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Description: | British NCO served with 1/6th Bn Lancashire Fusiliers in GB, Egypt and Gallipoli, 1910-1916
REEL 1 Background in Hebden Bridge and Todmorden, Yorks 1894-1914. Background to enlistment with 2/6th Bn Lancashire Fusiliers at Rochdale, 12/1914. Period at Southport and Crowborough, 12/1914-8/1915: route marches; signal training; billet accommodation; reactions to army lifestyle; later demobilisation, 2/1919; relationship with officers and NCOs; bayonet training; later training as bomber at Gallipoli, 1915; identification parade of troops to find attacker of woman at Southport. Voyage out with draft aboard Arcadian to Mudros, Lemnos, 8/1915: conditions; ignorance of destination. Speech by Conan Doyle at Crowborough, 7/1915. Landing at W Beach, Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey, 8/1915. Recollections of conditions of service, lifestyle and daily routine with B Coy, 1/6th Bn Lancashire Fusiliers in Gully Ravine sector, 8/1915-1/1916: move up to front line.
REEL 2 Continues: reception; question of closeness of Turkish lines; use of periscopes; situation; nature of trenches; story of NCO taking more than his share of bread; relationship with officers including ignoring their instructions on night rounds to look over parapet; food and water rations; instruction to grow moustache; latrines; fly and lice problems; working parties; stand to; sentry duty and question of looking over parapet; minimal small arms fire, use of cricket ball bombs and question of shell fire; cases of self inflicted wound and suicide.
REEL 3 Continues: letter and parcel contact with GB; rest periods at W Beach including dugouts, guarding stores, avoidance of sea bathing due to filthy condition of water and ineffective Asiatic Annie shell fire; attack of jaundice and evacuation to hospital in Alexandria and failure of efforts to secure base job, 10/1915-11/1915; condition on return to unit, 11/1915; troops' state of health; personal morale prior to evacuation, 12/1915; special bombardment on Turkish positions, 19/12/1915; extra rations issued on beach during evacuation on HMS Mars, 31/12/1915; reactions to evacuation. Various aspects of periods in Egypt and Palestine, 1/1916-2/1917: guard positions in Suez Canal area; advance to El-Arish.
REEL 4 Continues: cricket match on wood pitch; swimming in Suez Canal; state of health. Torpedo alert during voyage to Marseilles, France, 2/1917. Various aspects of period on Western Front, 2/1917-11/1918: story of uncontrolled retreat from positions following German attack in Somme area, 3/1918; disbanding of 1/6th Bn Lancashire Fusiliers and posting to 1/5th Bn Lancashire Fusiliers, 4/1918; leave periods, 1915-1918; personal morale; question of rum ration as teetotaller; story of staying behind in reserve whilst battalion was in front line at Ypres. Question of effects of war service. | 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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