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Description: | British trooper served with 1st Life Guards in GB, South Africa and on Western Front, 1898-1918
REEL 1: Background in GB: family; reason for joining Life Guards, 1898; medical; pay; posted to Regent's Park Barracks, Albany Street, London; medical. Aspects of period as trooper with 1st Life Guards in GB, 1898-1899: posted to C Sqdn; issued with kit and uniform; duties cleaning out stables and care of horses; messing arrangements; foot drill and riding training; passed out as 1st Class Recruit; posted to Windsor Castle; guard duties for Queen Victoria; memory of outbreak of Boer War, 1899; story of inspection and speech by Queen Victoria; presented with tin of tobacco, bible and pipe; sailed aboard troopship to South Africa from Southampton, 11/1899; disembarked Table Bay, Christmas Day, 1899. Aspects of operations as trooper with 1st Life Guards in South Africa, 1899-1900: marched to camp Maitland; moved up country; memory of seeing Kronje and other Boer POWs; night sentry duty; story of being stung in arm by scorpion; problem of arm swelling up and medical treatment; summary of movements in South Africa; problem of Boer snipers and artillery; use of canoe bridges to cross rivers; contracted enteric fever; medical treatment at base hospital and in GB; further period of service in South Africa; memory of death of Queen Victoria, 1/1901. Aspects of period as trooper with 1st Life Guards in GB, 1901-1914: role with advanced guard for funeral of Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle, 1/1901; problem with horses; led procession into Windsor Castle; sentry duty guarding Queen's body in chapel; role with guard of honour for burial of Queen in Frogmore mausoleum; transferred to Knightsbridge Barracks, London; story of refusing promotion; returned to Windsor Castle and duties as officers' servant; memory of outbreak of war, 8/1914; marched to Southampton and sailed to Le Havre, France. Aspects of operations as trooper with 1st Life Guards on Western Front and in GB, 1914-1919: summary of movements and operations on Western Front, 1914-1918; posted to dispersal camp in Wimbledon; duties in armourer's stores; posted to Knightsbridge Barracks, London.
REEL 2 Continues: leave; duties as officer's groom; memories of Victory March in London, 1919. Story of post-war service with Corps of Commissionaires; medals. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Lappage, George | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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