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Description: | British seaman served with Drake Bn Royal Naval Division in GB and Gallipoli, 1915; officer served as observer with 218 Sqdn Royal Flying Corps on Western Front, 1917-1918; internment in Netherlands, 1918; served with 17 Sqdn RAF in Turkey, 1919; served with 30 Sqdn RAF in Iraq, 1920-1921
REEL 1 Background in London, GB, 1900-1915. Reaction to outbreak of war, 4/8/1914. Background to recruitment underage into Royal Naval Div, 1915. Various aspects of period at Crystal Palace and Blandford Camp, 1915. Various aspects of period at Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey, 1915: voyage out and landing at V Beach; move inland and digging in; breakfast disrupted by shell; move into front line; corpses.
REEL 2 Continues: conditions of service; water shortages; lice problem; working party digging trenches; situation; evacuation with dysentery. Story of failed torpedo attack on Mauretania during voyage back to GB, 1915. Period in hospital, 1915-1916. Training as observer officer on transfer to Royal Flying Corps at St Leonards, 1917.
REEL 3 Continues training as observer at St Leonards, 1917. Aspects of period with 218 Sqdn, RFC in France, 1917-1918: DH9s flown; role of observer during bombing raids on German Channel ports and method of releasing bombs; anti aircraft fire; story of being hit by anti-aircraft fire during raid over Zeebrugge and crash landing near Flushing, Netherlands, 31/7/1918. Period of internment at The Hague, 1918: background to signing parole and minimal conditions imposed; story of being allowed home on leave and armistice, 11/11/1918. Period with 17th Sqdn, RAF attached to Army of Occupation based in Turkey, 1919. Period with 30 Sqdn, RAF at Baghdad, Iraq, 1920-1921: background to posting.
REEL 4 Continues: recconnaisance role during Iraq rebellion; story of forced landing in DH9A and journey to secureassistance; operations of B Flight in North West Persia against Bolsheveik forces; death of crash landed pilot captured by Cossack troops. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bugge, Fawcett Hagbert | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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