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Description: | British NCO served with 8th Bn Royal Fusiliers during Battle of Somme, 7/1916
REEL 1: Recollections of operations as NCO with 8th Bn Royal Fusiliers during Battle of Somme, 7/1916: location near Albert on Somme, 1/Jul/1916; moved into frontline trenches, 7/Jul/1916; death of CO Lt Col Annersley; description of attack on German trenches, 8/Jul1916; casualties; problem of German machine gun fire and barbed wire; sheltered in shell hole; bombing party; found gap in wire and took over German trenches; relieved and back to Albert; description of advancing over No Man's Land; problem of treading over bodies; description of effects of machine gun fire on advancing troops; role as sniper; sniping positions; ability as marksman; story of marching at double during training in GB; opinion of effectiveness of attack, 8/Jul/1916; casualties among officers; story of gathering pay books from dead; description of corpses; attitude to survival; comparison of machine gun fire with reaping machine; memories of CO Lt Col Annersley; pay; attached to HQ staff as sniper; story of bullet holes in rifle butt; effects of machine gun fire; death of officers. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Razzell, Alfred Charles | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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