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Description: | British NCO served as driver with Motor Transport Section, Army Service Corps on Western Front, 1915-1918
REEL 1: Background in GB, 1914-1915: description of patriotic fervour on outbreak of war, 8/1914; recruitment drives; competition between units; memory of recruitment thermometer on Manchester Town Hall; story of attempting to enlist, 8/1914; question of age and physical fitness; enlisted as driver with Army Service Corps in London; training at Grove Park types of vehicles; drove to Avonmouth; sailed from Southampton to Le Havre; arrived at Rouen, 15/Apr/1915. Aspects of operations as driver with Motor Transport Section, Army Service Corps on Western Front, 1915-1918: posted to 5th Div on Ypres Salient; duties as officer's driver; posted to 7th Div Ammunition Sub-Park, Bethune, 12/1915; lorries and mobile workshops; duties transporting ammunition to front line and building up ammunition dumps; opinion of Thorneycroft lorry; promoted corporal; main route on Corbie-Bray road; use of horse transport; type of ammunition transported; description of trench lines and no man's land; drove at night on elevated road; preparations for Battle of the Somme, 6/1916; attitude to casualties on first day of Battle of the Somme, 1/Jul/1916; weather conditions during winter 1916-1917; transferred to Arras sector and preparations for Arras offensive; promoted sergeant and posted to 1st Army Siege Park, Bethune; opinion of Portuguese troops and Loyal North Lancashire Regt during German offensive, 3/1918; posted to Douai, 10/1918; description of town and company HQ; reaction to news of Armistice, 11/11/1918; returned to GB, 12/1918 and demobilised. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bromley, Tom | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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