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Description: | British private served on Western Front, 1917; POW in France and Belgium, 1917-1918
REEL 1: Recollections of operations on Western Front, 1917: in line in Ypres sector, Belgium, 5-9/1917: memory of segeant major; amusing story of compass; description of attack on German blockhouse; transferred to Somme area, France; story of sheltering behind tank named Daffodil during tank attack at Cambrai, 20/Nov/1917; story of German POWs and transporting them by horse and cart. Aspects of period as POW, 1917-1918: circumstances of capture and description of POW camp in Lille; opinion of food; role in working party on railways in Belgium; story of boots being burned and wearing sabots; accommodation and problem of lice; description of camp food and receiving food parcels; scarcity of soap; POW clothing. Reflections on the war and opinion of Germans. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Coulton, Frank | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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