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Description: | British NCO served with 10th Bn Lancashire Fusiliers on Western Front, 1918
REEL 1: Recollections of operations with 10th Bn Lancashire Fusiliers on Western Front, 1918: posted to Somme area, France, 7/1918; amusing story of Marshal Foch; into line in Mesnil sector; story of attacks by German aircraft; memories of volunteering and basic training in GB, 1917; attitude to overseas service; gas training; attitude to responsibilities as NCO; story of capturing German machine gun team; description of gas attack; moved to Flers sector; description of British dead and wounded; memories of post-war visits to battlefield cemeteries.
REEL 2 Continues: story of corporal winning VC; various memories of officers and other ranks; shell shock cases; sleeping arrangements in trenches; opinion of rations; church parades and religious beliefs; topics of conversation; opinion of press coverage of war; attitude to discipline; description of leading section; memory of mutilated corpses.
REEL 3 Continues: duties as orderly sergeant with HQ Coy; rations; communications with home; story of meeting American troops; problem of lice; amusing story of drill; relations with French civilians; German occupation; memories of Armistice, 11/11/1918; story of German wounded in church; story of German prisoners.
REEL 4 Continues: terrain and villages in Somme area | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hodges, Frederick James | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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