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Yesterday's Witness S14 E01 Soldiers of the Queen
Overview
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. Ninety-eight-year-old Archie Bowers was in the West Kent Yeomanry and 102-year-old Bill Bilham was with the RAMC. As a background to their vivid stories of the distant battles of the Boer War are illustrators' pictures from The Sphere, The Graphic and The Illustrated London News