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Description: | British NCO served with 1st Bn King's Own Lancaster Regt on Western Front, 1914-1918; present during mutiny at Etaples, France, 9/1917
REEL 1: Background in Idle, Yorkshire and Liverpool, 1896-1914: family; education; employment in Bradford; moved to Liverpool, 1909; employment; story of enlistment with King's Own Royal Lancaster Regt in Liverpool, 8/1914; basic training; posted to France, 1914. Recollections of operations as NCO with 1st Bn King's Own Lancaster Regt on Western Front, 1914-1918: gas mask; wounded and medical treatment; awarded Croix de Guerre and visit to Paris; hospital treatment in GB, 1917; returned to Western Front; posted to camp at Etaples, France; description of witnessing incident of Scottish soldier shot by Military Police; involvement in mutiny in camp; imprisonment; posted into line at Passchendaele, Belgium, 1917; wounded; worked as telephonist in Calais and Paris, 1917-1919; discharged, 5/1919; post-war life and employment in GB.
REEL 2 Continues: attitude to discharge from army, 1919; description of living conditions in trenches; opinion of rations; fraternisation with Germans; sleeping arrangements; further comments on mutiny at Etaples; conditions and food; reasons for mutiny; description of Field Punishment No 1; relations with officers; description of wounds and medical treatment; description of training in bullring in camp at Etaples; punishments; daily routine; question of being confined to camp; dispersal of mutineers to front line; reflections on period of military service; popular songs; attitude to 'greenhorn' officers; reason for being awarded Croix de Guerre. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Rawnsley, Albert | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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