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Description: | British private served with 13th Bn York and Lancaster Regt in Battle of Somme, 1/Jul/1916
REEL 1: Recollections of operations as private with 13th Bn York and Lancaster Regt in Battle of Somme, 1/Jul/1916: question of Germans being ready for British attack; story of route march with full pack on night before battle; physical fitness and pre-war employment as miner; description of leaving trench and crossing No Man's Land; casualties; took cover in shell hole; story of roll call after battle and number of dead and wounded in 13th Bn; arrival of reinforcements; opinion of officers; opinion of Haig; description of digging saps and filling with TNT; story of Jack Bass and formation of B Coy from miners at colliery; description of raiding parties to capture prisoners and nature of interrogation; attitude to revisiting battlefields; problem of finding post-war employment as miner; home leave and visiting relatives of bereaved; death of two brothers in war; question of age in 1916 and attitude to war; amusing story of advice from general about killing Germans. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hall, Harry | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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