Interview with L.J. Ounsworth, Royal Artillery (part 2)
Media
Title
Interview with L.J. Ounsworth, Royal Artillery (part 2)
Identifier
6651.mp3
GWA_5707_Chapman_-_1B.mp3
Creator
Ounsworth, L.J.
Abstract
Second part of six sections of a recording of a long interview with L.J. Ounsworth, Royal Artillery (interviewer unknown), continues directly from the first part. Length 30 mins approx, includes: his battery - the 2nd Heavy Battery - on the Somme 1916; moving forward he encountered men from the depleted 8th East Yorks. during the advance; and watching the successful cavalry charge of the Deccan Horse (an Indian cavalry regiment) to capture German machine gun positions, the troops were alerted to the location of the machine gunners by a French plane repeatedly diving onto their positions; also witnessed was the unsuccessful attempt by a German officer POW (prisoner of war) to escape, he had taken the rifle of one of the soldiers guarding him and a column of Germans, and then as they all made a break for it the British soldiers around reacted, and the attempt was quelled. Later on Ounsworth received 4 gunshot wounds. Continues directly into the third part.
Date
1916 - 1919
Date Created
1916-01-01
Temporal Coverage
1919-12-31
Spatial Coverage
Unknown
4 Humberdale Close, Swanland, East Yorkshire HU14 3NS
Source
Tape
Medium
Tape
Type
Interview
pages
2
number of pages
6
Contributor
Admin
Alun Edwards (Ferrens Art Gallery, Hull submissions day 31st May 2008)
Mrs S. Chapman
Rights
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
Publisher
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford
account
suechapman@quista.net