Oral history interview with Dennis Parker

Title Oral history interview with Dennis Parker, 2022

Interview date 10/06/2022

Interview location Interviewee’s home

Interview length 01:31:06

Interview reference ARC2023/011/020

Interview summary

Dennis (DP) talks about enjoying drill and his previous experience as an Army Cadet. He talks about attending local and national duties, treating D-Day casualties, and working in hospitals. DP describes traumatic incidents and injuries, and provision of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation DP talks about his life with St John as an adult Ambulance member in training Cadets for competitions and taking them to Camp. DP talks about running Cadet and adult Divisions, and the different roles that he undertook within the organisation. He goes on to talk about fundraising for the St John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem. DP talks about the awards that he received, and his familial connection to St John outside of the organisation.

Starting year: 1941

Starting Division/Unit: Grays Brigade Cadet Division, Essex

Accompanying records: Accompanying Dennis’s oral history interview are photographs of Dennis as a Cadet and adult member of St John Ambulance.

Last updated: SD 30/03/2023

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