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Description: | British private served with 14th Bn York and Lancaster Regt in Battle of the Somme, France, 1/Jul/1916
REEL 1: Recollections of operations as private with 14th Bn York and Lancaster Regt in Battle of the Somme, France, 1/Jul/1916: description of 14th Bn not reaching objective of 4th line of German trenches due to machine gun fire and barbed wire; casualties; ordered to walk over No Man's Land towards German trenches; question of effectiveness of preliminary artillery bombardment of German positions; story of enlistment with artillery age 14 and desertion; enlisted with 14th Bn York and Lancaster Regt; training; service in Gallipoli campaign, 1915; posted to France for Somme offensive, 1916; description of injury to thigh from piece of shrapnel and medical treatment; memory of seeing reserve trenches filled with dead and wounded; returned to GB for convalescence and discharged for being underage; opinion of strategy of Battle of the Somme; memory of company digging trenches and pre-war employment as miners; role of Military Police; opinion of officers; further comments on strategy and casualties; reason for returning to Somme battlefield; question of Germans prior knowledge of attack; memories of comrades in 14th Bn; attitude to survival; story of enlisting following death of brother in navy, 1914. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Lindlay, Frank | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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