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Description: | British NCO served with 3rd (Auckland Coy) Auckland Regt in New Zealand, and Egypt, 1914-1915; served as interpreter with headquarters of New Zealand Bde in Egypt and Gallipoli. 1915; served as officer with 4th (Hauraki) Coy, Auckland Regt and 3rd (Auckland Coy) Auckland Regt at Gallipoli, 1915
REEL 1 Background in GB and New Zealand, 1892-1914. Ruse to enlist as cook in 3rd Auckland Coy, Auckland Bn at Auckland, 12/8/1914. Recollections of period in camp at Auckland, 8/1914-9/1914: duties as cook; promotion to lance corporal; conditions of service; relationships with NCOs and officers. Recollections of voyage aboard SS Waimaru to Alexandria, Egypt, 9/1914-12/1914: initial sailing and return due to fear of German East Asiatic Sqdn; escort; conditions; absence of escort during mission to sink Emeden; use of Arabic in assisting disembarkation, 3/12/1914. Recollections of period at Zeitoun Camp, 12/1914-4/1915: attack of dysentery; water discipline during route march; appointment as Bde headquarters interpreter and mounted policeman.
REEL 2 Continues: Aspects of voyage aboard SS Waimaru, 9/1914-12/1915: origins of ANZAC trops; officer's loss of nerve; story of rifle inspection; quality of troops; conditions. Continues recollections of period at Zeitoun Camp, 12/1914-4/1915: duties as Bde interpreter and mounted policeman; movements during Turkish attack on Suez Canal, 2/1915. Voyage on Greek tramp steamer to Mudros, Lemnos, Greece, 4/1915. Question of VD amongst ANZAC troops.
REEL 3 Continues: Remaining aboard ship to look after horses and view of landing at Anzac, Gallipoli, Turkey, 25/4/1915. Landing at Anzac and conditions on beach, 5/1915. Move to rejoin Bde HQ and landing at V Beach, Helles, 9/5/1915. Recollections of period at Helles, 5/1915: story illustrating morale of Other Ranks of 29th Div; acting as battlefield police; situation following Battle of Daisy Patch, 9/5/1915; conditions of service; return to Anzac, 5/1915. Recollections of period at Anzac, 5/1915-6/1915: commission as officer in 4th (Hauraki) Coy, Auckland Regt.
REEL 4 Continues: conditions of service; lice problem; night patrol; concealment of officers' isignia; communion service during journey up to Quinn's Post; situation. Recollections of attack by 3rd (Auckland) Coy, Auckland Regt from Quinn's Post, 7/6/1915: assignment to coy to lead attack as 'expendable' officer; prior naval bombardment; grenade leg wound in No Man's Land and return to front line; evacuation by friend to beach. Recollections of evacuation by hospital ship to Mudros, 7/6/1915: embarking by crane; leg amputation; conditions; visit by Birdwood; opinion of Birdwood and Godley.
REEL 5 Continues: Treatment at Blue Sisters Hospital, Malta, 6/1916. Troopship voyage to GB, 6/1915. Recollections of convalescence in GB, 1915: horse riding; reaction to loss of leg. Question of medical services at Gallipoli, 1915. Recollections of attack from Quinn's Post, 7/6/1915: personal morale; importance of position; nature of fighting. Later career in Samoa, Fiji and Nigeria, 1916-1939: refusal of decorations; positive attitude towards loss of leg; use of influence to gain position in colonial administration. Opinion of Turks, 29th Div and Royal Navy at Gallipoli, 1915. Return to New Zealand, 1916.
REEL 6 Continues: Various aspects of service at Gallipoli, 4/1915-6/1915: role of Royal Navy; conditions of service; remaining aboard ship to look after horses, 25/4/1915; relationship with Other Ranks and officers; pride in New Zealand Army status; brothers' war service. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Smith, Lyn E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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