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Description: | British private served with 1st Bn Northamptonshire Regt on Western Front, 1914-1916
REEL 1: Amusing story of cooking chicken on Somme, 1916. Aspects of training with British Army in GB, 1913-1914: story of pre-war training exercise under Haig at Aldershot; question of age on enlistment, 1913; posted to Special Reserve for four months training; rates of pay; food. Aspects of operations with 1st Bn Northamptonshire Regt during Battle of Aubers Ridge, France, 9/May/1915: various memories of Capt B L Dickson; description of battlefield and trenches; German machine guns; casualties; story of helping wounded British officer; story of being wounded and returning to own trenches; medical treatment; opinion of Black Watch at Aubers Ridge. Further aspects of pre-war training: story of enlistment, 1913.
REEL 2 Continues: care of uniform; description of basic training at Aldershot; question of being sent to Ireland; memory of outbreak of war, 8/1914. Aspects of operations with 1st Bn Northamptonshire Regt on Western Front, 10/1914-5/1915: reason for not serving overseas until October, 1914; various memories of action during First Battle of Ypres, Belgium, 10-11/1914; marched to Hazebrouck; memories of Indian troops; trained as machine gunner; opinion of billets in house; various stories about soldier nicknamed ‘knobbler’; memory of seeing London buses in civilian livery in Hazebrouck square, 12/1915; embossed to front line; amusing story of dead cows; methods of transport; memories of Albert; relieved Indian troops; story of capturing trench; moved to Givenchy area; opinion of Guards; various memories of life at depot in GB; description of brickfields; summary of movements; moved into line after gas attack at Ypres, 4/1915; held in reserve at Neuve Chapelle; further comments on being wounded at Battle of Aubers Ridge, 9/May/1915.
REEL 3 Continues: nature of wound; returned to GB for further medical treatment. Aspects of period in GB, 5-9/1915: description of treatment in hospital in Leicester; leave; posted to training battalion in Gillingham; amusing story about ‘Dr Fit’; posted back to Western Front, 9/1915. Aspects of operations with 1st Bn Northamptonshire Regt of Western Front, 9/1915-7/1916: description of experiences during Battle of Loos, France, 9/1915: smell of horses and corpses; story of rubber boots; problem of mud and cleaning uniform and kit; description of work of miners; story about Lloyd George and shell shortage; moved into Somme area, France, 7/1916; opinion of operations on Somme; summary of movements; story of being wounded by shrapnel at Pozieres,7/1916; medical treatment at dressing station in Contalmaison; story of ambulance being blown up; amusing story of rice; description of hospital orderlies burning amputated limbs in boiler of railway engine; sanitary arrangements; amusing story of Australian soldier; story of being offered brandy by nurse; story of severely wounded Yorkshire soldier.
REEL 3 Continues: sailed to Southampton. Aspects of period in GB, 1916: sent card to next of kin; repatriation of brother; problem of shaving; taken to hospital in Newport, South Wales; treatment of septic wound in neck; amusing story of inspection by general. Further memories of period on Western Front, 1914-1916: problem of lice and rats; amusing story of Very lights. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Marshall, W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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