Billy Draper (aged 101), of Haslinton, interviewed September 1996 by Grant Smith, recorded on VHS video. Draper was a private in 19th Company RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps), a unit known as “The Whalley Pals”. 9.51 mins duration, chapter 9 of 11: film of photographs of memorabilia of the Whalley Pals, includes women wearing a blouse and tie behind the uniformed soldiers with a Red Cross badge on their arms and soldiers in hospital blue uniforms / a Pierrot theatre or music troupe with a leading lady (played by a man) entertaining the troops / a soldier with a bugle leaning at ease against a wall [Billy Draper?] / portrait photos include: one dated 15/12/1916; “Sgt Frank Davis - ‘Bobby Bingle’”; a bugler playing a call; Percy Loftus; bandmaster / reunion book menu “The ‘Whalley Boys’ Association R.A.M.C. 19th Company - re-union dinner, Bull Hotel, Blackburn October 4 1958 / band marching through a town in northern England / men and boys in front of bell tents / reunion photos of elderly men. Postcards include: La France recconquise (1917) Peronne, British bicycle troops with a small car or motorcycle and sidecar, postcards of Peronne in ruins, 1917 / Albert 1914-1915, Paris Hotel de Ville postcard (inscribed on back to Mrs J. Draper, Haslingden near Manchester, stamped Paris 22 XII 1915) / Paris postcard (inscribed on back to Pte G. Draper, 23079, R.A.M.C. 105th Field Ambulance, B.E.F., France, stamped 19 Nov 1916) / Malo-Les-Bains beach / Saint Omer; Wattendam, Les Ecluses; Maizieres, P-de-C (Pas de Calais) / Kortrijk / reunion book menu “The ‘Whalley Boys’ Association R.A.M.C. 19th Company - re-union dinner, Bull Hotel, Blackburn October 5 1957 which includes cartoons of the medic treating wounded soldiers in the field.

Film of memorabilia