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Description: | Canadian trooper served with Lord Strathcona's Horse on Western Front, 1916-1918
REEL 1 Recollections of operations as trooper with Lord Strathcona's Horse on Western Front, 1916-1918: nature of unit; story of assisting gunners in shell hole and subsequent view of charge led by Victoria Cross winner Lieutenant F M W Harvey on German trenches in Guyencourt sector, Somme area, France, 28/3/1917; opinion of Brigadier J E B Seeley; withdrawal into rest area and theft of British waders from stores; speech from Seeley explaining operations at Guyencourt; role as despatch rider and value of horse; story of close escape from shell hitting nearby latrine; story of cook's accident cooking with lights out whilst concealed in woods to avoid aerial observation; advance under open warfare conditions, 8/1918, including weaponry, capture of German train, casualties from German machine gun fire at Leroy; story of being wounded whilst attempting to locate missing patrol, 10/1918; medical treatment from French civilians. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Anon | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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