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Description: | British private served with 1/9th (Highlanders) Bn The Royal Scots on Western Front, 1914-1918, including Battle of Somme, 7/1916; POW, 1918
REEL 1: Recollections of operations as private with 1/9th Bn Royal Scots on Western Front: description of wearing kilt; preparations for attack on 1/Jul/1916; position in reserve; gifts from home; story of attempting to enlist with Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in Edinburgh and question of age; story of death of friend in mortar attack; description of attack on High Wood, 1916; opinion of attack; relations with officers; story of being wounded during attack at Arras, 1917; description of lying in shell hole for two days; medical treatment; story of firing Lewis gun at Germans and being taken prisoner, 22/Mar/1918; attitude to being POW; description of being under shellfire.
REEL 2 Continues: memory of seeing Queen Victoria, 1896; reason for joining army; injury to left eye; story of being captured at St Quentin, 22/Mar/1918; attitude to being taken prisoner; description of Somme battlefield, 1/Jul/1916; moved to trenches near High Wood; description of attacks on High Wood; casualties; various memories of operations in Somme area. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hay, William | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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