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Description: | British gunner served with 60th Bde Royal Field Artillery in Gallipoli, Turkey, 1915
REEL 1: Background in London, 1895-1914: family; daily life and living conditions; education; interest in cricket; employment; memory of outbreak of war, 4/Aug/1914; story of enlistment with Royal Field Artillery in Trafalgar Square, 19/Aug.1914; medical. Aspects of training with Royal Field Artillery in GB, 1914-1915: posted to Woolwich Arsenal; accommodation in bell tents; memory of fellow recruits; drill; posted to cavalry barracks, Norwich, 9/1914; opinion of food; sleeping arrangements; description of training as driver; care of horses; gun drill with 18-pounders and role of crew; description of training as gun layer; posted to B Bty 60th Bde Royal Field Artillery at Pembury; description of journey to Devonport.
REEL 2 Continues: description of voyage to Egypt aboard SS Ascania, 3/1915; loading of guns; opinion of accommodation and sleeping arrangements; posted to camp near Alexandria; reason for selection for advanced party; memory of commanding officer. Recollections of operations at Gallipoli, Turkey, 4-8/1915: duties aboard SS Minnetonka at Mudros; loading of ammunition supplies and transfer to trawler; description of landing supplies on beach during Gallipoli landings, 25-27/Apr/1915; daily routine and duties aboard SS Minnetonka; state of health; arrived with working party aboard trawler at Suvla Bay, 6/Aug/1915; description of duties unloading supplies.
REEL 3 Continues: description of conditions on A beach, Suvla Bay; delivery of water supplies; memory of Turkish attack, 9/Aug/1915; role in charge of working party landing supplies on C beach; living conditions and opinion of rations; water ration; problem of lice and flies; sanitary facilities; story of contracting dysentery and treatment in Alexandria, 9/1915; milk diet; posted back to Suvla Bay, 11/1915; question of recognition of Gallipoli campaign. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Page, James | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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