Collection search - Mills, Guy - 4th Battalion - Interview
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Record information – Brief Mills, Guy - 4th Battalion - Interview
Series title:Flanders Fields : [background interview]Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1963-11-19Item number (ISN):116905Type of material:Sound recordingsFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: FLANDERS FIELDSAccession:1980-0123Media:SoundPart:1 of 1Production date:1963-11-19Production company:Canadian Broadcasting CorporationProduction credit:interviewer, Frank LalorDescription:Interview with Guy Mills, an officer with the 4th Canadian Infantry Battalion, who talks about his experiences in World War I. He begins with his enlistment in Toronto and continues with his training at Valcartier and later at Salisbury where dinner was usually "fatty mutton stew."~In Europe, Mills describes the battle to secure Upton Wood and the rising resentment against German prisoners of war. Turning to the advance on the Canal du Nord, Mills describes the heavy loss of life from the German machine gunners and states that once overun, the Germans were anxious to surrender which made the Allied troops "mad - thinking of the buddies left behind." "Sometimes it was too bad for these fellows who wanted to surrender."~Wounded in battle and evacuated to Manchester, Mills recalls that many of the recuperating soldiers succumbed to the influenza epidemic. There were "funeral corteges as far as you could see."Language:EnglishDetailed holdings information: -
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