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Description: | British private served with 2/4th and 1/4th Bns Duke of Wellington’s Regt on Western Front, 1917-1918
REEL 1: Recollection of operations as private with 2/4th and 1/4th Bns Duke of Wellington’s Regt on Western Front, 1917-1918: story about statue of Golden Virgin in Albert, Somme, France; description of living conditions in trenches at Ypres, Belgium; rotation system in front line trenches; opinion of rations; problem of water tasting of petrol; method of opening bully tin with bayonet; tea; sleeping arrangements in dugout; problem of rats; further description of living conditions in trenches at Ypres and Passchendaele; reason for trenches not being straight; description of putting up barbed wire defences; use of white tape to identify shell holes in no man’s land; relations with French civilians; disembarked in Boulogne; marched to camp; accommodation and sleeping arrangements in huts; story of visiting missing soldier’s family in Yorkshire; entitled to wear two wound stripes; duties with working party in Ypres; use of mules to transport supplies; story of being wounded and treatment at dressing station; story about tanks.
REEL 2 Continues: demobilisation; various aspects of post-war life and employment as hairdresser in Bradford; memories of Tong Church; religious beliefs; attitude to fear; story of cutting officer’s hair; story of boxing competition at Clipstone Camp; reaction to death of friend Harry Slater; bayonet and Mills bomb training; story of boat on Canal du Nord. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Barraclough, Arthur | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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