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Description: | British NCO served with 10th Bn Lincolnshire Regt (Grimsby Chums) 34th Div on Western Front, 1916-1918
REEL 1: Aspects of training with 10th Bn Lincolnshire Regt in GB, 1914-1915: story of enlisting with 10th Bn and basic training; uniform; reason for Pals Bns being created; posted to France as part of 34th Div, 1/1916. Recollections of operations with 10th Bn Lincolnshire Regt on Western Front, 1916-1918: description of training and preparations for Somme offensive; story of being injured by exploding gun and missing first day of Somme offensive, 1/Jul/1916; duties in line including digging trenches; story of Australian artillery capturing German field gun; posted to Arras sector, 4/1917; description of role in attack on railway cutting near Arras, 17/Apr/1917; memory of German dressing station treating British and German wounded; problem of mines; problem of own artillery shells landing on attacking troops and casualties; description of taking over deserted German trenches; opinion of German trenches and facilities; story of attack on chemical works on River Scarpe; memory of lamb chops being given out to troops.
REEL 2 Continues: description of clearing Germans from wood; memory of hearing Scottish pipers; problem of contracting trench fever and medical treatment; story of being selected for officers training course and posted back to GB, 1918;.reason for enlisting; reaction of parents; attitude to army life and discipline; pre-war apprenticeship; pay; reaction to being under fire and attitude to fear; story of General Williams being killed by sniper; memory of German corpses; description of conditions in trenches; story of contracting trench foot and treatment. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Rowse, W F | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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