AUDIO
Interview with Bert Lee
- Date
- 12 Sep 1988
- By
- Lee, Albert Vivian, 1898-1991
- Reference
- OHInt-0006/49
- Description
Describes family background (father a sawmiller), Senior Cadets, enlistment under age, training at Trentham and Featherston, transport to United Kingdom, Sling Camp, Etaples, New Zealand soldiers compared to British soldiers, missed Passchendaele and Messines, Hill 63, Le Quesnoy, describes climbing ladder into village, was a runner attached to Battalion HQ, songs, estaminets, drunkeness, leave in London, desertions, venereal disease, gas masks, lack of celebration on Armistice, Hornchurch Hospital.
Recalls returning to New Zealand ca 1919, reception in New Zealand, difficulty in settling down, effect of war, career subsequently in Putaruru and in Rotorua, life at Ranfurly Home, marriage.
Venue - Auckland
Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton
Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack
Venue - Ranfurly War Veterans Home, Mount Roskill, Auckland
Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002689
Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration.
Physical Description: Textual file
Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 491, OHDL-000336.
Black and white photograph of Bert Lee, 1988
- 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 copy OHLC-002577
- 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
- 1 C60 cassette(s), 1 printed abstract(s), 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract, 1 interview(s), 1 Hours Duration, Oral histories, Electronic records (Digital records), Electronic documents, Textual file, Illustration: Black and white photograph of Bert Lee, 1988, Equipment used: Sony WM-D6C
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Interview with Bert Lee, printed abstract
Date: 12 Sept 1988
From: World War I Oral History Archive
Reference: OHA-0491
Description: Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s).
Interview with Bert Lee, digital abstract
Date: 12 Sep 1988
From: World War I Oral History Archive
Reference: OHDL-000336
Description: Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton, Nicholas Boyack Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s). Processing information: This file has been migrated to a different format for purposes of preservation and access.
Interview with Bert Lee, tape one
Date: 12 Sept 1988
From: World War I Oral History Archive
Reference: OHC-002689
Description: Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Arrangement: Tape sequence - 1 of 1 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s).