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The Great War (TV Series)
''The Great War'' is a 26-episode documentary series from 1964 on the First World War. The documentary was a co-production of the Imperial War Museum, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Commission. The narrator was Michael Redgrave, with readings by Marius Goring, Ralph Richardson, Cyril Luckham, Sebastian Shaw (actor), Sebastian Shaw and Emlyn Williams. Each episode is long. Production In August 1963, at the suggestion of Alasdair Milne, producer of the BBC's current affairs programme Tonight (1957 TV series), ''Tonight'', the BBC resolved to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War with a big television project. The series was the first to feature veterans, many of them still relatively fit men in their late sixties or early seventies, speaking of their experiences after a public appeal for veterans was published in the national press. Thos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Terraine
John Alfred Terraine (15 January 1921 – 28 December 2003 ''The Independent'', 23 January 2004) was an English military historian, and a TV screenwriter. He is best known as the lead screenwriter for the landmark 1960s BBC-TV documentary ''The Great War (documentary), The Great War'', about the First World War, and for his defence of British General Douglas Haig – who commanded the British Expeditionary Force (World War I), British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front (World War I), Western Front from late 1915 until the end of the war – against charges that he was "The Butcher of the Battle of the Somme, Somme".obituary 31 December 2003. ''The Telegraph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Irish Rifles Ration Party Somme July 1916
Royal may refer to: People * Royal (name), a list of people with either the surname or given name * A member of a royal family Places United States * Royal, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Royal, Illinois, a village * Royal, Iowa, a city * Royal, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Royal, Nebraska, a village * Royal, Franklin County, North Carolina, an unincorporated area * Royal, Utah, a ghost town * Royal, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Royal Gorge, on the Arkansas River in Colorado * Royal Township (other) Elsewhere * Mount Royal, a hill in Montreal, Canada * Royal Canal, Dublin, Ireland * Royal National Park, New South Wales, Australia Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Royal'' (Jesse Royal album), a 2021 reggae album * ''The Royal'', a British medical drama television series * ''The Royal Magazine'', a monthly British literary magazine published between 1898 and 1939 * ''Royal'' (Indian magazine), a men's lifestyle bimonthly * Royal Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egbert Cadbury
Major (Honorary Air Commodore) Sir Egbert "Bertie" Cadbury (20 April 1893 – 12 January 1967) was a British businessman, a member of the Cadbury family, who as a First World War pilot shot down two Zeppelins over the North Sea: ''LZ 61 (L 21), L.21'' on 28 November 1916, and ''Zeppelin LZ 112, L.70'' on 6 August 1918: the latter while flying a Airco DH.4, De Havilland DH.4 with Robert Leckie (RCAF officer), Robert Leckie as observer/gunner. Early life and background Egbert Cadbury was born in Selly Oak, Birmingham, the youngest son of George Cadbury and his second wife Elizabeth Cadbury, and the grandson of John Cadbury, John, the founder the Cadbury, family business. A year after he was born the family moved to a new home, Northfield Manor House, in Northfield, Birmingham. He was educated at Leighton Park School in Reading, Berkshire, Reading, then went to Trinity College, Cambridge to study economics. First World War The Cadburys were Quakers, and thus Peace Testimony, pacifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
