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Description: | British civilian worked as engine cleaner and fireman for the North Staffordshire Railway, Staffs, GB, 1911-1914; sapper served with Royal Engineers and Royal Engineers Railway Operating Division on Western Front, 1915-1919
REEL 1: Aspects of period as engine cleaner and fireman for North Staffordshire Railway in GB, 1911-1914: description of work; enlisted with Royal Engineers, 9/1914. Aspects of operations as sapper with Royal Engineers and Railway Operating Div on Western Front, 1915-1919: posted to France, 2/1915; transferred to Ypres Salient, Belgium, 4/1915; injured by shrapnel; volunteered for Railway Operating Div and posted to Albert, Somme, France; duties transporting wounded; fumigation of trains; description of French railway system; signals; routes. Post-war life and employment with North Staffordshire Railway in GB: working hours; question of promotion; effect on railways of loss of men during war.
REEL 2 Continues: Aspects of post-war employment as driver with North Staffordshire Railway in GB. Further aspects of operations as sapper with Royal Engineers and Railway Operating Div on Western Front, 1915-1919: story of volunteering for Railway Operating Div in France, 1916.
REEL 3 Continues: description of tests; story of problem with French money; daily routine and duties with Railway Operating Div; description of events during German offensive, 3/1918; damage to trains and depots; passed test as driver; duties on ammunition and ambulance trains; routes; description of ambulance trains and care of wounded; fumigation of ambulance trains after each journey; routes; problem with French language; proximity to trenches and question of danger; story of troop train; dixies of tea; various memories of Indian labourers employed by Railway Operating Div; story of guard selling train whistles; story of naval gun; story of rum; description of shell fire; story of ammunition dump blowing up. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Terson, Peter | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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