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Description: | British private served with Royal Army Medical Corps on Western Front, 1914-1916
REEL 1: Background in GB: story of joining Territorial Army in Canterbury; transferred to Royal Army Medical Corps at outbreak of war, 8/1914; posted to France, 12/1914. Aspects of operations with Royal Army Medical Corps on Western Front, 1914-1916: present during Second Battle of Ypres, Belgium, 1915; story of winning Military Medal for rescuing wounded; landed at Le Havre, France; transported in cattle trucks to Ypres; story of carrying wounded soldier on back; opinion of senior command; morale; attitude to fear; comparison of British and German weapons; reason for joining Royal Army Medical Corps; memories of brother; description of shelling in Ypres. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Jackson, Michael Judah | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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