SURREY HISTORY CENTRE TO RECORD VETERANS’ MEMORIES FOR POSTERITY WITH £48K
HERITAGE LOTTERY FUNDING
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has just awarded a grant of nearly £48K to
Surrey History Centre in Woking, in partnership with the Queen's Royal
Surrey Regiment Museum and the National Archives, to capture for posterity
the reminiscences of veterans of the regiment and its predecessors the
Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey) and the East Surrey Regiment.
The project, entitled ‘Buried Battles and Veterans’ Voices’, is part of the
‘Archives 4 All’ initiative hosted by the National Archives. It will record
the experiences of veterans of the regiments who experienced some of the
defining moments of the Second World War such as Dunkirk, the fall of
Singapore, Montecassino and the D-Day Landings. It will also seek to
capture the memories of soldiers involved in vital but less well-known
post-war operations in Palestine, Malaya, Korea, Berlin and Northern
Ireland. A ‘virtual archive’ of clips from the veterans’ interviews,
photographs and documents will be available on the internet.
In addition the project, which will start this Summer, will employ an
archivist to produce a definitive catalogue of the great regimental archive
which currently occupies 45.5 linear metres in the History Centre’s
strongrooms. The catalogue will be available online and in the Centre’s
public searchroom, where users will be able to identify the unique items
which relate to their family and military research.
It is anticipated that the whole project will run for 13 months and will
conclude with a travelling exhibition. Further details of the project can
be found on the Surrey History Centre website via the following link
http://www.surreycc.gov. uk/sccwebsite/sccwspag
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Mike Page
Surrey History Centre
130 Goldsworth Road
Woking
Surrey
GU21 6ND
01483 518737
www.surreycc.gov.uk/surreyhistoryservice
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