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Description: | British NCO served as railway clerk with Royal Army Ordnance Corps on Western Front, 1914-1918
REEL 1: Aspects of operations as clerk with Royal Army Ordnance Corps on Western Front, 1914-1918: role as liaison between Royal Engineers and railway system; use of code book for notifying railheads of deliveries; nature of goods transported including clothing, boots and gas masks; opinion of rations; trucks numbered for particular divisions; duties checking and making out weigh bills; reasons for volunteering in 1914 and pre-war employment on railways. Reflections on period of service and post-war employment in docks. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | BBC Radio Kent | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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