1697

Collection type

My shortlist

Subject place

Eltham Taranaki New Zealand Polynesia Oceania North Island France Western Europe Europe

Subject

World War One (1914-1918) International conflicts War

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