Title:INTERVIEW WITH C E PAINTER [Allocated Title]
Film Number:RHC 25
Other titles:INTERVIEWS WITH IN-PENSIONERS AT THE ROYAL HOSPITAL, CHELSEA [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: C Painter was a member of The Middlesex Regiment, and talks about his service in Russia, the First World War and China.
Description: Mr Painter describes his experiences as a boy soldier from 1916 In the Middlesex Regiment and his training as a Lewis machine gunner. He went with his regiment to Murmansk in 1920 as part of a force which had the job of clearing Bolshevik parties from 600 miles of railway line - marching nearly all the way to Petrograd. Later he operated a Lewis gun on an armoured train in Russia.
Mr Painter then served in the German Army of Occupation until 1924, and in 1928 he went to Hong Kong with the Middlesex Regiment as a bandsman: he describes his experiences as part of the international garrison of Shanghai.
(Tape also contains a brief interview with B J Hogarth DCM MM.)
Alternative Title:INTERVIEWS WITH IN-PENSIONERS AT THE ROYAL HOSPITAL, CHELSEA [Allocated Series Title]
