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Description: | British NCO served with 7th and 2nd Bns East Lancashire Regt on Western Front, 1917-1918
REEL 1: Background in Blackburn, GB, 1899-1914: family life and living conditions; death of father, 1911; education; sporting activities; part-time employment in cotton mill; working conditions; reaction to outbreak of war, 8/1914; enlisted with East Lancashire Regt in Blackburn, 2/1916; question of age; medical; issued with uniform; posted to 1/4th Bn East Lancashire Regt in Southport. Aspects of training with 1/4th Bn East Lancashire Regt in GB, 1917: opinion of billets; amusing story of landlady; woken by whistle and paraded in street; drill; route marches; recreational activities; relations with other recruits; question of bullying; opinion of NCOs.
REEL 2 Continues: opinion of officers; posted to Codford camp; accommodation in huts; rifle and bayonet training; Mills bombs; trench digging; tactical exercises; gas drill; description of training in scouting, observing and sniping (SOS); promoted corporal; posted to France, 1917. Aspects of operations as NCO with 7th Bn East Lancashire Regt on Western Front, 1917-1918: description of mines exploding on Messines Ridge and advance over no man's land, 7/Jun/1917; story of shooting German; wounded in shoulder and sheltered in shell hole; taken on stretcher to Canadian Casualty Clearing Station; description of wound and medical treatment; returned to GB for further operations and convalescence; posted to Redcar.
REEL 3 Continues: billets; story of refusing to polish buttons and punishment; posted to 2nd Bn East Lancashire Regt, 1918. Aspects of operations as NCO with 2nd Bn East Lancashire Regt on Western Front, 1918: description of retreat following German offensive, 3/1918; role as sniper; signed on for further 12 months after Armistice, 11/1918; posted to Cork, Ireland; reason for leaving army,1919. Post-war life and employment. | 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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