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Description: | British NCO served with 1/5th Bn Lancashire Fusiliers in GB, Egypt and Gallipoli, 1910-1916
REEL 1: Various aspects of background in Bury, 1896-1914: Boys Brigade activities; recruitment as band boy with 1/5th Bn Lancashire Fusiliers, 1910. Call up, periods at Turton Camp and Abbas Hilma Barracks, Cairo, 8/1914-5/1915. Various aspects of period at Helles, Gallipoli, 5/1915-1915: landing under fire at W Beach, 6/5/1915; move inland; losing water bottle; receiving news of death of father and rejection of offer of leave; duties as runner; relieving 29th Div; nature of fighting; casualties during attack towards Krithia, 4/6/1915; story of being isolated in captured Turkish trench, death of friend whilst going out to fetch water, later success in getting back to trench with water and getting biscuits from corpses, ca 6/1915. State of health on evacuation to Egypt, 1/1916
REEL 2 Periods in hospital and convalescent camp in Egypt, 1/1916: serious accident to knee on tram; sympathetic nurses. Evacuation and successful treatment in GB, 1916. Story of visits by dead officer's parents, 1916. Medical board and demobilisation as unfit for further service, 10/1916: inadequate disability pension; parents' reaction on return home; story of earlier having being accidentally posted missing and sings, 'Wandering Boy'. Story of temporary blindness and later permanent effects caused by shell concussion at Gallipoli, 1915. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Stanway, John Stephen | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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