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Description: | British officer served with Royal Artillery on Western Front, 1917
REEL 1 Recollections of operations as 6" howitzer battery commander with Royal Artillery in Ypres area, Belgium, 1917: ground conditions in new gun positions at Westhoek; use of timber road 'GS Avenue' used by GS wagons for bringing up supplies and effect of German shell fire; filling in shell holes to prepare gun positions; casualties from German counter-battery fire and difficulty in moving out guns; German counter battery shell fire; nature of battery command dugouts; effects of German shell hitting ammunition dump; question of personal morale; importance of comradeship; period of leave in GB and willingness to return to active service; stories illustrating impact of imagination on personal morale; story of German shell fire directed by German artillery observation aircraft. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Stoneham, E W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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