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Kippers and rice

Mr. Young describes having good cooks and food at Camp Bramshott, despite one amusing breakfast incident.

Sealegs

Mr. Young describes his trip to Camp Liphook and being assigned to help collect AWOL’s from London.

I took over

Mr. Copp describes attacking and securing a position at Vimy Ridge and notes the heavy German death toll.

The shell went into my skull

Mr. Copp describes a reconnaissance mission during which he suffers a head wound from shrapnel. While convalescing in England, he is invited to Buckingham Palace where he is awarded the Military Cross by King George V.

In the mud

Mr. Copp describes the effects of fatigue depleting his Company’s ranks during a forced march to Mametz after five days in action at the Somme.

Shell through the roof

Mr. Copp gives us insight into the irony of war. He describes how he and his men safely advance to their objective amidst a shelling, only to lose men to a direct shell hit as they are transporting a wounded soldier to safety.

Minenwerfers

Mr. Copp describes an unexploded German shell landing in their field kitchen. Feeling his men are too exhausted, he removes the danger himself.

He fell dead at my feet

Mr. Copp describes one deadly day in the trenches: a soldier killed by a sniper, another by shrapnel, a corporal going crazy from shell shock, and two of his men killed by a direct artillery hit.

Hellfire Corner

Mr. Copp describes his platoon’s first experience in action, being shelled, and describes his efforts to care for five resulting casualties.

Forced march to Ypres

Mr. Copp describes carrying the kit for two of his men (plus his own) who would have been too exhausted to otherwise proceed on the forced march to Ypres.

It was always vees

Mr. Dickins describes formation flying, chain of command in the air, and difficulty maintaining a full complement of aircraft in a flight.

I had no room to manoeuvre

Mr. Dickins describes an incident wherein a piece of shrapnel disables his engine and he has to fly back to base “dead stick.”

Date modified:: 2019-02-19