With Heart and Hand: 16th Irish Division Veteran

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Details

Location

Year

1966

Date

Length

03min 28sec

Audio

sound

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

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

Courtesy

Department for Communities, ITV, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

The Battles of Guillemont (3rd -6th September 1916) and Ginchy (9th Sept 1916), were part of the second phase of the long and brutal Somme Offensive.

In this short interview edited from a compilation of rushes recorded by Ulster Television in 1966, a 16th (Irish) Division veteran recalls the intensity of the fighting and reflects on the tactics used in what some consider to be the German Army’s supreme effort on the Western Front during World War 1. The interviewee has been identified as Sir James Steele, who served on the Western Front from 1915-1917. He later reached the rank of General and is remembered with a memorial in his home village of Ballycarry, Co. Antrim.