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Description: | British private served as signaller with 1st Bn South Wales Borderers on Western Front, 1917-1918
REEL 1: Story of enlistment with Shropshire Light Infantry, Shrewsbury, GB, 1915; question of being underage; trained as signaller; drafted to France, 1917; transferred to 1st Bn South Wales Borderers at Dunkirk. Recollections of operations as signaller with 1st Bn South Wales Borderers on Western Front, 1917-1918: posted to Passchendaele Ridge, Belgium; memory of Welsh soldiers singing; strength of battalion; terrain; description of going over the top; casualties; death of friends; wounded by shrapnel in back; memory of soldier killed by shrapnel in trench; signalling equipment; running messages to HQ; casualties in 1st Bn after action; problem of mud and rain; billets out of line; opinion of rations; summary of movements in France; duties as linesman; equipment; story of helping wounded friends; memory of chateau and wine; awarded Military Medal for action at Festubert; concert parties; duties in listening post; use of pigeons to carry messages.
REEL 2 Continues: amusing story of sergeant with mustache; problem of lice; baths; description of going over the top; story of wounded German and photograph; description of action at Maissemy, France, 9/1918; burial party; story of post-war meeting with member of 1st Bn; memories of Armistice Day and celebrations at Fresnoy-le-Grand, France, 11/11/1918; marched into Germany with regimental colours; billets in farm; night patrols; memory of Christmas, 1918; story of officer and German girl; returned to camp at Kinmel Park, GB; demobilised at Prees Heath camp, Shropshire, 1919. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Smith, Bob | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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