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Description: | British sapper served as signaller with Royal Engineers Signals Service at Gallipoli, 1915; served with King's African Rifles in East Africa, 1916-1919
REEL 1 Background and work as Post Office telegraphist in London, 1896-1914. Periods at Bisley, Crowborough and Abbots Langley, with 1/8th Bn London Regt, 8/1914; pre-war training; equipment; movements and billets. Transfer as telegraphist to Royal Engineers Signal Service, 1/1915. Voyage aboard Carou to Lemnos, Greece, 7/1915: ignorance of destination; signal duties; mules; review of Gallipoli campaign; disembarkation exercise at Alexandria, Egypt. Conditions of service during periods at Lemnos and Imbros,7/1915-8/1915. Aspects of period at Suvla, Gallipoli, 8/1915-9/1915: landing and situation; water supply; equipment carried; establishment of headquarters signal office and lines to infantry units; signal equipment; shell fire.
REEL 2 Continues: shell fire on bathing parties; duties sending and receiving signals and use of codes; dugout; evacuation with shrapnel wound in arm, 9/1915; food rations; fly problem; dysentery; situation; unit morale. Evacuation from Malta to GB and subsequent grading as B2, 10/1915. Aspects of period at Suvla, 8/1915-9/1915: conditions of service; miss-setting of arm at beach casualty clearing station. Evacuation aboard Guildford Castle to Malta, 10/1915. Period in Malta, 10/1915: rabbit meat served at hospital; convalescence camp. Aspects of period at Suvla, 8/1915-9/1915: letter contact with GB; pipe smoking; ignorance of progress of war. Hospitalisation, convalescence prior to re-grading as B2 in GB, 1915-1916. Recollections of voyage aboard Balmoral Castle to Capetown, South Africa, 1916. Recollections of service in East Africa, 1916-1919: spine pads.
REEL 3 Continues: prior period at Durban, 1916; posting to General Headquarters signal office at Dar-es-Salaam; communications; review of operations; move to set up wireless station at Port Amelia, Portugese East Africa; difficult journey with mobile wireless station across country to act as signals unit for King's African Rifles; review of operations; move to Lake Tanganyika area; armistice, 11/11/1918; journey to GB and demobilisation, 5/1919; methods of travelling and use of African porters; wireless equipment; water staging posts; story of attack by lions; relationship with African civilians; food rations; prevalence and treatment of malaria; minimal nature of German forces; skirmish nature of operations; signalling duty rota; absence of recreations; unit morale.
REEL 4 Continues: washing in rivers; uniform replacement; water supply; routine during marches through bush; relationship with King's African Rifles; letter and wireless contact with GB; reaction to first news of Armistice, 11/11/1918; return to Dar-es -Salaam; surrender of German force; pay situation and story of refusal of pay issue and hospitality of local civilian during period at Cape Town, 4/1919; attitude to German troops and Von Lettow. Return to GB and demobilisation, 5/1919. | 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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