Calling Blighty
Calling Blighty
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Do you know anyone who featured in the “Calling Blighty” films? The recorded messages were made by servicemen and women serving in the Far East during the Second World War. Now the North West Film Archive wants to trace any surviving veterans - and the families of those who appear - ahead of a commemorative screening. | BBC Manchester
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"This is grand to be able to speak to you like this!" This short film is from an extraordinary collection called Calling Blighty, in which armed forces personnel stationed in India and the Far East during the Second World War recorded messages to be sent back home. Here men from the South Lancashire Regiment stationed in India, are given a few seconds each to record a message that 12 weeks later would have been screened for their loved ones back home in local Manchester cinemas. Somewhat like a
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