03 - We Don't Want To Lose You & I'll Make A Man Of You - Oh! What A Lovely War - Studio Soundtrack

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My great grandfather was twice knighted in the field at the first Battle of the Yser, by direct order of King Albert. Mum was SOE as a result. I was the greenest 14 year old cadet when they prepared this film, I'd spent hours sorting the stores in search of a uniform which fit, at the bottom of a huge pile of WW2 battledress was a big box - dated 1917. I reported back to admin, the Major was on the phone, "No, Dickie, we haven't got any WW1 uniforms. What is it, Rahere, can't you see I'm on the phone? We have? Well, you speak to Mr Attenborough then." Off went th box, I finished basic, Special Orders, be on parade 0630 Saturday outside the School gates, in uniform. So there I was, wondering why, when a parp-parp came down the road, the cast headed to join th London-Brighton Veteran Car Rally, aboard a WW1 charabanc. It was only many years later, working for Win van Eekelen in WEU as a real Staff Colonel that I realised I'd ben used to deliver a message, it's the Snufelkes who don't return.