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Description: | British NCO served with 9th Bn, York and Lancaster Regt on Western Front, 1916
REEL 1 Recollections of attack in Ovillers sector, Somme area, France, 1/7/1916: break down of attack in No Mans Land; death of wounded friend; inability to find shelter in shell hole; return wounded to British frontline; evacuation by stretcher bearers; conditions of service and working parties during rest periods; state of morale on move into line, 30/6/1916; sleep in assembly trenches, 30/6/1916; casualties; lack of post-war contact with comrades; rumours of soldiers' self inflicted wounds prior to attack; question of Blighty wounds; wounded soldier in No Mans Land; reaction to German machine gun and shell fire. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Middlebrook, Martin | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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