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Description
Mr. Ford describes being gassed, its long-term effects, and his eventual recovery.
Transcription
This is the shell gas, you know, and it took my eyes, my breathing, sickened my stomach. So I just had to be pulled out of the trenches, that’s all, and taken down to Camerse (sp) General hospital there. They looked after me. But I wasn’t bad enough that they didn’t send me over to England. I was always wanting to get a blighty, I called a blighty. The doc says, “God, there’s so many casualties coming through, Ford,” he said, “I think probably a little treatment here will fix you up alright.” But as I pointed out to you, I still had it in my system long after I come home. You know, wherever I perspired that yellow ... but I went to a specialist here, a blood specialist. And I got treated with a B12, I think. It was about three or four times a week, and it sort of brought me back. Then, I took part a lot in sports. So with my perspiring, I pretty well got it out of my system.
Catégories
Whenever I perspired, it was yellow.
Médium
Video
Propriétaire
Veterans Affairs Canada
Guerre ou mission
First World War
Emplacement géographique
Europe
Personne interviewée
George R. Ford
Branche
Army
Unité ou navire
103rd Infantry Battalion
Military Rank
Private
Occupation
Trench Mortar
Durée
1:13