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This is the first statue in the UK dedicated to a black woman - | :00:11. | :00:22. | |
it's of a nurse called Mary Seacole and was unveiled earlier today. | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
This is the place in London where people | :00:25. | :00:34. | |
who fought and helped in the | :00:35. | :00:35. | |
For a long time, people have been arguing that | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
a nurse called Mary Seacole should be remembered somewhere, too. | :00:40. | :00:49. | |
Now she has been given a statue outside | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
Children's author Malorie Blackman is one of the people who campaigned | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
If anyone deserves a statue, it's Mary Seacole. | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
She was a healer, businesswoman and traveller. | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
It was really rare for a women in Victorian times. | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
are not everyone is happy about it. Something I was statue should not be | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
in front of a hospital because she is not a trained nurse. It also | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
thinks she overshadows nightingale. Malorie Blackman thinks she is very | :01:23. | :01:30. | |
important to British history. People like Mary Seacole, black Britons who | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
have been written out of the history books. I think it is wonderful we | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
are now beginning to realise their achievements. It also shows that | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
people of colour are part and parcel of Britain's history and history | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
belongs to everybody. Now there is a statue of her it is hoped that more | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
people will remember the life and times of Mary Seacole. | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
Tomorrow is the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme - | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
one of the deadliest battles of World War One, where more | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
than a million soldiers died or were wounded. | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
Many of them were young men or teenagers. | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
Sidney Lewis was just 12 years old when he signed up to fight. | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
His son Colin told us his father's incredible story. | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
When I was a boy, my father told me that he fought in World War I as | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
I regret to say that I did not believe him. | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
After all, he would only have been 12-years-old at the time. | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
At just 12, my dad Sidney George Lewis decide that he did want | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
Like many young lads, he must've got caught up | :02:42. | :02:53. | |
in the excitement and idea of the adventure. | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
That is what he was like, he always wanted to be | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
But you had to be 18 and grown up to be in the Army. | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
He ran away from home without telling any of his family | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
and when he was asked by the recruitment | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
It seems incredible now that a 12-year-old could end up in the | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
So there he was, sent to France to fight for his country. | :03:12. | :03:21. | |
It must have been a shock for this boy from London, suddenly | :03:22. | :03:32. | |
I can't imagine the sort of things he must've seen. | :03:33. | :03:43. | |
The fields weren't fields any more, they had turned | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
everything to mud and the sky was black with smoke. | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
He must have seen a lot of men, a lot of his friends die. | :03:51. | :04:05. | |
To face all of that and keep going at such a young age, he | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
must have been a very brave and very tough boy. | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
Back home his mum, my grandmother, was worried. | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
The newspapers were full of stories about tens of thousands of men dying | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
She found his birth certificate and sent it straight off | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
to the Army and demanded that he be sent home straightaway safely. | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
But by now Sidney was right in the middle of | :04:35. | :04:44. | |
the fighting one of the deadliest battles of the Somme. | :04:45. | :04:53. | |
Fighting was so fierce that all but one of the | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
trees were burnt to blank stumps and blown to bits by shells | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
His mum must have been very worried about him out there | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
Would the message to bring him back reach his superiors | :05:04. | :05:19. | |
It would have been a race against time. | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
Six weeks of fighting in one of the most | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
dangerous battles of the entire war and Sidney | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
was pulled back from the | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
That letter which grandmother sent probably saved his life. | :05:30. | :05:45. | |
At the age of 12 he joined in one of the | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
deadliest world wars and a year later came back alive. | :05:54. | :06:02. | |
For those of you who love some bling, check out this | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
It failed to sell at auction after bids | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
?8 million less than what it was expected to sell for. | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
The Lesedi La Rona is the size of a tennis ball - | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
and is believed to be more than two and a half billion years old. | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
There will be much more to mark the anniverary of that battle | :06:24. | :06:27. |