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Mr Ray Caradeuc interviewed by Margaret Le Cras

Transcribers note : Transcription difficult at times because interviewer was nearer the microphone and her interjections sometimes upstage Mr Le Caradeuc, who is rather faint. Where the interviewer’s comments are relevant they have been transcribed in full.

I………. So did you carry on from there all through the war?
Ray Caradeuc. Ah, no. I left on the third year. Because we fell out. We never had words, [ ] I came that day for lunch, I had a little potato put in the centre of my plate, that’s all, I thought that was an insult.
I………. He’d have done better not to give you anything.
Ray Caradeuc. I didn’t say nothing, I didn’t tell him, but I went to see Bonny Martel, the Jaonnets, he was a young person, and I said to him, what about this, he had a laugh, he deserves what he is going to get. He said I’ll be there seven o’clock in the morning, with the horse and cart, and I took all my stuff, and I never saw him since, so that was it
I………. So you worked for Bonny Martel…
Ray Caradeuc. No. I worked for myself. I went to work for myself making crystal sets. And repairing all peoples radios that had transformers, because my job was rewinding transformers, making coils, rewinding them, headphones — do you remember the phones we used to have
I………. Used to have to put it to your …
Ray Caradeuc. and used to have one that was like that. [Used to rewind those as well] And my colleague, radio work, used to repair them. I’ve seen him to have thirty radios in the Croutes. The Germans [ ] And what annoyed me most, eh, the [ ] they used to bring their radios in a sack. Everyone could see it was a radio! Excuse my language .

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