Title:
Interview with Sylvia Ebel
Level: Category
Sound Archive
Level: Fonds
TED HALEY RECORDINGS
Level: Series
Southend recordings
Scope and Content:
Early life in Southend in the 1930s and service with the ATS during World War II.

SIDE A
[0:00] Childhood games; family; father's occupation [5:05] First jobs; baker's shop - hours, prices of bread [7:15] World War II; baker's shop provided sandwiches for servicemen's canteen [9:00] Volunteered for ATS in 1942; training; homesickness; discipline [15:15] Anti-aircraft gun site at Felixstowe [Suffolk] 1943 [17:55] Life on site; eye strain from using radar equipment [20:20] Sent to Eastleigh near Southampton [Hampshire]; D-Day preparations.

SIDE B
[6:30] Doodlebugs [7:30] Relations with US troops; attitude of white soldiers to black soldiers; G.I. brides [12:45] Became a regimental police woman at Feltham [Middlesex] [14:00] Uniform [16:40] VE Day [19:45] Discharge; feelings on leaving the service [21:40] End.
Dates of Creation:
28 April 1983
Extent:
46 minutes
Creator Name:
Edward Haley
Admin History:
Mrs Sylvia Ebel nee Tate was born at Prittlewell Hill on 26 December 1924.
Custodial History:
Ted Haley Accession Number A0127
Physical Characteristics:
C60 cassette
Related Unit of Description:
A photograph of the interviewee in uniform is catalogued as SA 20/1/22/4

Key terms

TypeKey termsDescription
Subjects Americans Interview with Sylvia Ebel about service in ATS during WWII, 1983
Subjects Bakeries Interview with Sylvia Ebel about service in ATS during WWII, 1983
Subjects Games Interview with Sylvia Ebel about service in ATS during WWII, 1983
Subjects Race Interview with Sylvia Ebel about service in ATS during WWII, 1983
Subjects Radar Interview with Sylvia Ebel about service in ATS during WWII, 1983
Subjects Second World War Interview with Sylvia Ebel about service in ATS during WWII, 1983
Subjects Shops Interview with Sylvia Ebel about service in ATS during WWII, 1983
Subjects VE Day Interview with Sylvia Ebel about service in ATS during WWII, 1983
Personal Names Sylvia
Ebel 		Interview with Sylvia Ebel about service in ATS during WWII, 1983
Personal Names Sylvia
Tate 		Interview with Sylvia Ebel about service in ATS during WWII, 1983
Place Names Hampshire, Eastleigh Interview with Sylvia Ebel about service in ATS during WWII, 1983
Place Names Southend-on-Sea Interview with Sylvia Ebel about service in ATS during WWII, 1983
Place Names Suffolk, Felixstowe Interview with Sylvia Ebel about service in ATS during WWII, 1983
Document Types Sound recording Interview with Sylvia Ebel about service in ATS during WWII, 1983
Institutions Auxiliary Territorial Service Interview with Sylvia Ebel about service in ATS during WWII, 1983