Titford, Bill. Interview about Spaniard's Bay legion.

• Main Author: Lane, Thomas
• Other Authors: Titford, Bill
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Subjects: Objects; Artifacts; Storytelling; Hutchings; Allan; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/6592

Thomas Lane interviews Bill Titford about the Spaniard's Bay legion including some of the artifacts and stories at the Corporeal Matthew Brazil Legion. Bill Titford was born in Shearstown and moved to Spaniard’s Bay in 1942; education; 00:42 - joining Spaniard’s Bay Legion in October 1973; 1:40 - activities at the legion; Santa Claus parade; social club; bingo; 3:02 - membership in the legion; connections between the local legions; 6:07 - naming the Corporeal Matthew Brazil Legion; Croix de Guerre award from France; 7:53 - names and numbers of the different legions; 9:05 - Legion governance; artifacts and stories in Spaniard’s Bay Legion; portrait of Claude Shepherd; 12:50 - elected positions in the legion; Bill Titford’s positions in the legion; 14:14 - family names involved in the legion; 15:07 - donation of artifacts; 16:01 - grave of John C. Chipman; joining the legion; 19:17 - special events; fundraising for cystic fibrosis; Memorial Day and Remembrance day; 20:52 - Legion’s contribution to the community; 21:57 - start of the legion in Spaniard’s Bay; Return Soldiers and Volunteers Organization; Great War Veterans Association; 24:22 - War veterans; 25:19 - remembrance period; 26:05 - similarities and differences between the legions; legions across Canada and Europe; need for the legion; 28:09 - other organizations in which the legion is involved; establishment of a legion; closure of the legion; number of veterans Bill Titford met; 31:45 - how the Legion would prefer in the case of a war; number of men involved in the Spaniard’s Bay Legion; 34:51 - women’s involvement with the legion; 35:34 - pictures of the legion; 37:32 - joining the legion; books in the legion; Gulf War; Vietnam War; 41:00 - Military medals; Legions in Newfoundland; Provincial Command; 44:02 - World War Two veterans in the area.