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Description: | British private served with 12th Bn York and Lancaster Regt in Battle of the Somme, France, 1/Jul/1916
REEL 1: Recollections of operations as private with 12th Bn York and Lancaster Regt in Battle of the Somme, France, 1/Jul/1916: ordered walk across No Man's Land; casualties; question of watching for visual signals and advance; helped take wounded to Observation Wood; story of being sent to prevent further rations being sent following heavy losses in Bn; memory of seeing POW cage; question of being ordered not to run or lie down during advance; memory of seeing men hit and falling down; story of address by General Hunter-Weston in Observation Wood on night before attack; description of collecting flowers from No Man's Land in memory of fallen comrades; attitude to army training and discipline; reflections on war and remembrance. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Glenn, Reginald | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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