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This is the trailer for a film created by the production company Just Druid.
Set in 1917, it tells the story of 2nd Lt Glyn Morgan of the Royal Welch Fusiliers who wrote a letter to his dad, the night before "Going over the Top".
The film also includes readings of letters also sent to Glyn's dad by Glyn's comrades from the trenches. These are read by veterans of Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan
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Narration is by Lt General Jonathon Riley CB DSO and archive material by Imperial War Museum. A Poem/quote by the leading poet of WW1, Winfred Owen, who asks how can we remember them ?
The film ends with a series of remembrance projects by the pupils of Glyn Morgan’s old school - Pontypridd High School.
Please see trailer below - This scene is where 2nd Lt Glyn Morgan writes a letter to his dad on the eve of "going over the top" at this infamous battle where 500,000 soldiers died in three months .
The film is intended to inspire the schoolchildren of Wales to find out about their local heroes of WW1 and publish their own work on this website
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