Casualties
Category : Wars and Conflict
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Casualties
Numbers too vast to imagine. Wounds too ghastly to contemplate. Death as close as the next cigarette. Images too seared on the brain to erase. In thier own words veterans recall the horrors they witnessed.
The accompanying photograph shows James Pierce of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Pierce a farm labourer from Carlow was wounded in April 1915 and invalided out of the army a year later.
The image is reproduced here courtesy of Sandra Rimmer.
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Dr Charles Dickson returns to the site of the Battle of the Somme and recalls the horrors he witnessed fifty years earlier. - Video 02:35
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Few soldiers survived the war unscathed. Jimmy O'Brien of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers describes how he was shot in battle at Ypres. - Audio 01:36
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A veteran of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers tells how he was injured in a shell explosion at Oppy Wood which killed his three companions. - Audio 02:23
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Jack Campbell describes the frightening experience of being gassed at the Somme. - Video 03:29
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Jack King describes horrific scenes of dead soldiers being buried on battlefileds only for the corpses to be blown up again later. - Audio 01:16
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Edgar Poulter recalls being told by an officer that mules were more valuable than men, as dead men could easily be replaced, but mules were ... - Audio 01:09
Casualties
Category: Wars and Conflict
CLOSERecalling The Horrors of Battle
Dr Charles Dickson returns to the site of the Battle of the Somme and recalls the horrors he witnessed fifty years earlier.
- Production Year 1966
- ContributorPeter Kennerly (Director)
Chris Curran (Narrator)
John Skehan (Military Commentator)
Brian Cleeve (Script)
Ken Murphy (Camera)
Shot At Ypres
Few soldiers survived the war unscathed. Jimmy O'Brien of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers describes how he was shot in battle at Ypres.
- Production Year 1974
- ContributorKieran Sheedy (Producer)
Tom McGurk (Presenter)
"I Got Blown Out Sky High"
A veteran of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers tells how he was injured in a shell explosion at Oppy Wood which killed his three companions.
- Production Year 1974
- ContributorKieran Sheedy (Producer)
Tom McGurk (Presenter)
"I Began To Get Sick Into Me Gas Mask"
Jack Campbell describes the frightening experience of being gassed at the Somme.
- Production Year 1988
- ContributorGay Byrne (Presenter)
"I Would Never Like To See It Again Anyway"
Jack King describes horrific scenes of dead soldiers being buried on battlefileds only for the corpses to be blown up again later.
- Production Year 1984
- ContributorJim Fahy (Presenter)
"You Might Get The Mules Killed"
Edgar Poulter recalls being told by an officer that mules were more valuable than men, as dead men could easily be replaced, but mules were scarce.
- Production Year 1984
- ContributorKieran Sheedy (Producer)
Tom McGurk (Presenter)