Price, Joseph (Oral history)

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Object description

British NCO served with 12th (Service) Battalion, Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regt), 54th Bde, 18th (Eastern) Div in GB and on Western Front, 1914-1916

Content description

REEL 1: Recollections of period of enlistment and training with 12th (Service) Battalion, Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regt), 54th Bde, 18th (Eastern) Div in GB, 9/1914-6/1915: enlistment at Deptford, 3/9/1914; medical examination; reporting to Mill Hill Barracks and problem of finding accommodation; opinion of rations; parade and receiving army number 3256; move to Reed Hall Camp, Colchester; opinion of accommodation and rations; roll call and opinion of organisation; route marches and problem with boots; physical training exercises; move to Middlewick Camp, Colchester; issue of blue uniform; assignment to 16 Platoon, D Coy; training including drill; nature of rivalry between platoons; arms drill with old rifles and bayonet practice. REEL 2 Continues: explanation of rates of pay and contribution to family income; spending pay on beer and food; issue of kit bag and equipment; attitude to army life; opinion of billets in Colchester; manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain including rifle practice; opinion of officers and organisation. Recollections of operations as NCO with 12th (Service) Battalion, Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regt), 54th Bde, 18th (Eastern) Div on Western Front, 1915-1916: voyage from Southampton, GB to Le Havre, France, 7/1915; marching to camp near Amiens, France; attitude of French civilians; nature of billets in barns near Corbie; training with Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in front line. REEL 3 Continues: move into front line sector in Aveluy Wood, France and initial sight of German positions; description of being in wiring party at night; explanation of stand to and stand down drill; how rations delivered to front line by carrying party; method of brewing tea in support trenches; opinion of rations and typical breakfast; eating Tickler's Jam; communication with home; problem of food shortages and buying bread from French van; trench maintenance. REEL 4 Continues: problem of sleeping in trenches; reasons for being selected as a sniper; description of making a sniper's post; story of exchanging fire with German sniper; attending course at Army School of Sniping; issue of telescopic sight; conditions during winter, 1915-1916; problem of trench foot; method of draining trenches and reasons for laying duckboards; method of dealing with trench foot including 'stamping drill' and use of whale oil; importance of dry socks; rain and mud in trenches; role as runner for headquarters; sight of film cameraman in front line.

Object Details

Category: Sound
Related period: 1945-1989 (production), First World War (content), First World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Lance, David G (Recorder)
Price, Joseph (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1975
Dimensions: whole: Duration 120, Number Of Items 4
Catalogue number: 563

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Associated people and organisations

Price, Joseph
British Army, Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regt), Bn, 12 (Service)
British Army, Bde, 54
British Army, Div, 18 (Eastern)
British Army, Barracks, Mill Hill
British Army, Camp, Middlewick, Colchester
British Army, Camp, Reed Hall, Colchester
Associated places

England, United Kingdom
Deptford, London, England, United Kingdom
London, England, United Kingdom
Western Front
France
Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France
Amiens, Somme, France
Aveluy Wood, Somme, France
Associated themes

Military Operations, 1914-1919: Western Front, 1914-1918

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