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Description: | British officer served as Medical Officer with Indian Medical Service attached to 33rd Cavalry Regt in India and Mesopotamia, 1914-1918
REEL 1: Background in India and Scotland, GB, 1887-1914: reason for enlisting with Indian Medical Service at outbreak of war, 8/1914; family background in India and Scotland; studied medicine at Aberdeen University. Recollections of operations as Medical Officer with Indian Medical Service attached to 33rd Cavalry Regt in India and Mesopotamia, 1914-1918: description of voyage aboard transport ship to India; description of voyage aboard transport ship to Basra, Mesopotamia; story of ships crashing into each other in Shatt al-Arab River; disembarked at Basra; description of terrain and climate; story of sharks; description of engagement with Turkish forces; posted to camp in desert; problem of Arab snipers at night; accommodation in trenches covered by tents; story of burying dead camel; description of engagement with Turkish forces in desert including hand-to- hand fighting; story of rifle exploding in face and nature of wounds; moved to new camp in desert; terrain; problem of water supplies; description of engagement between 33rd Cavalry Regt and Arab cavalry.
REEL 2 Continues: shooting of wounded horses; casualties; evacuation of sick and wounded to Basra by barges; problem of heavy rain; use of dismounted cavalry as infantry; establishment of medical research laboratory under Col Christophers; staff and specialisms; story of Sikhs and opium; description of visit to isolation camp in Basra; function of laboratory including research into malaria among local Arab population; location of laboratory aboard ship; story of cook and opium; story of conspiracy among Indian workforce; amusing story of visiting Gurkhas in hospital; problem of lack of medical supplies; amusing story of entomologist and teeth; amusing story of brothel. | 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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