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Description: | British private served with 7th Bn Border Regt on Western Front, 1917-1918; present at Etaples Mutiny, 9/1917
REEL 1: Background in Langworth, Cumberland: family; education; employment as porter and clerk with Midland Railway; enlisted with 3rd Bn Border Regt, 1916; training in GB; posted to France, 1917. Aspects of period at Etaples Infantry Base Depot, France, 9/1917: description of conditions in camp; problem of contracting scabies and hospital treatment; story of Scottish soldier shot by Military Police and ensuing riots; description of Etaples; training regime in Bull Ring; relations with NCOs and Military Police; reason for rioting; posted to 1/1st Westmoreland and Cumberland Yeomanry and absorbed into 7th Bn Border Regt, 9/1917; relations with officers; billets in barn; description of living conditions in Busigny sector, France; moved to front line trenches at Poelcappelle, Belgium; description of operations on 6/Oct/1918; problem of heavy rain; casualties including Lt Parker killed by sniper; description of crossing No Man's Land under fire; amusing story of drinking tea with colonel; water carts.
REEL 2 Continues: use of guide tapes and communications with other units; marched to Somme area, France; description of living conditions in Havrincourt sector; problem of poor roads; story of Royal Engineers destroying derelict tank; description of listening post in shell hole; problem of German patrols and flares; description of area around St Quentin Canal and Ancre Valley; confusion between units; description of operations along Albert-Bapaume road and Aveluy Wood sector; story of taking German prisoners; memory of thunderstorm; death of Cpt Saunders on Vimy Ridge; story of German officers having breakfast in Mormal Forest; memory of Armistice while on leave in GB, 11/1918; description of Stokes mortar; description of duties as clerk in demobilisation office, Calais, 1918-1919. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Little, Hugh | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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