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BBC North West Regional Documentaries: Record Detail

Accession Number

B10

Series Title

NORTH WEST AT WAR

Programme Title

THE NAVY

Producer

[Unknown]

Other Credits

[Unknown]

Transmission Date

01/01/79

 

colour , sound, 12 mins 52 secs

Synopsis

Extracts from a programme made as a tribute to the North West men who gave their lives during World War Two. A ceremony is shown outside Liverpool Anglican cathedral, attended by men in Navy uniforms and a military brass band. There is archive footage of men in a submarine during WW2, the battleship H.M.S. Barham being sunk by a German submarine in the Mediterranean in 1941, Captain Frederic John Walker, the most successful anti-submarine warfare commander during the Battle of the Atlantic, returning to Liverpool on HMS Starling a war hero and two German ex-officers speaking about wartime conditions on the u-boats. Also includes stills of Walker's funeral in 1944 and present day footage of men from Walker's Association at an annual ceremony at Bootle's war memorial.