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Albert Barber<\/strong><\/h3>\nI was working on Apollo 11 with Presentation Department and met a rather bluff and grumpy Ronnie Noble. Little did I know that he was a war cameraman. I also now wished I had given him more respect. Looking at his wartime photo he seems to be fun. Perhaps the war changed him. \n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\nWe had little knowledge of what these men lived through, like Jack Warner \u2013 who as Dixon was the oldest sergeant in the Met!   I showed my parents around TVC and couldn\u2019t understand fully my father\u2019s fascination at watching Jack Warner rehearsing.\n

\nThis film may be of interest to many of us. Little did we know.\n

\nhttps:\/\/film.iwmcollections.org.uk\/record\/2052<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/a>\n

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\nRonnie Noble began his career in the camera department of National Screen Services. In 1939 Noble became a cameraman with Universal News. He was taken prisoner June 1942 and transported to Italy, he walked out of his prison camp when Italy capitulated in September 1943. He then travelled to Switzerland. From here he went to France,  Noble\u2019s escape and return were featured in \u2018Adventures Of A Cameraman\u2019 in Universal News of October 1944. \n

\nNoble was sent to Burma, and then to Saigon, For Universal News October 1945 he was sent to Burma, and then to Saigon,.\n

\nIn January 1950 Noble went to  BBC Children\u2019s Newsreel. In 1952 transferred to the main BBC Television Newsreel as replacement for Cyril Page, covering the Korean War. In May 1960 filmed \u2018The Royal Wedding\u2019 for Pathe News. Finally he went on to become press officer for Wimbledon Tennis. \n\n\n\n
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Sue Maiden<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have an interview with Ronnie Noble in the British Entertainment History project collection:\n

\nhttps:\/\/historyproject.org.uk\/interview\/ronnie-noble<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/a>\n

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Pat Heigham<\/strong><\/h3>\nVery, very interesting.\n

\nI was taken by the clip of General Alexander.\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\nMy father was in the North African theatre, under Alex, and reckoned he was a better General than Monty. But Monty had the ear of the Americans and said: \u201c I want\u201d and got. Ironic that Monty became the Chairman of the Governors of the school I went to!\n

\nMy favourite story of the very few that Dad told me \u2013 he didn\u2019t talk much of the war –  concerned the news that he now had a son.  His Sergeant Major coaxed him out of his tent, and said that they had better wet the baby\u2019s head – Sir. I had the vision of it being a bit like the bar scene in \u201cIce Cold in Alex\u201d. Apparently a few beers were consumed in a town that was currently in British hands and on arriving back to camp, Dad invited his Sergeant into his tent for a nightcap. \u201cBest not, Sir, I\u2019d better get the jeep back to the Americans from where I nicked it!\u201d\n\n\n\n\n

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