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Description: | British stretcher bearer served with 87th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps at Gallipoli, 1915
REEL 1 Recruitment as stretcher bearer to West Lancashire later 87th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps at Tramway Road Recruiting Office, Liverpool, 8/1914. Aspects of training at Croxteth Park, Sevenoaks, Canterbury and Rugby, 8/1914-3/1915: reactions to army lifestyle and discipline; basic and medical training; movements and billets; relationships with NCOs and officers; food ration. Recollections of voyage on Dongola to Imbros, 3/1915: question of destination; conditions aboard; route; period at Mudros Harbour. Recollections of landing and initial period at X Beach, Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey, 25/4/1915-26/4/1915: barge landing under shrapnel fire; lack of barges to ferry casualties to hospital ship; situation.
REEL 2 Continues: situation; trips to bring wounded back to beach at night; inadequate medical provision for wounded on beach exacerbated by cold; move to Gully Beach. Aspects of period based at Gully Beach, 4/1915-8/1915: walking through Krithia with stretcher team, 26/4/1915; terrain; carrying casualties from advanced post in Gully Ravine to beach hospital; water supply; simple first aid given at advanced post; stretcher teams; later use of ambulances in Gully Ravine; story of NCO driven insane; conditions of service in beach area.
REEL 3 Continues: conditions of service in beach area; personal morale. Various aspect of service at Suvla Bay, 8/1915-9/1915: situation; crossing Salt Lake to establish post on Chocolate Hill; evacuation with dysentery and typhoid. Membership of Gallipoli Association. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Tomkinson, Cecil Rupert | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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