Bill Wold
Bill belongs to: Royal British Legion Seaman's Mess
Bill was born in South Shields. He left school at 14. After working in a hotel down south Bill joined the merchant navy. During World War Two Bill was in the Arctic convoys and at the D-Day landings dropping off armaments.
Bill was interviewed by Kylea Little on 8 November 2005. The interview took place at South Shields Royal British Legion and lasted 16 minutes and 21 seconds.
Danger at sea
"It’s always dangerous at sea. Every day is a danger at sea. "
It’s always dangerous at sea. Every day is a danger at sea.
Well, there’s the rules of the road, you know, that’s international. But, the only thing we did aboard ship was anything that moved we lashed it down, so that it didn’t move. But there’s danger all the time at sea from weather and all different sorts of things.
Bill has 17 memories in the memorynet:
Bill's memories with a Safety theme:
Danger at sea
Bill's other memories:
- Adjusting to life at sea
- Training in the merchant navy
- Conditions in the merchant navy
- Food in the merchant navy
- The uniform in the merchant navy
- Durban
- Living conditions
- What does the sea mean to you?
Photograph of Bill- Submarine in Cape Town
- Photograph of Bill
- Continuous Certificate of Discharge
- A Marconigram from the King
- Russian medal
- Medal for the Normandy landings
- Certificate for the Normandy landings
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