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Description: | British civilian worked for Ceylon Civil Service, 1914-1915; served as officer with 28th Bn Punjabi Regt in Ceylon and Mesopotamia, 1915-1918; seconded to Department of Food Production, Ministry of Agriculture in GB, 1918
REEL 1: Background in Crich, Derbyshire, 1892-1914: family; education; memory of death of Queen Victoria, 1901; interest in horses and motorcycles; further education at Malborough Public School. 1905-1910; description of training as cadet with Officer Training Corps; opinion of training; further training at Officers' Training Camp, Epsom; story of role in raising volunteer battalion to join 5th Bn Sherwood Foresters, 1914. Aspects of period with Ceylon Civil Service, 1914-1915: nature of duties.
REEL 2 Continues: memory of incident involving Suffragette in St Paul's Cathedral, London, 3/Aug/1914; story of joining 28th Bn Punjabi Regt in Ceylon, 1915. Aspects of period as officer with 28th Bn Punjabi Regt in Ceylon, 1915: story of role in controlling civil unrest; description of political situation; story of appointment as ADC to Brigadier General Hunter-Thompson and nature of duties; accommodation; social life; relations with Indian troops.
REEL 3 Continues: Recollections of operations as officer with 28th Punjabi Regt in Mesopotamia, 1915-1918: first impressions of Basra; memory of sergeant covered in flies; description of river transport; problem of mirages; description of terrain and climate around Basra and Amara; opinion of rations; memory of eating dates; description of journey from Basra to Kut-el Amara; question of attempts to relieve besieged garrison at Kut; memory of gun flashes; problem of injuring back; memory of Arab looters; description of journey by boat to hospital in Basra; question of adequacy of medical services on journey; memory of wounded Scottish soldier.
REEL 4 Continues: mental state during journey; problem of lack of water; description of medical treatment in Basra, India and Egypt; memory of hospital bed covered in flies; further treatment in GB; memory of diet of tripe and brains; convalescence in Isle of Wight and question of returning to active service. Aspects of period as civilian with Department of Food Production in GB, 1918: description of work advising farmers on food productivity; attitude to not returning to active service. Post-war employment as teacher. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hart, Peter M | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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