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Description: | British civilian worked as wagon boy delivering food supplies to Tidworth Barracks, Wiltshire, GB, 1914-1918
REEL 1: Background in Hampshire and Wiltshire, GB, 1901-1914: family; grandfather's business as market gardener; education; memory of outbreak of war, 8/1914. Recollections of period working as wagon boy in Burbage, Wiltshire, GB, 1914-1918: description of job delivering food supplies to Tidworth Barracks; type of produce; wages; supplementing income through delivery of potatoes; memory of eating with soldiers in mess; description of pre-war military parade on Salisbury Plain.
REEL 2 Continues: story of cavalry and Field Marshal Sir John French; description of military camps on Salisbury Plain; story of meeting sons of King George V on Salisbury Plain; memories of deserters hiding in delivery wagon; increase of troop activity; memories of troop training on Salisbury Plain including Canadian troops breaking in wild horses; question of security on Salisbury Plain and firing range; relations between civilians and American troops; story of Zeppelin flying over Salisbury Plain; use of camouflage; story of giving water to troops and question of payment.
REEL 3 Continues: role of village committees in enforcing recruitment; story of being given white feather; question of exemptions from military service; reaction to receiving call-up papers, 1918; attitude to enlistment in army; awareness of progress of war; rationing and food supplies; story of running away to Farnborough, 1918; description of duties as wagon boy; daily routine and hours; recreational activities; brewing own beer; question of wages; clothing; story of selling pots and food from barracks; food growing, supply and distribution; weather conditions on Salisbury Plain; memory of Australian army cook.
REEL 4 Continues: amusing story of latrine; reaction to end of war, 11/1918. Post-war life and employment: employment as gateman on railways; story of King's train; effects of war on grandfather's business. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Stovold, Jan R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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