AUDIO
Interview with Robert Vincent Closey
- Date
- 13 June 1989 - 13 Jun 1989
- By
- Closey, Robert Vincent, 1897-1998
- Reference
- OHInt-0006/17
- Description
Describes family background, immigration to New Zealand, education, early jobs, breaking in horses, senior cadets, enlistment, Trentham Camp and 7th Reinforcements, false ages, details of voyage, meeting Gallipoli veterans in Egypt, George Tuck, attitude to Egypt, the Wazir riots, impressions of Ettie Rout, voyage to France, Hazebrouck in 1916, first Anzac Day service.
Recalls desertion of Nimot, wounded at L'Epinette, vivid descrption of the Somme - 1916, being first bayonet man, LOB (Left Out of Battle), food, trench raids, Messines, being wounded, Passchendaele, conscientious objectors, commissioning as an officer in 1918, armistice, Army of Occupation in Germany, Etaples training camp, Australian deserters, French civilians, prostitution, looting, British soldiers and officers, flares communication.
Discusses return to New Zealand, rehabilitation farms and their problems, walked off in 1923, marriage, disability pensions, war marriages, RSA in 1920s, John A Lee, shell shock pensions, Ranfurly War Veterans' Home, future of RSA, Anzac Day, territorials, The Four Colonels controversy (1935), Brigadier Hargest, Closey's World War II career in the Western Desert, prisoner of war repatriation in Europe, Colonel Macky, opinion of General Freyberg.
Venue - Auckland
Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton
Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack
Venue - RSA Clubrooms, Papatoetoe
Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002587 - OHC-002594
Quantity: 8 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 1 interview(s). 8 Hours Duration.
Physical Description: Textual file
Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0459, OHDL-000311.
Black and white photograph of Bob Closey, June 1989
- Additional description
Original recordings not available for playback. Surrogate copies will be provided.
Alternative form available: Both printed and digital versions of the abstract are available
Listening copies OHLC-001607 - OHLC-001614; OHLCD-0688 - OHLCD-0695
- Use/Reproduction
- Restricted - public use (publication and broadcasting) requires the written permission of the Chief Librarian Copyright: Copyright in the sound recording and abstract is held by Jane Tolerton and Nicholas Boyack
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material
- Part of
- World War I Oral History Archive
- Format
- 8 C60 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), 1 Electronic document(s), 1 interview(s), 8 Hours Duration, Oral histories, Electronic records (Digital records), Electronic documents, Textual file, Illustration: Black and white photograph of Bob Closey, June 1989, Equipment used: Sony WM-D6C
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Interview with Robert Vincent Closey, printed abstract
Date: 13 June 1989
From: World War I Oral History Archive
Reference: OHA-0459
Description: Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s).
Interview with Robert Vincent Closey, tape six
Date: 13 June 1989 - 13 Jun 1989
From: World War I Oral History Archive
Reference: OHC-002592
Description: Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Arrangement: Tape sequence - 6 of 8 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Robert Vincent Closey, tape four
Date: 13 June 1989 - 13 Jun 1989
From: World War I Oral History Archive
Reference: OHC-002590
Description: Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Arrangement: Tape sequence - 4 of 8 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Robert Vincent Closey, tape eight
Date: 13 June 1989 - 13 Jun 1989
From: World War I Oral History Archive
Reference: OHC-002594
Description: Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Arrangement: Tape sequence - 8 of 8 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Robert Vincent Closey, tape one
Date: 13 June 1989 - 13 Jun 1989
From: World War I Oral History Archive
Reference: OHC-002587
Description: Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Arrangement: Tape sequence - 1 of 8 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Robert Vincent Closey, tape five
Date: 13 June 1989 - 13 Jun 1989
From: World War I Oral History Archive
Reference: OHC-002591
Description: Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Arrangement: Tape sequence - 5 of 8 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Robert Vincent Closey, digital abstract
Date: 13 Jun 1989
From: World War I Oral History Archive
Reference: OHDL-000311
Description: Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). Processing information: This file has been migrated to a different format for purposes of preservation and access
Interview with Robert Vincent Closey, tape two
Date: 13 June 1989 - 13 Jun 1989
From: World War I Oral History Archive
Reference: OHC-002588
Description: Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Arrangement: Tape sequence - 2 of 8 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Robert Vincent Closey, tape seven
Date: 13 June 1989 - 13 Jun 1989
From: World War I Oral History Archive
Reference: OHC-002593
Description: Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Arrangement: Tape sequence - 7 of 8 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).
Interview with Robert Vincent Closey, tape three
Date: 13 June 1989 - 13 Jun 1989
From: World War I Oral History Archive
Reference: OHC-002589
Description: Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Arrangement: Tape sequence - 3 of 8 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).