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Description: | British NCO served as stretcher bearer with Royal Army Medical Corps at Ypres, Belgium, 1915.
REEL 1: Background: joined Territorials in 1912 age 16 and question of joining underage; pride in belonging to Royal Army Medical Corps. Aspects of operations as stretcher bearer with Royal Army Medical Corps at Ypres Salient, 1915: use of horses to draw ambulances; role of stretcher bearers; description of gas attack and effects of gas; story of being shot in back by German sniper, 20/Apr/1915; nature of wound and treatment; memory of back wound being used to illustrate medical lecture; question of morale; problem of cold; question of fear; further comments on back wound. | 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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