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Women at War: 100 Years of Service

Series 1

Episode 5: Dame Kelly Holmes

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One Scotland HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales HD

Dame Kelly Holmes returns to the army training grounds where she enjoyed a successful career as a physical training instructor during one of the most tumultuous periods in the history of the British Army. As she meets the first woman to become an army commando and a female WWII veteran who drove injured soldiers returning from the battlefield, she also joins the basic training of a batch of male and female recruits starting out on their army careers together.

Kelly also has the opportunity to fulfil a long-held ambition when she takes command of a Challenger 2 tank. Show less

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