Captain W H Wilson Showcases the War Memorial Museum

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Captain W H Wilson Showcases the War Memorial Museum

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Location

Belfast, Belfast City Centre

Year

1963

Date

Production 28/10/1963

Length

05min 27sec

Audio

sound

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcast Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

Footage of Captain W H Wilson conducting a tour of the War Memorial Museum for Ulster Television viewers.

Captain W. H. Wilson served in the Middle East, Burma and Italy with the Hong Kong and Singapore Royal Artillery during the Second World War. In July 1949 he succeeded Major Longley as Organising Secretary of the NIWM Building Fund, becoming honorary Secretary two years later. He was at the forefront of fundraising efforts for the building throughout the 1950s and later oversaw the compiling of names of the dead for the Rolls of Honour. Outside his work for NIWM, he was Regional Officer in Northern Ireland for the Independent Television Authority from 1959-1967 and helped organise the first Lord Mayor’s show in Belfast in 1956. This film shows him providing a press tour of the new War Memorial building on Waring Street, Belfast, in late October 1963.  

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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