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Description: | British marine served with 7th Bn Royal Marine Light Infantry and Hood Bn Royal Naval Division on Western Front, 1917-1918
REEL 1: Background in Barnstable, GB: reason for enlistment; employment on railway; question of exemption from military service and wearing khaki armband with red crown; story of enlistment with 7th Bn Royal Marine Light Infantry in Exeter, 1917. Aspects of operations with 7th Bn Royal Marine Light Infantry and Hood Bn Royal Naval Div on Western Front, 1917-1918: journey to France; posted to Ypres front, Belgium; head wound; transferred to Hood Bn Royal Naval Div; problem of mud; and breaking leg; Royal Marine uniform; transferred to Somme area, France; description conditions and memories of going over the top; Cambrai; story of capturing German tanks; attitude to death and survival; loss of friends; rest periods; opinion of rations; story of killing Belgian civilian; relations with French and Belgian civilians; story of being wounded in hand by shrapnel, 11/1918; memory of drinking dandelion beer in civilian house; reaction to Armistice, 11/1918; amusing story of walnut tree.
REEL 2 Continues: problem of lice; officers' uniforms; amusing story of hospital sister; service number; opinion of officers; attitude of civilians in GB to war; attitude to army discipline; question of fear; story of gypsy; religious beliefs; family; memory of limber wagons with divisional mark; attitude to discipline in Royal Marines; description of training. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Clements, R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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