Black Watch veteran recalls the horrors of Monte Cassino
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5 ай бұрынA previously unpublished audio recording of a Second World War veteran recounting his time fighting in one of the bloodiest battles of the Italian campaign has been uncovered.
During World War Two, Arthur Helps was an infantry signaller in the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) when his battalion took part in the battle to capture Monte Cassino.
Two years prior to his death in 2000, Mr Helps visited a school in York, where he lived, and spoke to the children about his time in Italy.
Audio recorded by one of his daughters who was at the school has finally been uncovered.
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@uktenatsila9168 5 ай бұрын
Love the Gurkhas! Love the accounts and remembrance of old warriors.
@bac1111967 5 ай бұрын
My father was there. He was shot in the legs a through and through I believe. I collect films like this in case I can see him. He passed away with cancer in 1966.
@tigertiger1699 5 ай бұрын
🌹🌹🌹🌹
@Oligodendrocyte139 5 ай бұрын
Hi. Have you been through the IWM collection?
@Posttraumaticgrowth 5 ай бұрын
🙏🙏🏽🙏🏻
@waynestillman8080 5 ай бұрын
The best generation this country ever produced and have to be so grateful for. I thank our armed forces 🙏 every day from ww1 ww2. My personal experience was kosovo,afgan and Iraq. Some of my closest family and friends went, some came back (sort of) and my closest cousin was killed last day of his patrol before going back to fob return to bastion and back home. That was when people first started lining the streets every time a soldier went past,lowered flags etc. Really heart wretched just thinking about that day he come home in that box.
@SodaPrezsing 5 ай бұрын
Love that anecdote on the Gurkhas 👍
@adamcmaxbreakers 5 ай бұрын
My Grandad was there with 2nd parachute Sqn Royal Engineers. The only injury he received was of the mind. He was never the same after Greece, Palestine and Cassino
@guy-on-a-ch 5 ай бұрын
Horrific
@mainemanc1 5 ай бұрын
Poland took the monastery
@nocode1603 5 ай бұрын
The black watch I was a proud dad of a seving 3 Scots jock. Made him the man he is today.....🏴💪🇬🇧
@s.l669 5 ай бұрын
R.I.P ❤
@Backwardlooking 5 ай бұрын
Poor chaps. A horrific campaign.
@tigertiger1699 5 ай бұрын
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@robertwoodroffe123 3 ай бұрын
Couldn’t shut my dad up / his favourite subject! Point 202 ! 18/03/1944’ >
@knutclau705 5 ай бұрын
Montecassino was the last WWl battle in WWll...
@robertthomas3777 5 ай бұрын
How is it the Poles took it? Lots of prior softening up? Great reporting.
@JW-2023 5 ай бұрын
The film doesn't say anything to the contrary
@moominpic 29 күн бұрын
923 Polish soldiers were killed in the fighting, with 2,931 wounded and 345 reported missing. Not that softened.
@jimohara 5 ай бұрын
What an awful waste of men
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