Chapman, Taylor (Oral history)

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Description

Object description

British private served with 19th and 2nd Bns Manchester Regt in GB and on Western Front, 1914-1916; served as officer with Field Suvery Coy Royal Engineers on Western Front, 1916-1918

Content description

REEL 1: Aspects of period of training as private with 19th Bn Manchester Regt at Belle Vue and Heaton Park, Manchester, 9/1914-11/1915. Recollections of operations as private with 19th and 2nd Bns Manchester Regt and as officer with Field Survey Coy Royal Engineers on Western Front, 1915-1918: arrival at camp in Etaples, France; sent up to front line near Carnoy, Somme area; description of daily life in trenches; story of gland infection on neck and missing attack on 1/Jul/1916 in which all friends were killed; further convalescence in GB; posted to 2nd Bn Manchester Regt in France and opinion of battalion; commissioned and transferred to Field Survey Company Royal Engineers; description of operations following German offensive, 3/1918; memory of armistice day, 11/11/1918; demobilization and post-war employment. REEL 2: NOTHING ON THIS REEL REEL 3 Continues: background in Manchester, 1895-1914; family; education; learning Pitman's shorthand; employment; enlisted 9/Sep/1914 at City Hall, Manchester; period of training as private with 19th Bn Manchester Regt at Belle Vue and Heaton Park, Manchester, 9/1914-11/1915; arrival at camp in Etaples, France; sent up to front line near Carnoy, Somme area; description of daily life in trenches; story of gland infection on neck and missing attack on 1/Jul/1916 in which all friends were killed; opinion of medical treatment; conditions in trenches; question of pay; convalescence in Blackpool and memory of acting as guide on mock trench system; memory of German observation balloons; comparison of Pals and regular battalions; description of role with Field Survey Company Royal Engineers including explanation of flash spotting and sound ranging; question of pay. REEL 4 Continues: memory of armistice day at Le Cateau and story of clean shirt; demobilization of and various memories of post-war employment with publishing firms; story about author John Buchan; attitude to Germans and enthusiasm for war; reason for name Taylor; description of equipment as infantryman; story of meeting brother on Western Front; attitude of ex-soldiers to post-war social conditions. REEL 5 Continues: comparison of serving in Pals and regular battalions; reflections on war.

Object Details

Category: Sound
Related period: 1945-1989 (production), First World War (content)
Creator: Stedman, Michael (Production company)
Stedman, Michael (recorder)
Chapman, Taylor (interviewee/speaker)
Production date: 1988
Dimensions: whole: Duration 130, Number Of Items 5
Catalogue number: 10754

Object associations

Associated people and organisations

Chapman, Taylor
British Army, Manchester Regiment, 19th Battalion
British Army, Manchester Regiment, 2nd Battalion
British Army, Royal Engineers, Field Survey Company
Associated events

31/2(41)
31/3(41)
01/3(4-15)
Associated places

England, United Kingdom
Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Étaples, Pas-de-Calais, France
Somme, France
Carnoy, Somme, France
Belgium

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