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Description: | British private served with 5th Bn Royal Warwickshire Regt on Western Front and in Italy, 1916-1918
REEL 1: Background in Hay-on-Wye, 1898-1914: memory of outbreak of war, 4/Aug/1914; question of volunteering. Aspects of training with Army Service Corps in GB, 1916: enlisted into Transport Section, Army Service Corps and description of training as driver at Grove Park; reaction to being transferred to 5th Bn Warwickshire Regt. 1916. Recollections of operations with 5th Bn Warwickshire Regt on Western Front and in Italy, 1916-1918: description of journey to France and training in Bull Ring, Rouen, 8/1916; opinion of training; moved to Ypres area and description of operations, 1916-1917, including 3rd Battle of Ypres, 1917; memory of going over the top and trench raids; story of being wounded in leg and treatment in France and GB, 1917; posted to Italy, 1917 and description of operations in area of River Piave and Asiago Plateau; comparison of conditions on Western Front and in Italy; further comments on conditions in Ypres area; memory of large rats; problem of corpses; further memory of training at Bull Ring, Rouen; reaction to news of Armistice, 11/Nov/1918 and celebrations; attitude to killing; problem of obtaining post-war employment. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Williams, Sydney | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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