Interview with L.J. Ounsworth, Royal Artillery (part 2)

Second part of six sections of a recording of a long interview with L.J. Ounsworth, Royal Artillery (interviewer unknown), continues directly from the first part. Length 30 mins approx, includes: his battery - the 2nd Heavy Battery - on the Somme 1916; moving forward he encountered men from the depleted 8th East Yorks. during the advance; and watching the successful cavalry charge of the Deccan Horse (an Indian cavalry regiment) to capture German machine gun positions, the troops were alerted to the location of the machine gunners by a French plane repeatedly diving onto their positions; also witnessed was the unsuccessful attempt by a German officer POW (prisoner of war) to escape, he had taken the rifle of one of the soldiers guarding him and a column of Germans, and then as they all made a break for it the British soldiers around reacted, and the attempt was quelled. Later on Ounsworth received 4 gunshot wounds. Continues directly into the third part.