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Last Trip to Monchy

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War stories are often obscured by sentimentality or heroics. The reality was very different for the men of the 13th Service Battalion, Rifle Brigade, who fought a battle at Monchy-le-Preux, a small rural town in northern France, on 10 April 1917.
The Battalion's Old Comrades Association, founded by BERT THORNE , has been going back to Monchy ever since
In this anniversary programme members tell their own story of a journey - perhaps their last - to see the battlefield and remember old pals for whom April 1917 was their last trip to Monchy.'
Narrator FRED WHITE
Producers LYN MACDONALD
RITCHIE COGAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Bert Thorne
Producers:
Lyn MacDonald
Unknown:
Ritchie Cogan
Source: Radio Times

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