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Description: | British private served with 7th Bn Bedfordshire Regt on Western Front, 1914-1918 including Battle of Somme, 7/1916
REEL 1: Story of enlistment in St Albans, 12/1914; memory of Kitchener poster; pre-war employment as farmer; description of uniform. Recollections of operations as private with 7th Bn Bedfordshire Regt on Western Front, 1914-1918: description of role in operations on 1/Jul/1916; question of barbed wire being cut by artillery; opinion of effectiveness of preliminary artillery bombardment; instruction to advance in pairs; position of German trenches between Fricourt and Albert; description of leaving trench and crossing No Man's Land; question of accuracy of artillery fire and cutting of barbed wire; problem of German machine guns; description of men caught on barbed wire being shot; story of killing Germans with Lewis gun and taking prisoners; reaction to death of German in trench; opinion of high command and communications; opinion of French Army; description of capture of Thiepval, 9/1916; story of German observation post in Fricourt church tower; question of following orders; story of deaf stretcher-bearer; attitude to medals; amusing story of RSM. Story of post-war visit to Somme battlefields. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Old Pals Productions | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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