BURIED BATTLES AND VETERANS’ VOICES

AN A4A PROJECT

BY SURREY HISTORY CENTRE

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES

QUEEN’S ROYAL SURREY REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM

THE QUEEN’S ROYAL SURREY REGIMENT

Formed 1959 out of

• East Surrey Regiment, formerly 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment and 70th (Surrey) Regiment

• Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey), formerly 2nd Foot

Absorbed into Queen’s Royal Regiment, 1966

2nd Battalion, Queen’s, Boer War

2nd Battalion, Queen’s, Boer War

War diary of 7th Battalion, Queen’s, 1 July 1916

1st Battalion, East Surreys, advancing at the Somme

2nd Battalion, East Surreys, leaving Dublin, 1922

Standing Camp, Ranakhet

View of Himalayas

Italian campaign, 1943

German propaganda to demoralise British troops in Italy, World War II

1) To 'conserve and enhance our diverse heritage

2) To 'encourage communities to identify, look after and celebrate their heritage‘

3) To 'increase opportunities for learning about heritage‘

4) To 'open up heritage resources to the widest possible audiences'.

HERITAGE LOTTERY FUNDS PRIORITIES

BURIED BATTLES AND VETERANS’ VOICES

1) Detailed catalogue of regimental records to be mounted on A2A website and Surrey History Centre’s website

2) 23 new interviews with veterans

3) 25 existing interviews to be converted into digital format

4) Web pages containing themed clips from interviews

5) Exhibition to tour Surrey libraries and museums after formal end of project.

A4A PRIORITIES

1) Partnership

2) Community and intergenerational involvement

3) Skills sharing

4) Digitisation

5) Enabling contributors to tell their own story

BURIED BATTLES AND VETERANS’ VOICES

Archivist’s salary (13 months) £23,650

Recording, editing, web-mounting48 new and existing interviews £18,000

Exhibition and publicity £1,500

Travel and overheads £2,520

TOTAL GRANT £47,900

(82% of total project costs of £58,736)

Sid Richardson, REME, cataloguing a photograph album

Roy Harding, Queen’s, being interviewed