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Description: | British private served as stretcher bearer with 100th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps on Western Front, 1915-1918
REEL 1: Recollections of operations as private with 100th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps on Western Front, 1915-1918: reason for joining Royal Army Medical Corps and question of age; three months training on Salisbury Plain, posted to France, 11/1915; description of living conditions to Somme, 1916; hot weather; description of medical treatment of casualties; role of Field Ambulance; water ration; smell of bodies; memory of swimming in River Somme; reaction of parents to enlistment; pre-war employment; attitude to army life and discipline; story of inoculation; journey from Southampton to Le Havre; role as stretcher-bearer; conditions in Casualty Clearing Stations; burial of dead; family; memories of Armistice Day celebrations in GB and France, 11/1918.
REEL 2 Continues: story of home leave; description of camp at Boulogne; attitude to fear; treatment of shell shock cases; opinion of officers; story of journey to Somme; comparison of British and German medical services; attitude to treating German wounded; collection and burial of body parts; problem of carrying stretchers through mud; pay; rest periods; memories of friends; civilian attitudes to war; various memories of aerial activity on Western Front; opinion of Germans; memory of seeing tanks. | 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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