KILGOUR, David Ronald
Imperial War Museum Collection,
Accession Number E000246
- Imperial War Museum
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- 3
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- IWM
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- 01:09:34
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- English
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Reel/Disc 1 of 3
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- 00:29:30
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Background to enlistment with Royal Navy in GB, 1940: medical training at St Mary's Hospital, 1940; call up; degree of training at HMS Pembroke; reasons for choosing Royal Navy. Recollections of period as doctor aboard HMS Durban in Far East, 1941-1942: voyage from GB to Malaya; joining ship in Peneng; ship's complement and their general health; ship's unsuitability for service in Far East and conditions on board; treatment of skin disorders; settling in; non-medical duties; opinion of rum ration; opinion of ship's captains; accommodation; regular ports of call; solitary cruising; lack of premonition of war with Japan and degree of awareness of wars progress; start of war against Japan; impact of loss of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse.
[Production date : 1986]
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Reel/Disc 2 of 3
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- 00:29:51
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Continues: convoy escort duties, 12/1941-2/1942; action station in emergency sickbay in wardroom; Japanese air attack on ship on route to Singapore; taking on board evacuees; sight of flames on Singapore Island; Japanese air attacks on leaving Singapore; direct hits on ship; nature of Japanese air attacks; ship's evasive actions; dealing with wounded; heat exhaustion amongst engine room personnel; sick bay and operating facilities; fuel endurance and victualling of ship; repairs to ship in Batavia; further repairs to ship in Columbo, Durban and Brooklyn Naval Yard in US; period in New York,
[Production date : 1986]
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Reel/Disc 3 of 3
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- 00:10:13
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Continues: return to GB; fate of HMS Durban; ship's medical personnel; equipment and sterilisation technique; lack of blood for transfusions; X-ray machine; range of drugs; question of adequacy of medical facilities on board; use of volunteers to remove severely wounded; anaesthetics.
[Production date : 1986]
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