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Good morning, I'm Ayshah with Thursday's stories. | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
First up, a statue of a nurse, called Mary Seacole is being | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
It's the first one in the UK dedicated to a black woman. | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
Children's author Malorie Blackman, who campaigned for the statue, | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
If anyone deserves a statue, it is Mary Seacole. | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
She was a healer, a businesswoman, and a traveller, which was really | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
Black Britons who have been written out of the history books, | :00:35. | :00:44. | |
I think it is wonderful that we are now beginning | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Go to Newsround online for my full report on Mary Seacole's statue. | :00:48. | :00:56. | |
Next, we've got the incredible story of the 12-year-old | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
Good morning. Yes, it is 100 years since the battle of the sun. Here is | :00:59. | :01:19. | |
a little fact cash it is called that because of the river Somme, which | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
runs through the area where the fighting happens. World War I was a | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
massive war, so it needed a lot of people. Lots of the man who signed | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
up were very young, just teenagers. Some were even younger than that. | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
Sidney Lewis was just 12 years old when he signed up. His son Colin | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
tells us his father's incredible story. | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
When I was a boy, my father told me that he fought in World War I as a | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
soldier will stop and I regret to say that I didn't believe him. After | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
all, he was only -- he would only have been 12 years old at the time. | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
But at just 12, my dad, Sidney George Lewis, decided they did want | :02:01. | :02:09. | |
to join up to fight for his country. Like many young lads, he must have | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
got caught up in the excitement and idea of adventure. That is what he | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
was like. He always wanted to be where the action was. But you had to | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
be 18, a grown-up, to be in the army, so he ran away from home | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
without telling any of his family, and when he was asked when | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
recruitment officer, he lied about his age. It seems incredible now | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
that a 12-year-old could end up in the middle of a world war. | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
So there he was, sent to France to fight for his country. | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
He was sent to fight on the Somme. It must have been a shark for this | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
boy from London, suddenly plunged into the middle of the war. I can't | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
imagine the sort of things he must have seen. -- a shock. | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
The fields weren't fields any more. The war had churned everything | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
Samad, and the sky was black with smoke. -- churned everything to mud. | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
There was no birdsong, no animals. He must have seen a lots of men, a | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
loss of his friends, died. To face all that and keep going, at | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
such a young age, he must have been very brave and very tough boy. | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
Back home, his mum, my grandmother, was worried. The newspapers were | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
full of stories of tens of thousands of men dying in France. She found | :03:49. | :03:59. | |
Sidney's birth certificates, and sent it to the army, demanding that | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
he was sent home straightaway safely, because after all, he was | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
still a kid. But by now, Sidney was right in the middle of fighting in | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
one of the most deadly battles of the Somme. The fighting was so | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
fierce that all but one of the trees were burnt to black stumps, blown to | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
bits by shells and machine gun fire. His mum must have been very worried | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
about him out there, risking his life. With the message to bring him | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
back reach his superiors before it was too late? It would have been a | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
race against time. But it did reach them. Six weeks of fighting in one | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
of the most dangerous battle in the entire war, and Sidney was pulled | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
back from the front line and sent home. | :04:50. | :05:00. | |
That letter which grandmother sent probably saved his life. | :05:01. | :05:10. | |
So my dad, Sidney Lewis, came back. At the age of 12, he joined in one | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
of the deadliest world wars, and a year later, came back alive. | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
Fascinating stuff. You can go to our website for more on this. | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
Just time to tell you about the tennis match | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
British qualifier Marcus Willis has ended his Wimbledon run | :05:30. | :05:41. | |
Willis has called playing Federer a fairy tale. Willis lost out in the | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
second round. He will now take home ?50,000 as prize money. Good for | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
him. Newsround's back on CBBC with Ricky | :05:50. | :05:50. | |
this afternoon at 4:20. Have a great day, and we'll see you | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
soon. Bye-bye. | :05:59. | :05:59. |