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WW1 A to Z - B is for Battalions

Newsreel and commentary describe the British approach to recruitment through the formation of β€˜Pals’ Battalions’ where friends and neighbours joined up together. A dramatic monologue introduces Private Fred Prescott, who describes his initial training along with his mates in the β€˜Barnsley Pals’. Fred is nineteen years old. We follow him to the front line, where he is about to go into battle for the first time.

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