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Interview with Charles Hartley
Date: 22 Sep 1988
From: World War I Oral History Archive
By: Hartley, Charles, 1892-1990
Reference: OHInt-0006/35
Description: Describes family background, poverty, work on a small farm in Wales, education, immigration to New Zealand, his work on the East Cape in a variety of farm labouring, bush, and road construction jobs around Tolaga Bay (detailed) and the social life on the Cape. Recalls his enlistment in 1914, and transport to Egypt as one of the 4th Reinforcements, attitude of the New Zealand soldiers to Welsh, the Gallipoli landings, Quinn's Post, Cape Hellas, being wounded, relations with Australian and British troops, morale after Gallipoli, Battle of the Somme, Armentieres, Passchendaele, return to New Zealand with bride, attitude to RSA, 1930s depression. Venue - Auckland Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Venue - Mr Hartley's home at 10 Willcott Street, Mt Albert, Auckland Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Textual file Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0477, OHDL-000325.
Interview with Philip Skilton
Date: Mar 1986 - Apr 1987
From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project
By: Skilton, Philip Robert, 1893-1989
Reference: OHInt-0053/32
Description: Phil Skilton was born at Onekaka in 1893. His father, Thomas Skilton, emigrated from England in 1870 with his parents to join his older brothers in the Collingwood gold-fields. Recalls his father married the first teacher at Rockville School. Early memories include the launching of the Parapara gold dredge about 1900, his father's employment for the Parapara Iron Ore Company, the 1905 Collingwood fire, the construction of Druggans Dam, Rockville in 1900, the Parapara paint works about 1905 and details about his father working in the Parapara Silver mine pre 1900. Recalls celebrations in Takaka at the end of the Boer War. Talks in detail about World War I and fighting at Gallipoli, the Somme and Passchendaele. Describes timber milling with brother Rupert Skilton at Tukurua in the years between the wars. Talks about a gold claim in the Parapara in the Depression and working on Westhaven Dry Road and Bainham Fifteen Mile Bridge. During World War II Phil Skilton joined the Air Force and supervised forestry gangs in the Solomon Islands. His wife Mary and family settled in Nelson. Describes building a home with timber felled by himself. Venue - Nelson : 1987 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - Parapara Beach and at Interviewer's home in Collingwood Quantity: 20 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 20 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 590.