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Description: | British trooper served with A Sqdn, 1/1st Derbyshire Yeomanry in Egypt, Gallipoli and Salonika, 1915-1919
REEL 1: Background in GB, 1914: story of volunteering during meeting in Elvaston School, Derbyshire, 8/1914; enlisted with Sherwood Foresters in Derby; reaction of brother; story of transferring to Col Winterbottom’s Derbyshire Yeomanry, 28/Oct/1914. Aspects of training with Derbyshire Yeomanry in GB, 1914-1915: posted to A Sqdn, 1/1st Derbyshire Yeomanry, Oct/1914; moved to Cromer, 1915; appointed batman to sergeant-major of A Sqdn; description of voyage aboard SS Saturn to Egypt, 4/1915. Aspects of operations with A Sqdn, 1/1st Derbyshire Yeomanry in Egypt, 4/1915-1/1917: rode to camp at Sidi Bish; problem of lack of water; story of buying oranges; posted to Abbasia barracks, Cairo; further training; converted to infantry, 8/1915; sailed aboard SS Haverford to Gallipoli, Turkey, 8/1915. Aspects of operations with 1/1st Derbyshire Yeomanry in Gallipoli, Turkey, 8-12/1915: shelled by Turkish batteries on shore; transferred to picket boats and landed at Suvla Bay; problem of digging in due to rocky terrain; took cover under sage bushes; assembled under cliffs at Lala Baba; description of scaling cliffs; duties as servant to Brig-Gen Kenna VC; troops ordered to maintain five yard distance to minimise casualties; story of corporal cut in half by shell; carried Brig-Gen Kenna’s equipment; description of conditions in Chocolate Hill sector; consumed iron rations; story of assisting soldier after hand severed by shell splinter; story of losing contact with unit; duties digging communication trenches; story of death of Brig-Gen Kenna, 30/Aug/1915; duties as batman to orderly officer at London Mounted Bde HQ; rations; story of constructing oven with cook; problem of dysentery; story of inadvertently giving information to German spy in trenches. Aspects of period in Egypt, 1915: description of journey to hospital in Cairo; problem of shell fragment in leg; treatment and convalescence; memories of French nurse; returned to barracks at Abbasia; story of arrival of Major Winterbottom; duties as servant including care of pet dog Tickle.
REEL 2 Continues: Aspects of operations with 1/1st Derbyshire Yeomanry in Salonika, Greece, 1/1916-1/1919: description of voyage to Salonika; amusing story of pet dog Tickle; home leave; problem of contracting malaria; description of terrain in Kopaki sector; squadron exercises; story of death of Major Winterbottom; reaction to surrender of Bulgarians, 9/1918; proceeded to 71 Kilo base camp; issued with winter equipment for possible deployment to Russia; problem of heavy rain; duties as mess orderly for officers’ squadron; story of receiving news of Armistice on Western Front on birthday, 11/Nov/1918; recurrence of malaria and treatment; story of shooting Major Winterbottom’s horse Crippen; remained in hospital until 1/1919; question of returning to unit; description of journey back to GB via Italy and France, 1919; treatment at hospital in France for malaria and pneumonia; problem of loss of weight; story of visit from parents. Aspects of period in GB, 1919: further treatment at Netley Hospital, Southampton until June1919; story of visit by Lady Winterbottom; story of visit to nurse in Scotland; recurrence of malaria and pneumonia; story of brother’s visit to hospital. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Briggs, Tony | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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