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Description: | British officer served with 7th Bn Gloucestershire Regt at Gallipoli, 1915, and in Mesopotamia and Persia, 1917-1918; served with South Russian Mission, 1919-1921; served with Allied Police Commission in Turkey, 1921-1923
REEL 1: Background in Bristol, 1895-1914: family; education and activities with cadet corps; enrolment at Bristol University and membership of OTC; commissioned into 7th Bn Gloucestershire Regt, 1915. Aspects of operations with 7th Bn Gloucestershire Regt at Gallipoli, Turkey, 8-11/1915: opinion of training; daily life and conditions; evacuated to hospital in Malta with dysentery, 11/1915; opinion of hospital and treatment; description of role as platoon officer and sniper officer at Gallipoli; problem of flies and climate; opinion of organisation of Gallipoli campaign; returned to GB for period of convalescence; opinion of Royal Army Medical Corps; posted to base at Seaford; inoculations; issued with tropical uniform and kit. Aspects of operations with 7th Bn Gloucestershire Regt in Mesopotamia and Persia, 1917-1918: period in Basra hospital with dysentery, 10-12/1917; joined 7th Bn in Baghdad, 4/1918; opinion of senior officers.
REEL 2 Continues: further comments on senior officers; description of advance on Kirkuk; transport; problem of flies; description of barracks at Kirkuk; transferred to hospital in Baghdad with dysentery and opinion of medical services; causes and effects of dysentery; sanitary arrangements; attitude to Turks and Arabs; description of role as gas officer and training; importance of Boer War experience for officers; accommodation in bivouacs; opinion of rations; sings song; explains 'song of numbers'; promotion and pay; recreational and sporting activities; Indian personnel in army; social life in Baghdad; moved to Persia and role in collecting Armenian refugees from Bijar; description of town of Hamadan.
REEL 3 Continues: comparison of conditions in Persia and Mesopotamia; story of Gurkha sentry; problem of command structure; pay; reaction to news of Armistice, 11/11/1918; amusing story of German officer; question of acquiring Armenian levies; conditions for refugees; description of journey to Baku, Russia, 1919. Aspects of operations with South Russian Mission, 1919-1920: description of Baku; role of Allied force in South Russia; social life in Baku; relations with civilian population; currency and rates of exchange; question of pro-Tsarist sympathies; attitude of Russians to British troops; accommodation; daily routine and duties; attitude to Bolsheviks; description of evacuation of Baku, 11/1921.
REEL 4 Continues: organisation of 39th Bde and British forces in Caucasus region; posted to barracks in Scutari; attitude to demobilisation;; memory of first Armistice Day anniversary in Constantinople, 1919; reason for volunteering for South Russian Mission, 1919; description of journey to Novorossisk and duties as base adjutant; relations with White Russians; description of Novorossisk; role in collecting refugees from Rostov; organisation of base camp; opinion of rations; social life in Novorossisk; weather conditions; story of telegram from Churchill to GOC; description of evacuation from Novorossisk and journey to Sebastopol, 2/1920; attitude to role of South Russian Mission; posted to Constantinople.
REEL 5 Continues: story of demobilisation in Constantinople and employment in bank, 1921. Aspects of period with Allied Police Commission in Turkey, 1921-1923: role of Allied Police Commission based in Constantinople; command structure; uniform; pay; daily routine and duties; opinion of Turks, French and Italians; area of responsibility in Constantinople; problem of looters; international composition of Allied Police Commission; opinion of Turkish police; role in maintaining civil order; attitude of Turks to Commission; story of disbanding of Allied Police Mission, 1923; attitude to government of Kemal Pasha; demobilisation. Enlistment with RAF, 1924. Attitude to British intervention in Middle East. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | IWM | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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