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Description: | British NCO served with 7th Bn South Wales Borderers in Salonika, Greece, 1915-1918
REEL 1: Background in GB and France, 1893-1915: enlisted with South Wales Borderers in Brecon, 1914; reaction of parents; family; drafted to France, 1915; in trenches at Aveluy Wood, Somme sector; posted to Salonika, 1915; description of voyage aboard troopship Lake Manitoba to Salonika; problem of seasickness. Recollections of operations as NCO with 7th Bn South Wales Borderers in Salonika, Greece, 1915-1918: first impressions of Salonika; in trenches at Machine Gun Hill; digging trenches; duties as runner; interrogation of German POW; composition of 7th Bn; officers; opinion of Colonel Grimwood; location of gun batteries; shelling of trenches; climate; problem of malaria and treatment; state of health; opinion of rations; problem of lice; barbed wire; daily life out of line; accommodation in bivouacs; description of terrain in Lake Doran sector; opinion of Colonel Burgess; evacuated back to GB with malaria and discharged, 1918; communication with home. Post-war life and employment as coal miner in South Wales. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Smith, Bob | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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