Fagence, Victor Edgar (Oral history)

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British private served with 10th (Service) Bn Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt), 124th Bde, 41st Div at Battersea Park, London and Albuhera Barracks, Aldershot, GB, 12/1915-5/1916; served with 12th (Reserve) Bn Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt) at Northampton, GB, 5/1916-12/1916, served with 11th (Service) Bn Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt) 123rd Bde, 41st Div on Western Front, 2/1917-7/1917; hospitalisation and convalescence at ECD Convalescent Camp, Shoreham-by-Sea in GB, 8/1917-12/1917; served with 1st Bn Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt), 100th and 19th Bdes, 33rd Div on Western Front, 1/1918-3/1918

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REEL 1 Recollections of training as private with B Coy, 10th (Service) Bn Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt), 124th Bde, 41st Div at Battersea Park, London and Albuhera Barracks, Aldershot, GB, 12/1915-5/1916: reasons for enlistment; uniform; drill; bayonet drill and question of it's relevance; experience of NCOs and officers; trench construction. Aspects of period as private with 12th (Reserve) Bn Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt) at Northampton, GB, 5/1916-12/1916: question of underage status and age required for active service overseas; reduced medical category. REEL 2 Continues: Recollections of operations as private with 11th (Service) Bn Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt), 123rd Bde, 41st Div at Messines Ridge, Belgium, 2/1916-4/1917: journey out to join unit at Alberta Camp, Reninghelst, Belgium, 12/1916; description of route into front line at Mont-Saint-Éloi, France including initial experience of German shellfire at Scottish Wood, Belgium and ignorance of communication trenches; front line relief system; sniper problem; wet conditions and use of trench waders; problems with rats and lice; cold conditions; lack of sleep; stand to. REEL 3 Continues: night sentry duty; rations; water supply; ration parties; contrast in nature of German shellfire on front and support lines; carrying parties; working parties building trenches under supervision of Royal Engineers; question of small arms fire reaching reserve trenches at Dickebusch, Belgium; dugouts; opinion of Royal Engineers and Royal Artillery; cold conditions. REEL 4 Continues: use of whale oil to prevent trench foot; heavy German shellfire during attempted raid by neighbouring 10th (Service) Bn Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt), 2/1917; German high velocity shells; shellfire in open ground; background to selection as Lewis Gun ammunition carrier; role of Lewis Gun team members; weight of equipment and ammunition carried during attack on Messines Ridge, Belgium, 7/6/1917; role of Lewis Gun Number One. Aspects of period as private with 11th (Service) Bn Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt), 123rd Bde, 41st Div during preparations for Battle of Messines, Western Front, 4/1917-6/1917: tactical training during rest period at Houlle, France, 4/1917; battlefield models. REEL 5 Continues: plan to capture Damstrasse Strongpoint; tunnelling operations. Recollections of operations as private with 1th (Service) Bn Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt), 123rd Bde, 41st Div during attack on Messines Ridge, Belgium, 7/6/1917: move up and organisation of attack into waves of infantry; temporary suspension of artillery bombardment immediately prior to zero hour; personal morale; attack across No Man's Land; difficulties with German barbed wire; capture of Damstrasse Strongpoint; digging new front line trench; digging forward Lewis Gun post and accidentally coming under fire from British troops; reasons for not consolidating old German positions; personal morale. REEL 6 Continues: Recollections of operations as private 1th (Service) Bn Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt), 123rd Bde, 41st Div in Ypres Salient, Belgium, 6/1917-7/1917: increase in German long range shelling; enfilading fire on British positions in Ypres Salient, Belgium; ground conditions and question of artillery success in clearing barbed wire; personal morale; problems caused by German concrete pillboxes. Recollections of operations as private with 11th (Service) Bn Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt), 123rd Bde, 41st Div during attack at Battle Wood, Belgium, 31/7/1917: casualties whilst lying on start line; advance across No Man's Land and capture of German front lines; delay in attack on German pillbox whilst waiting for artillery to lift barrage and consequent casualties; ground conditions effect on pace of advance; taking shelter in shell hole and narrow escape from German hand grenade; taking shelter in wood hut; stoppage whilst firing Lewis Gun. REEL 7 Continues: jamming of Lewis Gun by mud; story of being wounded by German machine gun fire whilst crossing open ground; initial treatment by stretcher bearer in shell hole; treatment at Advanced Dressing Station (ADS) and question of priority for serious wounds; evacuation as walking wounded to Ypres-Comines Canal, Belgium. Aspects of period of hospitalisation in GB, 8/1917-9/1917: medical evacuation in stages; question of civilian knowledge of war; hospital uniform worn. Aspects of period at ECD Convalescent Camp, Shoreham-by-Sea, GB, 9/1917-12/1917: grading of medical condition. REEL 8 Continues: question of medical officer passing unfit men as A1 at medical boards; ruse to avoid being passed A1 a medical board; duties depending on medical grading; training. Aspects of operations as private with 1st Bn Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt), 100th and 19th Bdes, 33rd Div in Ypres Salient, Belgium, 1/1918-3/1918: ground conditions; accuracy of German ranging on communications routes; use of shell hole posts to form front line; latrines; use of solidified methylated spirits to boil water for tea. Reaction to Armistice, 11/11/1918. Question of reaction to delay prior to demobilisation, 5/1919.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1945-1989 (production), First World War (content), First World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Lance, David G (Recorder)
Fagence, Victor Edgar (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1974
Dimensions: whole: Duration 110, Number Of Items 8
Catalogue number: 327

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