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Description: | British private served with British Army on Western Front, 1914-1915; includes recollections of Christmas truce, 1914
REEL 1: Recollectons of operations as private on Western Front, 1914-1915: sleeping arrangements; problem of not changing clothes for months; duties escorting German POWs from front line to camps in France; cessation of hostilities over Christmas 1914; story of friend Bob Lowry singing Christmas carols and Germans responding; description of Christmas Box from Royal Family; story of receiving souvenir from Bengal Lancer of string of ears cut off from dead Germans; various memories of use of gas during Battle of Ypres, 4/1915. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Robson, Chris | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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