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Description: | British private served with 1st Bn East Surrey Regt on Western Front, 1914-1918
REEL 1: Recollections of operations as private with 1st Bn East Surrey Regt on Western Front, 1914-1918: reason for enlistment; training; posted to France; moved into reserve line; sleeping arrangements; living conditions in trenches; daily routine and duties; attitude to fear; story of being hit by shrapnel; description of going over the top in second line; duties as Bn bugler; effects of war on nerves and treatment for shell shock; recreational activities; comradeship; attitude to army life and discipline; memories of German POWs; attitude to Germans; story of sounding alarm on bugle after mass escape of German POWs. | 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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