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