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Description: | British officer served with 2/28th Bn (Artists' Rifles) London Regt in GB and on Western Front, 1915; served with 12th Bn London Regt on Western Front, 1915-1916; served as observer with Royal Flying Corps on Western Front, 1916-1918
REEL 1: Background in Shropshire and Wales; family; education; memory of Boer War; reaction to outbreak of war, 8/1914; story of enlisting with 2/28th Bn London Regt (Artists' Rifles) and being commissioned; description of training in Romford, Essex. Recollections of operations with 12th Bn London Regt and Royal Flying Corps on Western Front, 1915-1918: description of operations in Villers-Bretonneux area, 1915-1916; explanation of term 'peacetime trenches'; role in command of platoon; casualties; description of conditions in trenches and reason for transferring to Royal Flying Corps, 1916; description of training as observer at Brooklands, GB, including Morse code and artillery observation; story of crashing in RE 8 plane and description of injuries, 1918; comments on nature of air operations during war; method of dropping bombs from plane; question of syncronisation of Vickers machine gun; opinion of Sopwith Pup; comparison of service in 12th Bn London Regt and Royal Flying Corps. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Smith, Lyn E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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