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Description: | British civilian schoolchild in London, 1914-1915; worked as boy gauger at Woolwich Arsenal, London, 1915; worked as special messenger for Lloyds in GB, 1915-1917; worked at South London Engineering Company, 1917-1918
REEL 1 Background in London, 1901-1914: family; education; family home. Aspects of period as schoolchild living in London, 1914-1915: forming of boy's army; collecting money for Prince of Wales Fund; first employment after leaving school with Orange Press.
REEL 2 Continues: Aspects of period as boy gauger at Woolwich Arsenal, 1915: work gauging cartridges; pay and working hours; types of food eaten; supplies of coal; start of Zeppelin raids. Recollections of period as special messenger with Lloyds Corporation at Royal Exchange in London, 1915-1917: obtaining employment; uniform worn; delivering confidential dispatches to government offices; family income.
REEL 3 Continues: Zeppelin raids and bomb damage; food prices; visiting cinema and theatres; wartime newsreels and films; contact with Belgian refugees; daily routine for messenger boys; delivering message to Rothschild and tip he received.
REEL 4 Continues: victimisation of German tradesmen by civilian populace; family's military service; casualties in his area; rendering of popular war songs and changing of the words to fit wartime situation; contact with Australian and American personnel. Aspects of period as worker with South London Engineering Company in London, 1917-1918: work making detonators and tools.
REEL 5 Continues: blacking out of lamps; singing and dancing outside public houses; infestation of family home with insects; abortive attempt to join army, 1915; character of German air raids; opinion of bread.
REEL 6 Continues: work trimming crankshafts for Clama Engineering after end of war; celebrations in Trafalgar Square on Armistice Day, 11/11/1918; dancing craze after end of First World War; glass grinding job, 1918; sight of Zeppelin being shot down. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Brooks, Margaret | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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