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- [1982?] [date recorded]
CALL NUMBER: T3880:0012 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The misery of World War I : [tape 1] RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), [1982?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Background; enlistment; discovery of the meaning of war in France; to Russia, near Smolensk; hospital; to the Carpathians. [TRACK 2: blank?]
CALL NUMBER: T3880:0013 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The misery of World War I : [tape 2] RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), [1982?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discovering Russian guns; hit; withdrawing; new observation point; dead soldiers; wounded; six weeks in hospital in Warmbrunn, Germany; parents on a diet of turnips; France 1918; officers; food; political situation. Seeing apocalyptic riders; hospital; the Spanish flu; interpreter; battlefield. TRACK 2: Taken prisoner; retaliation camp; camp in Rouen; six feet tall, weighing 90 pounds; cleaning up the battlefields; a prisoner until 1921; hunger blockade continued for six months after the armistice. Emigration in 1928; details of Moreux in 1918; memories returning in dreams; poem.