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British private served with 2/5th Bn Somerset Light Infantry in GB and Burma, 1914-1917; NCO served as driver with No 2 Mechanical Transport Coy, Army Service Corps on North West Frontier, India, 1917-1919

Content description

REEL 1: Background in Yeovil, GB, 1896-1914: family; education; story of engineering apprenticeship and training at night school; reaction to outbreak of war, 8/1914; story of attempting to enlist and problem of size; reaction of father; enlisted with Somerset Light Infantry, 9/1914; induction at Taunton Barracks; reaction of parents to enlistment. Aspects of training with 2/5th Bn Somerset Light Infantry in GB, 1914: drill in civilian clothes; posted to camp on Salisbury Plain; issued with khaki uniform; drill; musketry training; description of conditions in camp; memories of bugle calls. REEL 2 Continues: five days foreign service leave; reported to barracks in Taunton; entrained to Southampton, 12/1914; story of fatal accident during loading of ammunition in ship's hold; memory of send-off from Salvation Army band. Aspects of voyage aboard troop ship Ionian from Southampton to India, 12/1914-1/1915: description of living conditions and accommodation; problem of seasickness; story of accident with steam winch; messing arrangements and opinion of food; medical treatment. REEL 3 Continues: daily routine and duties aboard ship; physical training; memory of sighting Gibraltar; story of arrival at Port Said, Egypt; description of sunken French destroyer; story of throwing pennies into sea for local children; memories of buying food from local traders; coaling; description of sailing through Suez Canal. REEL 4 Continues: story of throwing stale barrels of flour overboard; weather conditions during voyage; issued with tropical uniform; arrival in Bombay, 1/1915. Recollections of operations as private with 2/5th Bn Somerset Light Infantry in India and Burma, 1915-1917: description of disembarkation and train journey to Fort William, Calcutta; accommodation in tents; medical inspection and inoculations; story of visit to site of Black Hole of Calcutta; description of voyage aboard river paddle steamer to Rangoon, Burma; disembarked at Prone; problem of quick sand; local currency; story of buying bananas; fear of contracting dysentery. REEL 5 Continues: further comments on currency; sailed up Irrawaddy River and moved into barracks near Mandalay; description of sand storm; accommodation and sleeping arrangements; story of injury to finger and treatment; further memories of sand storm; description of latrines; story of drummer bitten by scorpion; problem of spiders and scorpions. REEL 6 Continues: problem of mosquitoes and other insects; climate; story of death of soldier from insect bites; description of removing bugs from bed boards with paraffin and cigarette smoke; opinion of Burmese people; story of crossing rope bridge in jungle; story of snake; description of jungle. REEL 7 Continues: daily routine and duties in Burma; musketry drill; rifle inspection; tactical exercises; story of leg injury and description of medical treatment; posted to barracks in Rangoon. REEL 8 Continues: story of killing scorpion with bayonet; recreational activities in Rangoon; story of Whiteaway Laidlaw department store; daily routine; physical training; musketry practice; story of joining church choir in Rangoon; guard duty. REEL 9 Continues: awareness of progress of war; memory of Rangoon Times; communication with home; attitude to serving on Western Front; story of volunteering for service in Mesopotamia; story of transferring to Army Service Corps, 1/1917; description of journey to Rangoon; embarked on steamer for India, 18/Jan/1917. Aspects of voyage from Rangoon to Calcutta, 1/1917: story of assisting detective arrest murderers aboard ship. REEL 10 Continues: end of story; story of making towel during voyage; disembarked at Calcutta, India; Aspects of train journey to Rawalpindi, 1917. REEL 11 Continues: story of being bitten on neck by insect and medical treatment; food; chained rifle to arm while sleeping; memories of visiting Taj Mahal, Agra; story of loosing kit bag. REEL 12 Continues: Recollections of operations as driver with No 2 Mechanical Transport Coy, Army Service Corps on North West Frontier, India, 1917-1919: arrived at Rawalpindi; varied composition of No 2 Mechanical Transport Coy; promoted to