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Description: | British bombadier served as signaller with Royal Artillery on Western Front,1914-1918
REEL 1: Story of joining Territorial Army at age sixteen; education; apprenticeship with building firm and experience as signaller. Aspects of training with Royal Artillery in GB, 1914: story of call-up into Royal Artillery and rank of bombadier; problem of shortages of equipment and men in early days of war; description of training at Billericay and Salisbury Plain; description of journey from Southampton to Le Havre, 1914. Recollections of operations as bombadier with Royal Artillery on Western Front, 1914-1918: signalling equipment; story of gas attack on battery, Somme area, 1916; question of camouflage of guns and opinion of General ; casualties.
REEL 2 Continues: description of laying signalling lines under fire; effects of gas attack on health; memory of friend shot for 'cowardice'; story of demobilization, 1918; further comments on effects of gas and gas masks; memory of battery Major; description of role of artillery during attack on Hill 60; story of shed where deserters were shot; attitude to Germans and opinion of VE Day celebrations, 1995; description of shell landing on gun limber and death of horses; further comments on General's role during gas attack, 1916. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Blundy, Percy William | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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