BHRU mp3 audio files - page 1

Recordings made in the 1980s by the Bradford Heritage Recording Unit - time of audio clip given in brackets

1. An ex-Bradford Pals soldier (Second Battalion) recalls enlisting for a pound a week - play clip (1:33)
2. Joining up on Manningham Lane is recalled - play clip (0:27)
3. 'A different England' is recalled by this man - play clip (0:27)
4. Another recalls how he felt he 'ought' to go to war and how the army paid his mother six shillings a week while he was away - play clip (1:27)
5. A man describes the medical examination he underwent prior to enlisting and how he had to do exercises to expand his chest before he was accepted - play clip (1:40)
6. Another recalls how his hobby of running stood him in good stead for his army medical - play clip (0:28)
7. A man recalls how pleased he was when finally placed into a camp, so that the jibes - chocolate soldier, boy scout etc., - could stop - play clip (0:32)
8. A man remembers how the 1st Pals wore blue uniforms but his battalion wore khaki. He recalls marching to Ripon from Bradford, the songs the marchers sang and the state of his feet! - play clip (2:08)
9. A serving soldier at the time recalls being sent to Bradford in 1915 to recruit local men - play clip (1:15)
10. The discipline of army life is recalled - play clip (0:26)
11. A serving soldier at the time recalls football matches between battalions - play clip (0:15)
12. Troop movements around England and a confrontation with an Italian ship off the coast of Malta are remembered - play clip (1:43)

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