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Description: | British NCO served with 1/4th Bn Lincolnshire Regiment in GB and on Western Front, 1914-1917; served with 2nd Bn Lincolnshire Regt on Western Front, 1917; POW in Germany, 1917-1918
REEL 1 Aspects of recruitment and training with 1/4th Bn Lincolnshire Regt in Lincoln and Luton area, 8/1914-2/1915. Voyage aboard Golden Eagle from Southampton to Le Havre, France, 3/1915. Recollections of operations with 1/4th Bn Lincolnshire Regt on Western Front in Kemmel sector, Ypres area, Belgium, 3/1915-6/1915: train journey and initial movements; death of Colonel Jessop, 4/6/1915; question of Belgian spy activity and their use of dog; attitude of inexperienced soldiers attached for trench experience. Aspects of operations in Ypres area, 6/1915: situation in Hill 60 sector; conditions of service.
REEL 2 Continues: Aspects of period as POW in Germany, 1917-1918: story of escaping from farm billet in Luneberg area, Germany and following railway line to Soltau; compass smuggled in jam jar from Red Cross; route followed and circumstances of re-capture at Meppem.
REEL 3 Continues: re-capture and imprisonment in cell; search and success in concealing compass and map. Aspects of period as POW in Soltau Camp, Germany; period in NCOs POW Camp, Germany; dispute over refusal to salute with German guard; trip to collect parcels in wagon; bartering soap for food. Voyage back to Hull, 24/12/1918-25/12/1918. Medical treatment and hospitalisation in GB, 1919.
REEL 4 Recollections of operations as private with 1/4th Bn Lincolnshire Regt in Ypres area, Western Front, 6/1915-10/1915: stories illustrating effects of German shell fire; story of attempt to rescue trapped gunner from collapsed dugout; story illustrating problems with flooded communications trenches; rat problem. Aspects of period in Egypt, 1/1916-2/1916. Aspects of operations at Souchez, Vimy Ridge, Arras area, 3/1916-4/1916: night patrols in No Man's Land.
REEL 5 Continues: night patrols in No Man's Land. Recollections of attack with 2nd Bn Lincolnshire Regt towards Langemarck in Ypres area, 16/8/1917: initial support role; move into attack; hand grenade attack on German pillbox; multiple wounds from shell and capture; story of being initially left for dead; journey to Germany. Aspects of period as POW in Germany, 1917-1918: hospitalisation in Dortmund; story of arrest while walking outside hospital and subsequent beating; periods at Dolmund and Isle of Nordoney POW Camps; operations on wounds and hospitalisation, 12/1917-2/1918; move to Soltau POW Camp, Germany, 2/1918.
REEL 6 Continues: food; concert party; latrines. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Lincoln Teachers' Centre | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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