THE WESTERN FRONT,1914-1918

[Voltigeur]

12th (Service) Battalion (3rd Hull)
Formed in Hull on 11 August 1914 by Lord Nunburnholme and the East Riding TF Association. Commonly known as the Hull Sportsmen’s Battalion.
8 February 1918 : disbanded in France.
Thanks to; The Long, Long Trail.

© IWM (Q 11546)
Officers of the 12th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment (92nd Brigade, 31st Division) in their mess dug-out, 30 feet underground. Arleux sector, near Roclincourt, 9 January 1918. The smiling officer in the centre is a medical officer attached to the Battalion (see Q 11545).



Notice the three bars of the medical officer.
© IWM (Q 11545)
The RAMC officer, attached to the 12th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment (92nd Brigade, 31st Division), bandaging the face wound of a man of his battalion in the line in the Arleux sector, near Roclincourt, 9 January 1918.




© IWM (Q 10622)
The Medical Officer of the 12th Battalion ,East Yorkshire Regiment conducts a foot inspection in a support trench near Roclincourt, 9 January 1918.

[wardog]

Good pictures, though staged pictures I should think- perhaps they were trying to produce 'a day in the life of an MO'. I thought platoon foot inspections were done by the platoon officer or SNCO. Regards, Paul.

[Jelly Terror]

Originally Posted by wardog

Good pictures, though staged pictures I should think- perhaps they were trying to produce 'a day in the life of an MO'. I thought platoon foot inspections were done by the platoon officer or SNCO. Regards, Paul.

By coincidence, a passage from the book I am currently reading... this extract referring to time on the Somme, with the Machine Gun Corps, in 1916:

'The day passed with the usual parades, inspection of the men for shaving, button-cleaning and general turn-out, inspection of rifles and machine-guns and revolvers, then foot inspection when every man had to rub his feet with whale oil in the presence of an officer to prevent frostbite.'

From 'Twice In A Lifetime' by M. L. Walkington (as recommended by Wilf).

[Voltigeur]

Thanks JT.
Jo

[fairlie63]

Originally Posted by Jelly Terror

By coincidence, a passage from the book I am currently reading... this extract referring to time on the Somme, with the Machine Gun Corps, in 1916:

'The day passed with the usual parades, inspection of the men for shaving, button-cleaning and general turn-out, inspection of rifles and machine-guns and revolvers, then foot inspection when every man had to rub his feet with whale oil in the presence of an officer to prevent frostbite.'

From 'Twice In A Lifetime' by M. L. Walkington (as recommended by Wilf).

Button cleaning in operational areas! I wonder, given the circumstances and general conditions, whether there might have been more imaginative means of occupying men and maintaining discipline than polishing buttons so they stood out wonderfully in action.

[Jelly Terror]

Originally Posted by fairlie63

Button cleaning in operational areas! I wonder, given the circumstances and general conditions, whether there might have been more imaginative means of occupying men and maintaining discipline than polishing buttons so they stood out wonderfully in action.

Agreed. It does seem counter-intuitive.

JT