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Description: | British private served with 11th Bn Royal Fusiliers on Western Front, 1916-1917; served as officer with 4th Bn East Lancashire Regt in GB, 1917-1918
REEL 1: Aspect of training with Royal Fusiliers in GB, 1915-1916: enlistment; role as instructor on rifle range. Recollections of operations as private with 11th Bn Royal Fusiliers on Western Front, 1916-1917: arrival at Etaples, France and nature of training; posted to 11th Bn Royal Fusiliers and journey to front line by cattle trucks; duties with ration and ammunition parties; description of trenches; memory of shaking dead German's hand; story of being buried in trench; sanitary facilities; opinion of rations; posted for special training prior to assault on Thiepval, 8/1916; reason for attack on Thiepval and planning; story of deserter; reaction to address by Divisional Commander; sings song 'I Want To Go Home'; description of attack at Thiepval, 26/Sep/1916; equipment and kit; use of yellow strips on back for aerial identification; description of crossing No Man's Land and occupying German trenches; nature of German opposition and hand to hand fighting; role in clearing trenches and dugouts; question of shooting German POWs; reinforcement of trenches.
REEL 2 Continues: end of operation and return to own lines; nature of duties as company runner including guiding officers at night; description of further attack on German trenches; memory of outdoor showers and problem of lice in uniform; memory of cold weather, 1917; duties detonating Mills bombs at ammunition dump; recommended for commission and posted to Officers' Training camp, Lichfield, GB, 10/1917. Period as officer with 4th Bn East Lancashire Regt, Scarborough; nature of duties training recruits; story of fainting on parade and diagnosis of heart condition; discharged from army on medical grounds, 4/1918. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Emmett, R G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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