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Description: | British NCO served with Machine Gun Corps and as tank gunner with No 11 Coy, D Bn Heavy Branch Machine Gun Corps on Western Front, 1915-1917
REEL 1: Aspects of operations with Machine Gun Corp on Western Front, 1915-1916: first impressions of tanks from Bairnsfather cartoon; description of conditions in trenches; story of officer and shell; description of conditions in trenches at Neuve Chapelle, France; role of Machine Gun Bty in support of advancing troops; transferred to No 11 Coy, D Bn Heavy Branch Machine Gun Corps, 1916. Aspects of operations with No 11 Coy, D Bn Heavy Branch Machine Gun Corps on Western Front, 1916-1917: description of training as port gunner on tank; reason for use of naval terminology; training of tank drivers; tank crew and roles; question of security; opinion of General Ellis; attitude to use of tanks; opinion of effectiveness of machine guns against men and horses; morale; description of Mk IV tank; gears; manoeuvrability; steering; story of driving tank off battlefield; speed; amusing story of aviation fuel in tank; comparison of male and female tanks and armaments; opinion of Vickers machine gun; ammunition; protective clothing; strength of armour; visibility from tank; problem of heat and noise in tank; effectiveness of tank armour; problem of bullets ricocheting in tank; question of communication with other tanks; description of artillery barrage at Bullecourt; wounded and returned to GB, 1917; employed in tank workshop, Lulworth, Dorset, 1917-1918; description of entry and exit in tank and firing positions; method of rescuing ditched tank. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hayward, Ernie | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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