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Various Veterans - 21st Battalion

Item number (ISN):

116997

Series title:

Flanders Fields : [background interview]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1963-04-09

Item number (ISN):

116997

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Type of material:

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Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: FLANDERS FIELDS

Accession:

1980-0123

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1963-04-09

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

interviewer, Frank Lalor

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Interview of veterans Martin Henry Timms, Alfred Thomas Tugwood, Charles Collupy, Alfred William Woodrow, G. H. Smith and J. Murray about their experiences with the 21st Battalion during World War I.~A veteran, recalling his first time in the lines at the Messines Front, remarks that the officers, as well as the men under their command, were so "green" that they used "drill books" to teach them. They discuss the heavy casualties at Courcelette and the Regina Trench where the enemy mounted an offensive under a barrage of "whiz bangs." At the battle of the St. Eloi Craters, the 21st veterans recall that "hell broke loose" and the "water was red from blood" as the troops were crowded into a narrow front.~At the Battle of Passchendaele, where the terrain was like "soup", they lament the heavy casualties at "Hell Fire Corner" and their many wounded comrads who they couldn"t rescue because of the intense enemy fire. In 1918, the battalion prepared for the "biggest battle on the Western Front" near Amiens. They talk about the 6th of August when "everything advanced under a protective barrage", and the battalion was able to achieve its objective.

Language:

English
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GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

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