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Description: | British NCO served as Lewis gunner with 33rd Div on Western Front, 1917-1918
REEL 1: Recollections of operations as NCO with 33rd Div on Western Front, 1917-1918: description of landscape around Ypres salient, Belgium; problem of reinforcements; story of transporting gas shells on miniature railway up to front line; problem of wind direction changing after release of gas; transferred to Arras sector, France; memory of CO Col. H.C. McNeile, creator of fictional character Bulldog Drummond; description of conditions in trenches and problem of drainage; sanitary facilities behind lines; effects on health; daily routine in trenches; memory of cutting meat from dead horses; problem of rats; description of role as machine gun sergeant in charge of Lewis gun section and loss of eight of ten crew at Ypres; attitude to award of medals; story of corporal being shot in head by sniper; demoted on return to GB after striking an officer; comparison of First and Second World Wars. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hillson, Frank | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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