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Description: | British private served as driver with 1st West Lancashire Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps at Gallipoli, Turkey, 4-8/1915; served as mounted orderly to Assistant Director Medical Services at 67th Div HQ on Western Front, 1917-1918
REEL 1: Background in GB: enlistment with West Lancashire Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, 4/1913; mobilisation, 8/1914; requisition of horses; description of voyage to Gallipoli via Egypt, 1915. Aspect of operations as driver with 1st West Lancashire Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps at Gallipoli, Turkey, 4-8/1915; attached to 29th Div; landed at Mudros, Greece; description of landing on X Beach, Gallipoli, Turkey, 25/4/1915; treatment of wounded on X Beach and Gully Beach; use of mules; problem of flies; rations; composition of Bde; story of burial of Turkish soldier; opinion of Ghurkas and Indian troops; problem of lack of reinforcements; types of injuries treated; problem of Turkish snipers; description of treatment of wounds including amputations; memory of mule Jenny; living conditions and problem of flies and lice; comradeship; burial of dead; executions for cowardice; role of naval guns; story of wounded captain; water carst;memory of dead mules; description of being wounded and medical treatment in Malta and GB; storyof white feather posted to Canterbury, GB, 1916; role as batman to Colonel Dewer. Assistant Director Medical Services; story of pony.
REEL 2 Continues: question of medical personnel carrying weapons; drafted to France with 59th Div, 1/1917. Aspects of operations as mounted orderly to Assistant Director Medical Services at 67th Div HQ on Western Front, 1917-1918; billets in chateau; effects of mustard gas; description of German offensive, 3/1918; memory of refugees; billets in pig stye; punishments for French civilian collaborators; amusing story of gaters; memories of Captain Jarvis. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Maddocks, Graham | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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