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Description: | British private served with 10th Bn Norfolk Regt in Mesopotamia and India, 1915-18
REEL 1: Story of enlistment with Norfolk Regt in GB, 1/1915; creation of 10th Bn; issued with tropical kit and posted to Mesopotamia, 12/1915; description of voyage; accommodation on ship; transferred to different ship; landed at Basra. Aspects of operations with 10th Bn Norfolk Regt in Mesopotamia, 1915-1916: sleeping arrangements; weather conditions; marched to Amara; story of being wounded during attack and medical treatment; opinion of rations; water supplies; description of trenches; proximity to Turkish positions; opinion of officers; story of death and burial of quartermaster Johnson; conditions of uniform and boots; hospital treatment in Basra; posted to India, 1916. Aspects of operations with 10th Bn Norfolk Regt in India, 1916-1918: arrived in Bombay; description of train journey to Bangalore; problem of Baghdad sores; posted to Norfolk Regt depot, 12/1916 ; duties working in stores; memory of Christmas 1916; opinion of rations; daily routine and duties in ammunition stores and barracks; transferred to Royal Engineers; memories of Delhi.
REEL 2 Continues: posted to Bombay; story of return to GB and demobilisation at Purfleet, 1/1919 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Page, Pru & John | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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