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Dodds, W.D. - 13th Battalion - Interview

Item number (ISN):

116960

Series title:

Flanders Fields : [background interview]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1964-01-28

Item number (ISN):

116960

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

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:

1964-01-28

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

interviewer, Frank Lalor

Description:

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World war I veteran W.D. [William David?] Dodds is interviewed about his experiences with the 13th Canadian Infantry Battalion.~Dodds, who enlisted in 1914, became the "unofficial correspondent" for the Toronto Star newspaper which published his war recollections sent from the front by regular dispatches. He begins the interview with a description of the enthusiastic reception for the Canadian troops at Plymouth and the generous offer by a local peer to entertain a select group of Canadian soldiers.~Dodds reported on the gas attack at Second Ypres and notes that other papers picked up the story. Stating that he would never "forgive the Germans" for the gas attack on the hapless French Colonials, he remembers the victims who "begged and prayed not to be left to the Germans." He says the victims were "packed stretcher to stretcher" overwhelming the field hospitals. He comments that the Canadians who struggled to hold the gaps in the lines created by the fleeing gas victims, suffered very heavy losses.~Among the many topics discussed by Dodds are censorship of his news dispatches, the introduction of tanks, "those big, lumbering things", the infantry and artillery troops and the disparity between the officers and the enlisted men. He concludes with an account of the cancellation of his wedding plans by his suprerior officer the day before the ceremony.

Language:

English

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

104266

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1980-0123/070

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

666573

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

116960-1980-0123-070.WAV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

BWF

Made from:

1980-0123/070

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

666574

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

116960-1980-0123-070.MP3

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MP3

Made from:

1980-0123/070

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

156256

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

C07446

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

1980-0123/067
1980-0123/068
1980-0123/069
1980-0123/070

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

156346

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

C07447

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

1980-0123/070
1980-0123/071
1980-0123/072
1980-0123/073

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

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Reproduction access:

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