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Description: | British private served as driver with 1st West Lancashire Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps at Gallipoli, Turkey, 4-8/1915; served as mounted orderly to Assistant Director Medical Services at 67th Div HQ on Western Front, 1917-1918
REEL 1: Background in GB: enlisted age 17 with 1st West Lancashire Field Ambulance, 4/1913; mobilised at outbreak of war, 8/1914; description of voyage to Mudros, Greece, 1915. Recollections of operations as driver with 1st West Lancashire Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, Gallipoli, Turkey, 4-8/1915 and as mounted orderly to Assistant Director Medical Services at 67th Div HQ on Western Front, 1917-1918: description of landing on X Beach, 25/Apr/1915; terrain; casualties in Lancashire Fusiliers; memory of sea covered in blood; role scouting for wounded; evacuation of wounded; problem of water shortage; opinion of success of attack; moved to Gully Beach; story of incident with wounded captain; story of burying Turkish soldier; amusing story of mules; description of being wounded and evacuated to GB, 8/1915; reason for refusing post as colonel's batman; story of being appointed mounted orderly to Assistant Director Medical Service, 67th Div, on Western Front, 1/1917: memories of Noel Chevasse VC; daily routine and duties on Gallipoli; 1915; story of water cart; problem of scaling mountains with horses; morale before landing; description of terrain; problem of Turkish shelling.
REEL 2 Continues: medals; duties with Assistant Director Medical Services; memories of Captain Jarvis; story of soldier shot for rape; shell shock cases; reaction to news of Armistice, 11/11/1918; amusing story of chateau in Lille; selection of horses for slaughter after Armistice; opinion of rations; sleeping arrangements on Gallipoli; story of female Turkish sniper.
REEL 3 Continues: use of mules; duties taking medical supplies up to line; opinion of mules; description of landing with 87th Div; memory of Scottish piper; question of not carrying weapons; description of treating wounded; comradeship; further description of landing from barge on X Beach, 25/Apr/1915; question of wearing Red Cross brassards; problem of Turkish shell fire and German naval guns; opinion of Gurkhas and Punjabis; description of operating theatres; role as wheel driver; amusing story of raft; attitude to fear; comradeship; further memories of being wounded.
REEL: 4 Continues: story of taking horses to Arras; post-war visits to Ypres; story of killing German sniper with Mills bomb; question of Germans torturing prisoners; story of American general visiting medical facilities; daily life at 67th Div HQ on Western Front. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Yorston, Richard | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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