Ulster Cenotaph (1921)

Item title reads - Ulster’s Cenotaph to her heroic dead. Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson opens Memorial Tower on Thiepval Battlefields. France. Field Marshal Wilson walks down a line of soldiers and salutes. M/S as the camera pans across military personnel and other guests to the Field Marshal making a speech. L/S of the tower with people outside, the camera pans up it to the top. M/S of clergy doing a service on the steps. M/S of the Field Marshal and others standing watching. M/S of the caretakers of the tower Sergeant Joseph Savage and his French wife. Note: there is a dark patch on the right of the frame, it looks like something might have got in the camera. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes m
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