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[…]her one and I went back some years ago and I saw an old chap digging in his garden and I was talking to him and I said Do you by any chance remember Frank Allen.SPEAKER: F10He said good heavens yes he said in 1914 we went off to war together and I thought that was a marvellous you know a recollectio[…]
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[…]nbsp; But I rang them to say, you know, I did pull a bit of family rank in that sense, the onlytime I’ve ever done it in my life, but it was too important not to do, and said look, I want to go into film, these are th[…]
[…]my Gilbert: not at all, apart from continuing to play the piano anywhere given half the chance, in any music bar as well in America.John Taylor: What rank were you then.Jimmy Gilbert: pilot officer and then it was automatic flight lieutenant. I was on first of all as a sort of observer, second pilot[…]
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[…] that we were very hopeful might get onto newsreel was the interviews that we filmed with prisoners. German officers and Italian officers and Italian rank and file, captured by the Republicans. We recorded a question and answer session of them being cross-examined on film. This was very important, b[…]
