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Contrasts: Recollections of Rifleman Harris

on BBC One London

A series of music and arts features.
[Starring] Alan Dobie
Illustrations from: Goya 'Disasters of War', The Rifle Brigade Museum, The National Army Museum, Contemporary Sketchbooks in the British Museum
Drummers by courtesy of The Commandant, The Royal Military School of Music Kneller Hall

'I saw', says Rifleman Harris, 'one man faint with loss of blood, staggering along, and turned to assist him. He was severely wounded in the head, his face being completely encrusted with blood which had flowed during the night and had now dried. One eyeball was knocked out of the socket and hung down upon his cheek'.
A recollection from the battlefield of Vimiero during the Peninsular War.

Contributors

Producer:
Richard Argent
Rifleman Harris:
Alan Dobie

BBC One London

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