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Description: | British private served with Royal Army Medical Corps on Western Front, 1916
REEL 1: Background in Hull, Yorks, 1897-1914: enlistment in Hull and question of being underage, 8/1914; reason for joining Royal Army Medical Corps; previous training in First Aid as boy scout; pre-war civilian employment at Reckitts; memory of recruiting centre at City Hall, Hull; billeted at home; memory of trams. Aspects of training with Royal Army Medical Corps in GB, 1914-1916: posted to training camp at Dalton with Territorial Field Ambulance unit; shared camp with 4th East Yorkshire Regt reserves; description of medical training and accommodation; drill; opinion of uniform and boots; memory of British Summer Time being introduced, 1916; hours of duty and morning parade at 9.00am; opinion of food; posted to Redcar for further training and accommodation in tents on racecourse; memory of crossing channel and landing at Boulogne, France, 9/1916; marched to camp at Etaples and first impressions.
REEL 2 Continues: Aspects of operations as private with Royal Army Medical Corps on Western Front, 1916: posted to Dressing Station near front line on Somme sector; role as stretcher-bearer and methods of transporting wounded; description of conditions; opinion of officers; question of discipline; memory of seeing tanks; description of being wounded, 1/Oct/1916; story of lucky friend; question of duty. Aspects of post-war life and employment: discharged from Army due to wound and returned to civilian employment, 1916; memory of air raids on Hull during Second World War; reflections on period of service; amusing nickname for RAMC. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | de Lee, Nigel | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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