Heyes, W (Oral history)

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Object description

British NCO served with transport section, 18th Bn King's Liverpool Regt and with 13th Bn King's Liverpool Regt on Western Front, 1915-1918

Content description

REEL 1: Background in GB, 1914-1915: story of enlistment with cousins in 18th Bn King's Liverpool Regt, Liverpool, 8/1914; posted to camp at Knowsley Park; formation of new company; allocated horses and posted to Grantham for training; description of conditions in camp; posted to Salisbury Plain, 10/1914; further training with Royal Horse Artillery and increase in pay; description of voyage from Southampton to Le Havre, 11/1915. Aspects of operations as private with transport section, 18th Bn King's Liverpool Regt on Western Front, 1915-1918: transportation in cattle trucks; description of trench system; story of cooking turkey for Christmas dinner, 12/1915; moved to Carnoy, Somme area; description of training for Somme offensive; casualties in 18th Bn, 1/Jul/1916; question of achieving Div objectives; daily routine and duties; role in shoeing horses; memory of friends killed on 1/Jul/1916. REEL 2 Continues: description of operations in Arras area, 1917; question of shells cutting barbed wire; memory of hearing mines exploding on Messines Ridge, 1917; method of shoeing horses; story of man falling from observation balloon; description of roads in Ypres area, Belgium, 1917; duties carrying concertina wire and water supplies on mules; story of mule falling off duckboard; in line at St Quentin, France, 1918; relieved French troops; description of German offensive and retreat, 21/Mar/1918; question of receiving rations; amusing story of cow; posted to Ypres area, Belgium; question of retreat; training American troops; posted to 13th King's Liverpool Regt, 1918; infantry and weapon training; description of conditions in Hindenburg Line; role in reserve. REEL 3 Continues: leave; effects of gas; story of fighting through village; memories of Armistice, 11/11/1918; marched to German border; memories of cousins; story of shell from naval gun landing on transport section and casualties; story of Pte Berry; various memories of officers.

Object Details

Category: Sound
Related period: 1945-1989 (production), First World War (content)
Creator: Maddocks, Graham (Production company)
Maddocks, Graham (Recorder)
Heyes, W (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1989-08-14
Dimensions: whole: Duration 90, Number Of Items 3
Catalogue number: 24537

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Associated people and organisations

Heyes, W
British Army, King's (Liverpool Regt), Bn, 18 (Service)
British Army, King's Liverpool Regiment, 13th Battalion
Associated events

01/3(4-15)
Associated places

France
Belgium
Associated themes

Cassette

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