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Description: | British stretcher bearer served with 39th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps in GB, Gallipoli and Mesopotamia, 1914-1918
REEL 1 Recollections of background in Dorsetshire and Glamorganshire, 1894-1914: work as farm labourer; Boy Scouts activities. Recruitment to 9th Bn Welch Regt at Neith, 6/8/1914. Period at Cardiff, 8/1914. Period at Parkhouse Camp, 9/1914-: conditions of service; training; relationship with NCOs. Volunteering for training as stretcher bearer at Tidworth Hospital, 12/1914: roles of four man stretcher bearing team; first aid training. Posting as stretcher bearer to 39th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps at Tidworth and Torquay: 1/1915-7/1915: organisation of unit; training.
REEL 2 News of posting to Gallipoli, send off from Torquay civilians and voyage out on Kardanis to Mudros, Lemnos, /1915-8/1915. Landing at A Beach, Suvla, Gallipoli, Turkey, 7/8/1915. Recollections of conditions of service, lifestyle and daily routine as stretcher bearer working between Chocolate Hill and A Beach, 8/1915-12/1915: two man stretcher teams; collecting casualties from regimental first aid posts; techniques and problems of stretcher bearing; question of number of journeys made; personal morale; food and water rations; washing, appearance and medical hygiene; lice problem.
REEL 3 Continues: fly problem; latrines; prevalence of dysentery; parcels and letter contacts with GB; relationship with other ranks, NCOs and officers; sniping; shell fire; effects of cold, 11/1915; evacuation to Lemnos, 12/1915. Period at Helles, 12/1915-1/1916. Move to Mesopotamia, Turkey, 1916. Recollections of period as sick bay attendant and stretcher bearer in Mesopotamia, 1916-1918: precautions against heat; methods of treating heat stroke, desert sores, dysentery, sand fly fever and malaria; conditions of service.
REEL 4 Continues: Indian troops; personal morale; story of being wounded in head whilst stretcher bearing; treatment and evacuation via Basra to India, 1918; different bandaging methods, tourniquets and splints used on wounds; return to unit. Armistice, 11/1918, return to GB and demobilisation, 1919. Post war employment in chiropody. Effects of war. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Tolley, James William | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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