William Hunt oral history part 4
Description: Part 4 of 5, from 2 CDs marked "20 SB Manchester Res. L/C William Hunt, No. 17127. WW1 memories". 8.38 mins duration, chapter 4 of 5: arrived the Dutch frontier, with a very few prisoners, to Rotterdam, fresh uniform from the British there / sailed for home / lost a lot of weight / first meal in the NAAFI in [Hull?], England, being served by English girls / train to Ripon for medical examination / marching orders and tickets for home / got home and his father fed him on malt and cod liver oil / while in the front line he was not granted leave to attend his mother’s funeral / father did not know Hunt was alive, a letter from the former C.O. did reassure him that Hunt was captured, not believed killed / on leave near Albert behind the lines, walked to Amiens to see the cathedral / French civilians, fried eggs and chips in a sort of cafe. William Hunt signed on in 1915 at Manchester Town Hall to the 5th City Battalion, Manchester Regiment. His initial training was at Bellvue, Manchester then Morcambe and finally Grantham, before going to France in December 1915. He fought at Albert and Fricourt and after a spell behind the lines with trench fever was sent back to the front to join the 8th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment at Thiepval where he was injured by mortar fire, wounded through the thigh and taken prisoner on 26th August 1916. He then spent the rest of the war in two or three prisoner of war camps before being repatriated at the end of the war and demobilised at Preston on 19th March 1919. In his attestation certificate, downloaded from the Ancestry website, Hunt's details include: No. 1712 [?]; Corps: 5th City [?] Batt. Mtsr [Manchester?] Regt; Your name: William Hunt: Address: Rosslyn, Hazelwood Rd, Hale [?], Cheshire; Age: 24 years 10 months; Trade: clerk; Married: no; Previous service: no; Witness to Hunt's signature: K. Howell. Two CDs of his story have been recorded telling the details of his wartime experiences from signing on to repatriation. A number of photographs of the period are also in the collection and postcards to his fiance.
Contributor: Alan Hunt
Coverage: Western Front
Type: Interview; Tape; item
Format: Tape
Identifier: 46060; 3318
Language: English
Source: UGC
Provider: Europeana 1914 - 1918
Providing country: Europe
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- Concept Term: http://dbpedia.org/page/World_War_I
- Concept Label: [перша світова війна] (uk); [第一次世界大战] (zh); [prima guerra mondiale] (it); [første verdenskrig] (no); [erste weltkrieg] (de); [ensimmäinen maailmansota] (fi); [primeira guerra mundial] (pt); [i wojna światowa] (pl); [première guerre mondiale] (fr); [första världskriget] (sv); [first world war, great war, world war 1, world war i, world war one, ww1, wwi] (en); [первая мировая война] (ru); [primera guerra mundial] (es); [eerste wereldoorlog] (nl)
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