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Description: | British private served with 23rd Bn Manchester Regt and 8th Bn Devonshire Regt on Western Front and in Italy, 1916-1918
REEL 1: Recollections of operations as private with 23rd Bn Manchester Regt and 8th Bn Devonshire Regt on Western Front and in Italy, 1916-1918: enlistment at Ashton-under-Lyne Barracks, Manchester, 1916, and brief description of training in GB; description of operations in River Piave area, Italy; memory of leave in Paris; question of pay; reason for enlisting; opinion of Americans and question of racial prejudice; various memories of post-war military service.
REEL 2 Continues: reaction of parents to enlistment; first impressions of Western Front; death of friends; memory of seeing hand-to-hand fighting; question of German prisoners being shot; attitude to Germans; memory of celebrating Armistice Day in Italy and story of German POW, 11/11/1918; memory of seeing soldier having head blown off.
REEL 3 Continues: story of Americans and practical joke; memory of playing football at front. Further comments on period of post-war military service. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Toling, George | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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