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Queen Honours Some Heroes

Date released

7 Jul 1966

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

66/54

NoS ID

112141

Story no

4 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

The Queen and Prince Philip pay tribute to the heroes of the Somme at the Balmoral Showground when they reviewed 1,500 Ulster veterans at a drumhead service to mark the 50th anniversary of the battle. Pathe...

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Daughter the younger (1988)

Genre

Documentary; Interview; Poetry

Sean Street talks to Myfanwy Thomas, daughter of Edward Thomas, poet who died during the Battle of the Somme in World War One when she was a young girl. On her father, his poetry and family life. Includes...

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Ww1 Western Front (1999 Video)

aka: Western Front - Ww1, The

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1999 sale: £52.88 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Concentrates on the Western Front where all the major combatants believed the war would be won or lost. After four years of conflict and nine million casualties, it was won by the Entente. Covers: the...

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Tanks: Wonder Weapons of Ww1? (1995 Video)

Producer

Helen Bettinson

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 35 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive) (retail) 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) (BBC)

Broadcast on BBC2 on 12/11/95.

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: The 51st Returns

Date released

25 Dec 1944

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

812

NoS ID

013329

Story no

4 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: 51st HD Celebrate at St Valery. DESCRIPTION: The 51st Highland Division recently held a special parade at St Valery on the Somme to pay honour to those who fell in the rear guard action...

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World War I (1996 Multimedia)

Subject

History

Distribution

CD-ROM

An archive of World War 1 material with commentary, presented in a series of documented case studies covering the chronology of the war (orogins, Eastern Europe, the war at sea and in the air, the home...

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Our kind of town (1979)

Genre

Interview; Special

Our Kind of Town. Keith Howell hosts this episode (Old Soldiers Never Die?) in which 84 year-old World War I survivor Charlie Garrard(?) shares his recollections of the War. Rose Coombs, Special Collections...

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Great War, The, Series (1964 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £ 99

A definitive history of the 1914-1918 war, narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave and employing the voice skills of other leading actors including Sir Ralph Richardson (as Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig) and...

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Western Front, The (1999 Video)

Director

Steven Clarke; Keith Sheather

Producer

Mark Fielder

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col/b&w. 180 min., 2000 sale: £17.99 (inclusive)

Series in which military historian Richard Holmes examines how World War 1 was fought in trenches, forts and bunkers, with the aim of highlighting the contrasts on the battlefields where ‘ancient ideas of...

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Restoring 'The Battle of the Somme'

Date

12 Aug 2014, 11:26

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Article

Filmed warfare was a new phenomenon at the time of the First World War and it was months before the British authorities allowed cameramen up to the front line. David Walsh of the Imperial War Museum...

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