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Description: | British sapper served with Railway Operating Div Royal Engineers on Western Front, 1916-1918
REEL 1: Recollections of operations with Railway Operating Div Royal Engineers on Western Front, 1916-1918: description of duties supplying troops in France and Belgium; track gauges; transportation of ammunition and rations; evacuation of casualties; personnel; training; light railways; description of terrain; post-war duties clearing battlefields; attitude to Germans; civilian employment on railways; various memories of daily life in Chilcompton; relations with civilians.
REEL 2 Continues: description of retreat following German offensive, 3/1918; question of obtaining food from civilians; problem of finding billets; memories of Armistice, 11/1918; story of letters; daily routine and duties; use of codes in letters; opinion of adequacy of basic training; gas training; story of returning home; memory of troops going into line at Passchendaele; story of building railway at Achieux, Somme; description of train journey to Poperinghe; distances covered; importance of previous experience as civilian railwayman.
REEL 3 Continues: reaction to being posted overseas; memory of outbreak of war, 8/1914; question of reserved occupation as railwayman; volunteered under Derby Scheme. Various memories of pre-and post-war life and employment in Chilcompton. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Howell, Chris | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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