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Description: | British NCO served as signaller with 1st Bn Devonshire Regt on Western Front, 1914-1918
REEL 1: Recollections of operations as signaller with 1st Bn Devonshire Regt on Western Front, 1914-1918: joined army in 1911; posted to 1st Bn Devonshire Regt on River Aisne, France, 8/1914; description of trenches; moved to Ypres area, 12/1914; memory of refugees on road; story of Christmas truce and fraternisation with Germans, 1914; description of Ypres; description of role in operations at Hill 60 and Neuve Chappelle, 1915; memory of gas attack; moved to Somme area, France, 1916; memory of seeing first tanks; position of 1st Bn in line; story of training and role as anti-gas instructor; posted to Italy for six months as anti-gas instructor; memory of trips to Rome and Milan; returned to GB , 2/1919; story of laying duckboards and problem of mud and water; reason for training as signaller and skill as marksman; importance of comradeship; description of retreat from Mons, 1914; reaction to death of friend.
REEL 2 Continues: opinion of Gurkhas; memories of food and billets in Italy; further comments on Hill 60 and German gas attack; problem of lice in uniform; story of seven days leave in France; memories of home leave; opinion of high command and strategy; amusing story of brigadier; rum ration; opinion of rations; further comments on Christmas truce, 1914. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Chambers, Keith | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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