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Description: | British private served with 2/4th Bn Gloucestershire Regt on Western Front, 1916, and with 7th Bn Gloucestershire Regt in India, 1917-1918; survivor of sinking of troopship SS Cameronia in Mediterranean, 15/Apr/1917
REEL 1: Recollections of operations as private with 2/4th and 7th Bns Gloucestershire Regt on Western Front and in India, 1916-1918: description of being torpedoed aboard troopship SS Cameronia, 15/Apr/1917; story of being by wounded by shrapnel in Happy Valley sector, Somme, France, 7/1916; medical treatment in France and GB; memory of visit in hospital by King and Queen; trained as signaller; memories of train travel in India; opinion of Indian food; posted to Salonika, 1918; signal instructor; reason for enlistment with Gloucestershire Regt; training; medical examination; memory of travelling in cattle trucks; description of terrain in Happy Valley sector, Somme; further description of being wounded by shrapnel and medical treatment; story of sergeant guardsman; further description of being torpedoed aboard troopship SS Cameronia, 15/Apr/1917.
REEL 2 Continues: story of officer in lifeboat; rescued by destroyer Nemesis; memory of ship sinking and bodies floating on water; sailed to Malta and period in transit camp; sailed to Alexandria, Egypt and re-equipped; casualties in sinking of Cameronia; attitude to superstitions; post-war life and employment; problem of recurring malaria; further comments on period on Somme and publishing story about wartime experiences . | 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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