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0021915
Author/Editor: LIDDLE Peter
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Place Published: Barnsley
Year: 2010
Date & Collation: 313pp.illus.index
Description: Book of collected memories from recroded interviews. Henry Moore text from interview conducted by Liddle in May 1980, see 0016529. Text refers to Moore's experiences in the First World War which involved being gassed in 1917 in the aftermath of the Cambrai battle and then of bayonet instructing on the domestic front.
Early life in Castleford. Article on Michelangelo in Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopedia to which the family subscribed in fortnightly parts. Mentions Zepplin over Castleford, Alice Gostick, early teaching experience before going to war. Enrolled voluntarily at the age of eighteen in Civil Service Rifles (compulsory call-up would have been in Yorkshire Light Infantry). First visit to London, and youngest in Regiment. In trenches at Cambrai 1917, after training on Wimbledon Common. Moore as a Lewis gunner. Gassed by lifting uncomfortable gas mask to see if the air was clear. I meant to do the best I could to win a medal...it was an adventure I enjoyed it all". Hospitalised in Wales Moore was drawing whenever he could. Picked as Physical Training instructor at Aldershot specialising in bayonet instruction. Armistice celebration in London although returned to France prior to demobilisation in March or April 1919.
Inscribed in manuscript "One of two recordings made with Peter Liddle". (It is believed that the original 1979 recording was inaudible so that the interview was conducted again in 1980).
For transcript of 1979 tape see 0018679. Book also features illus of Moore in army uniform c.1917."
Early life in Castleford. Article on Michelangelo in Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopedia to which the family subscribed in fortnightly parts. Mentions Zepplin over Castleford, Alice Gostick, early teaching experience before going to war. Enrolled voluntarily at the age of eighteen in Civil Service Rifles (compulsory call-up would have been in Yorkshire Light Infantry). First visit to London, and youngest in Regiment. In trenches at Cambrai 1917, after training on Wimbledon Common. Moore as a Lewis gunner. Gassed by lifting uncomfortable gas mask to see if the air was clear. I meant to do the best I could to win a medal...it was an adventure I enjoyed it all". Hospitalised in Wales Moore was drawing whenever he could. Picked as Physical Training instructor at Aldershot specialising in bayonet instruction. Armistice celebration in London although returned to France prior to demobilisation in March or April 1919.
Inscribed in manuscript "One of two recordings made with Peter Liddle". (It is believed that the original 1979 recording was inaudible so that the interview was conducted again in 1980).
For transcript of 1979 tape see 0018679. Book also features illus of Moore in army uniform c.1917."