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Description: | British NCO served with 1st Bn Rifle Brigade on Western Front, 1916-1918
REEL 1: Story of enlistment in Neath, South Wales, 9/1914; reaction to outbreak of war and attitude to Germans; reaction of family to enlistment; recruitment process; posted to Winchester depot; accommodation; nature of basic training. Aspects of training with 13th Bn Rifle Bde in GB, 1914-1915: posted to camp at Luggeshall on Salisbury Plain; description of training; attitude to rank of sergeant; posted to 1st Bn Rifle Bde and question of regulars; story of Lee Enfield workers. Recollections of operations with 1st Bn Rifle Bde on Western Front, 1916-1918: first experience of being under fire at Arras, France, 1916; story of being wounded in foot at Estree, 1/Nov/1918; medical treatment.
REEL 2 Continues: further treatment in hospitals at Rouen and Bath, GB. 11/1918; problem of lice; problem of mud in trenches; opinion of German dugouts; story of Canadian troops on Arras-Cambrai road; description of going over the top and advance across No Man's Land behind own artillery barrage; problem of German machine gun fire; attitude to duty on patrols; question of 'peaceful penetration' and use of phosphorus shells; attitude to use of gas and effects.
REEL 3 Continues: casualties in 1st Bn; relationship with officers; opinion of senior commanders; opinion of German troops; story of German shot while surrendering at Estree, 1918; question of fraternization with Germans; attitude to shell shock cases; relations with French civilians; air attacks; memory of celebrating Armistice in Bath Hospital, 11/11/1918. Aspects of service as officer in Neath Home Guard, 1939-1945: composition of platoons; description of training; standard of training and weaponry. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | IWM | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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