A series of six programmes in which British men and women recall their unusual or little known lives in uniform. 1: Soldiers of the Queen
Eye-witness accounts by two of the last surviving veterans of a war that was fought 80 years ago during the reign of Queen Victoria. Archie Bowers , 98, was in the West Kent Yeomanry with the RAMC. And William Bilham, 103, was in a private in the RAMC. As a background to their visual stories of the distant battles of the Boer War are war illustrators' pictures from The Sphere, The Graphic and The Illustrated London News.
Stephen Peet 's documentary memorably captured what must be among the last personal memories of an all-too-forgotten war of Empire space.