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Description: | British private served with 75th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps on Western Front, 1915-1918; sapper served with Royal Engineers on Western Front, 1918
REEL 1: Aspects of training with Royal Army Medical Corps in GB, 1914: story of joining Royal Army Medical Corps in Douglas, Isle of Man, 24/Aug/1914; enlistment procedure; medical; description of journey to Aldershot; conditions in tented camp; daily routine; opinion of food; further training on Salisbury Plain, 9-12./1914; problem of bad weather and contracting pneumonia; description of journey to France, 9/1915. Recollections of operations with Royal Army Medical Corps on Western Front, 1915-1918: arrived Boulogne; journey by cattle truck to Amiens; moved into line in Armentieres sector; description of dressing station in brewery; daily routine and duties; move to Somme sector, 7/1916; description of conditions and treatment of casualties in dressing station near Thiepval; movement of wounded; problem of sleeping; opinion of stretcher bearers; billets; role assisting in operating theatre; removal of dead into dugout; story of sanitary section being shelled and casualties; shell shock cases; story of setting up first aid post in abandoned German position; posted to Messines Ridge, 7/1917; description of being blown up by shell and losing voice due to shock; problem with nerves; posted to Ypres area, Belgium; story of taking trade test for Royal Flying Corps; transferred to Royal Engineers, 1918; description of camp an basic training including building pontoon bridges over River Seine; story of unsuccessful attempt to join Royal Flying Corps.
REEL 2 Continues: drafted to 17th Div; duties as stretcher bearer; story of building bridge across River Selle under heavy fire; problem of water shortage; sleeping arrangements; memory of Mormal Forest; billets; question of German atrocities against French civilians; story of receiving news of Armistice while building bridge. 11/Nov/1918; story of men killed by grenade after Armistice; problem of cold weather and contracting influenza; description of medical treatment; hernia operation; memory of Christmas, 1918; death of father; army number.
REEL 3 Continues: further comments on enlistment and reaction of parents, 1914; amusing story of corsets; reaction to dead and wounded; question of identifying first aid post with lamps and flags; recreational activities; amusing memories of mules in GB and France; attitude to treatment of German wounded; memory of mines exploding on Messines Ridge; memory of chaplain; problem of lice; baths; reads poem about lice. | 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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