Interviews with WWI Veterans

Details

Location

Belfast

Year

1981

Date

Production 19/02/1981

Length

22min 02sec

Audio

sound

Format

16mm

colour

Source

Digitised as part of the UTV Archive Partnership Project (ITV, Northern Ireland Screen and PRONI)

Courtesy

Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

It is illegal to download, copy, print or otherwise utilise in any other form this material, without written consent from the copyright holder.

Description

Inserts of interviews with World War One veterans for an episode of Good Evening Ulster.

Sixty-five years after the Battle of the Somme, three veterans are interviewed about their experiences of the war.

Albert, a former Cheif Petty Officer and Gunnery Instructor on HMS Caroline speaks about the Battle of Jutland, escorting naval ships, and the threat of submarines.

Colonel Burke Murphy talks about conditions in the trenches in Winter 1916, cases of frostbite, and the Battle of the Somme

A third veteran recalls life in the trenches, the allied offence, and hand-to-hand combat.

 

Credits

 Director: Andy Crockart
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