corporal; description of duties assembling Thorneycroft and Leyland lorries from England; description of training as lorry driver; control of vehicle and use of gears; problem of gauging speed without speedometer; passed driving test; posted into Kyber Pass sector. REEL 13 Continues: description of journey to Army Service Corps depot; change of climate and driving conditions; uniform; problem of snow; conditions in camp; accommodation; description of driving lorry in convoy down mountain road; use of gears; speed; allocated new lorry; memories of other units; opinion of condition of roads. REEL 14 Continues: story of visit to Amritsar; posted to barracks in Lahore; description of Vickers machine gun mounted on lorry; duties patrolling streets in Lahore; imposition of martial law; story of lorries at Rawalpindi station; description of journey to Rori; memory of bridge; role in charge of train transporting lorries; description of railway journey to Quetta; reason for taking photographs. REEL 15 Continues: description of journey on Sind Railway into desert; speed of train; stopped for repairs and refuelling; memory of travelling on footplate; description of desert; reassembled lorries; problem of heat; description of camp and accommodation; story of pulling lorries out of sand; description of uniform; reaction to news of Armistice, 11/1918; returned to Rawalpindi; description of journey to Amritsar. REEL 16: duties patrolling streets in Amritsar; attitude to troops firing on rioters; opinion of Brigadier General Dyer's actions at Amritsar, 13/Apr/1919; attitude to killing civilians; problem of bed bugs; posted to Peshawar; duties delivering ice and other supplies; description of Khyber Pass area; posted to Thal; memory of Sikh troops; story of towing field guns to Peshawar fort. REEL 17 Continues: description of operations in Thal area and tribes involved; further memories of towing guns; problem of heat and maintenance of lorries; story of attack on lorry; description of terrain and nature of fighting; question of training; daily routine and duties delivering supplies including ice. REEL 18: description of canvas covers on lorries; memory of carrying fruit to wounded soldiers; treatment of wounded in tented camp; opinion of Leyland lorry; story of repairing engine; workshop lorries; description of field hospital and medical facilities; question of rivalry between Thorneycroft and Leyland lorry drivers; relations with other units; fights over cap badges. REEL 19 Continues: description of Rawalpindi and barracks;story of buying gramophone record; opinion of British civilian residents; description of different uniforms; further memories of towing field guns during operations at Thal; problem of sniper fire and countermeasures. REEL 20 Continues: description of artillery batteries and types of shells; terrain; question of mutilation of British prisoners by tribesman; opinion of Afghans; attitude to fear; weapons and ammunition carried on lorry; number of lorries in convoy. REEL 21 Continues: story of 18-pdr gun demolishing tower; story of delivering grain to Kurum valley fort; memory of punkah-wallahs; problem of heat affecting engines; description of lorries; story of meeting friend from Yeovil. REEL 22 Continues: story of volunteering for further service as driving instructor; entrained to Bombay. Aspects of voyage to GB aboard Beaufort Castle, 12/1919: amusing story of piano falling into sea; discipline aboard ship; gambling activities; story of Regimental Sergeant Major. REEL 23 Continues: arrived in Plymouth; demobilisation; army pay; story of policeman. Aspects of post-life and employment in Yeovil, GB.

Object Details

Category: Sound
Related period: Second World War (production), Interwar (content)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Stovold, Jan R (Recorder)
Rendall, Bertie Grenville Livingstone (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1985
Dimensions: whole: Duration 690, Number Of Items 23
Catalogue number: 8745

Object associations

Associated people and organisations

Rendall, Bertie Grenville Livingstone
British Army, Somerset Light Infantry, Bn 2/5
British Army, Army Service Corps & Motor Transport Coy, 2
Associated events

08/3(549.14)
08/4(549.14)
31/2(41)
31/3(41)
31/3(591)
31/3(540)
Associated places

GB, England
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BU

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