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Description: | British private served with 10th Bn Hampshire Regt in Ireland and Gallipoli, 1914-1918
REEL 1 Background to failure of initial attempts to join up underage prior to enlistment with 10th Bn Hampshire Regt at Winchester, 1/1915. Training at Mullingar, Curragh and Basingstoke, 1/1915-7/1915. Kitting out and voyage to Mudros, Lemnos, 7/1915. Period at Lemnos, 7/1915-8/1915. Various aspects of period at Suvla, 8/1915: barbed wire in water on landing, 6/8/1915; initial advance; water shortage; absence of washing; food rations; initial advance and use of Turkish trenches; dugouts; situation, nature of fighting and question of Gallipoli strategy; dysentery problem and medical situation; story of being wounded in hip and groin by sniper and evacuation under fire by stretcher to beach, 15/8/1915. Evacuation on hospital ship to GB, 16/8/1915-30/8/1915: reactions to Blighty wound; near accident whilst being loaded aboard on stretcher; problems due to bladder wound; removal of bullet; special diet for dysentery; weight loss. Period in hospital and discharge as unfit, 9/1915-7/1916: learning to walk again.
REEL 2 Continues: story of medical board and subsequent medical treatment to repair bladder damage; reactions to Blighty wound. | 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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