Peck, Thomas Argent (Oral history)

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Object description

British munitions worker with Wright and Son Munitions Factory, Edgeware, GB,1915-1916; private served with 23rd (Service) Bn Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt), 99th Bde, 2nd Div on Western Front, 8/1918-11/1918

Content description

REEL 1 Background in Edgware, GB, 1898-1914: family; father's service with Army Service Corps; education; employment in grocery store; reaction to declaration of First World War, 4/8/1914; employment at aircraft factory. Recollections of period as munitions worker at Wright and Son Munitions Factory, Edgware, GB, 1915-1916: obtaining employment in Wright and Son Munitions Factory; question of skills and training; description of factory and workshop; work making nose caps for Ordnance QF 18 Pounder Field Gun shells on capstan lathe; night work; relations with staff and foreman; working conditions; question of danger in workplace; types of machinery used; German Zeppelin raids and air raid precautions; work clothing and hours; facilities; attitude to night work. REEL 2 Continues: lodgings; question of apprenticeship; wages and cost of living; union activity; supplies of raw material; attitude to women working in factory; factory football team; communication with father on Western Front; attitude to war and propaganda stories; receiving exemption from military service as munitions worker. Aspect of enlistment and training in Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt) in GB and Ireland, 1916: reason for volunteering for British Army, 1916; enlistment with Royal Fusiliers in Hounslow, 28/5/1916; uniform; basic training in Ireland; drill; bayonet practice; trench exercises; opinion of training. Recollections of operations as private with 23rd (Service) Bn Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt), 99th Bde, 2nd Div on Western Front, 8/1918-10/1918: attack on Imperial German Army trenches on Somme, France; attitude to personal morale; story of German trench raid. REEL 3 Continues: journey into front line on Somme, France; comparison of German and British trenches; use of white tapes as guides into trenches; description of role as No 3 in Lewis Gun team; kit and equipment; morale; trench periscope; night raids; outposts; amusing story of falling asleep; incident of wounded German soldier firing at advancing troops; reaction to loss of friends; firing on Imperial German Air Service aircraft; wounding in foot by ricochet bullet, 26/10/1918; medical treatment in France and GB. REEL 4 Continues: personal hygiene and baths; latrines. Aspects of period of hospitalisation and service with British Army in GB, 1918-1919: medical treatment received in hospital in Birmingham; convalescence; amusing story of pianola; duties guarding German prisoners of war, 4/1919; discharge from British Army, 7/1919; disability pension; medical examination; effects of wound.

Object Details

Category: Sound
Related period: 1945-1989 (production), First World War (content), First World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Stovold, Jan R (Recorder)
Peck, Thomas Argent (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1986
Dimensions: whole: Duration 120, Number Of Items 4
Catalogue number: 9365

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Peck, Thomas Argent
British Army, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt), Bn (1st Sportsmen's), 23 (Service)
British Army, Bde, 99
British Army, Div, 2
Munitions Factory, Wright and Son, Edgware
Associated places

England, United Kingdom
Edgware, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
Ireland
Western Front
France
Somme, France
Belgium
Associated themes

Military Operations, 1914-1919: Western Front, 1914-1918
Civilian Life and War Work, 1914-1919: War Work, 1914-1918

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