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Description: | German NCO served with 5th Telegraph Bn Signal Service in Germany, 1914-1915; served as medical orderly with Reserve Garde Field Hospital on Eastern Front, 1915-1916; served as medical orderly attached to German Army Signals Corps on Eastern Front, 1916-1919
REEL 1: Background in Frankfurt and Berlin, Germany, 1895-1914: family; education and subjects studied including history; sporting and musical activities; daily timetable; story of breaking arm and further musical activities; attitude to school life and question of anti-Semitism; daily life and living conditions; religious beliefs.
REEL 2 Continues: question of anti-Semitism and Jewish community in Frankfurt; moved to Berlin, 1914; awareness of international situation; father's business and question of career; reason for training as doctor. Aspects of period as medical student at Munich University, 1914: description of classes; membership of student's fencing club; description of fencing equipment and training; question of injuries.
REEL 3 Continues: awareness of international situation and memory of outbreak of war, 8/1914; question of patriotism and attitude to Austrians; question of anti-British feeling; description of situation in Berlin; question of military service and reason for volunteering; political beliefs. Aspects of training with 5th Telegraph Bn Signal Service in Germany, 1914-1915: story of enlistment; organisation of Bn and role looking after horses; description of uniform; accommodation and sleeping arrangements in barracks; opinion of food and question of weight loss; daily routine; PT: drill; pistol shooting.
REEL 4 Continues: learning to ride and groom horses; story of sergeant; opinion of NCOs and question of anti-Semitism; recreational activities; attitude to alcohol; relations with other recruits; attitude to army life and discipline; posted to 2nd Military Hospital in Berlin for further medical training, 1914; story of syphilis patient; story of Russian patient; returned to 5th Telegraph Bn and nature of medical duties; story of meningitis; story of being posted to Potsdam, 6/1915; question of fitness for active service; posted to Reserve Garde Field Hospital on Eastern Front, 7/1915.
REEL 5 Continues: Recollections of operations as medical orderly with Reserve Garde Field Hospital on Eastern Front, 1915-1916: location in Poland and role of field hospital; organisation and medical staff; accommodation; memory of administering morphine injections to wounded; care of wounded; use of saline drips; story of padre; problem of dysentery and treatment; description of sleeping arrangements and rations including horse and cat meat; daily routine and nature of duties; operations; medical facilities; question of disinfecting and bandaging wounds; use of carts to transport wounded; relations with local civilians; description of role in treating patients with infectious diseases at field hospital in Lithuania, 10/1915; problem of lice; attitude to role as medical orderly; problem contracting jaundice; question of anti-Semitism.
REEL 6 Continues: nature of cases; story of illness and leave in Berlin, 7/1916. Recollections of operations as medical orderly with Army Signals Corps on Eastern Front, 1916-1918: posted to field hospital in Vilia, Poland; memory of Jewish family; messing arrangements; role in venereal disease (VD) inspections; posted to Brest-Litovsk, Russia and nature of duties; question of transportation; problem of food shortages; daily routine visiting troops; problem of lack of doctors; attitude to Russian Revolution; posted to 628 Signals Coy in Galicia, 12/1917; nature of duties; accommodation; moved into barracks in Kiev, Ukraine; memory of Ukranian troops; reason for learning Russian; story of Russian family.
REEL 7 Continues: relations with Russian civilians; posted to Crimea and role of 628 Coy, 1918; accommodation; relations with civilians; story of being awarded Iron Cross; promotion to sergeant and role buying food from market; problem of contracting influenza; situation in Berlin, 10/1918; story of typewriter; reaction to news of Armistice and question of refusing to obey orders, 11/1918; memory of Allied troops in Sevastapol; story of selling horses; pay; involvement with German army soviet in Nikoleiv, Russia, 3/1919; political beliefs and meetings; organisation of food supplies.
REEL 8 Continues: description of journey back to Germany, 4/1919; demobilisation and return to civilian life. Aspects of post-war life and employment: political situation in Germany; return to medical studies and qualification as doctor, 1923; attitude to rise of Nazism and growing anti-Semitism; story of emigration to GB, 1933. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hart, Peter M | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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