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Description: | British officer served with 8th Bn Welch Regt in GB, Gallipoli and Mesopotamia, 1914-1918, railway construction duties
REEL 1 Aspects of background in Oxwich and Oxford University, 1893-1914. Training with Oxford Officers Training Corps, 1914. Commission and training with 8th Bn, Welch Regt in GB, 1914-1915. Aspects of period at Anzac and Suvla, Gallipoli, Turkey, 8/1915-: landing at Anzac, 5/8/1915; initial period in exposed dugouts in Shrapnel Valley; ineffectiveness of naval bombardment on Sari Bair; status as A Company commander; story of warning from Gurkha of white marker attracting snipers fire during night attack through scrub on Sari Bair; wounding of colonel; evacuation on being wounded in right shoulder, 8/8/1915. Voyage aboard Aquitania to GB, 8/1915. Hospitalisation and convalescence in GB, 1915-1916. Rejoining unit in Mesopotamia, Turkey, 1916. Various aspects of service in Mesopotamia, 1916-1918: escorting 60 pdr guns ; railway construction duties; conditions of service; hospitalisation with fever; submarine alarm in Mediterranean during return to demobilisation in GB, 11/1918 REEL 2 Continues: submarine alarm in Mediterranean during return to demobilisation in GB, 11/1918; role escorting 60 pdr guns. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Jenkins, Illtyd Stephen | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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