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Description: | British gunner served as signaller with Royal Field Artillery on Western Front, 1914-1917
REEL 1 Recollections of period as signaller with Royal Artillery during retreat from Mons, Belgium, 8/1914: story of scavenging food; Belgian refugees during prior advance, 8/1914; roads crowded with Belgian refugees and infantry; reservists' problems with new boots; stories of scavenging food; wounded Germans opinion of speed on British infantry rifle fire. Recollections of attack on Hulluch, Loos sector, Bethune area, France, 25/9/1915: situation; problems with gas masks and direction of wind blown gas cloud during infantry attack; effectiveness of fire of German machine gunner hand cuffed to his gun; corpses in No Man's Land; story of attempting to lay telephone line to Hulluch crossroads still held by German troops. State of personal morale and failed attempt at self injury during period in Ypres area, 1917. Recollections of retreat from Mons, 8/1914: infantry foot problems during retreat from Mons, 8/1914-9/1914; attempts to conserve energy of exhausted horses; state of morale and impact of offensive action, 5/9/1914. Recollections of attack on Hulluch, 25/9/1915: situation; problems with gas masks and direction of wind blown gas cloud during infantry attack; effectiveness of fire of German machine gunner hand cuffed to his gun; corpses in No Man's Land. during period in Ypres area, 1917: state of personal morale; role repairing telephone lines; failed attempt at self injury; fatigue; wounds from not taking cover from German shell burst; evacuation to GB; personal morale; importance of repairing wires; excessive fatigue. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Palmer, John Willis | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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