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Description: | British guardsman served with 1st Bn Grenadier Guards in GB and on Western Front, 1911-1918; present during Christmas truce, 12/1914
REEL 1: Recollections of operations as guardsman with 1st Bn Grenadier Guards in GB and on Western Front, 1911-1918: description of Christmas truce, 12/1914; fraternisation with Germans and memory of Germans singing; meeting with Germans in No Man's Land; story of German soldier; story of Scots Guards lighting bonfire in No Man's Land; memory of Christmas dinner and presence of Prince of Wales; attitude of senior commanders to truce; ordered to cease fraternisation and end truce; story of enlistment with Grenadier Guards in Essex 1911; training at Caterham Guards Depot and Chelsea Barracks; question of height; duties with King's Guard in GB; memories of Prince of Wales; posted to France with 20th Div, 9/1914; summary of operations on Western Front; story of Winston Churchill; most casualties caused by artillery fire; question of accuracy of British rifle fire; skill as marksman; memories of period in Cologne as part of Army of Occupation, 1918; story of being wounded on Somme 8/1918; awarded Military Medal; relations between Grenadier and Coldstream Gds. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Wilson (Mr) | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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