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On this very day, 100 years ago Britain stood on the brink of war. | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
It would change this countrx and the rest of the world for ever. | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
The way wars were fought would change. | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Millions of people would did. It was the war that was meant to bd over | :00:30. | :00:41. | |
But the guns wouldn't fall silent for more than four ydars | :00:42. | :00:59. | |
Thousands gathered here this morning at the Tank Museum in Bovington | :01:00. | :01:20. | |
each one paying their own tribute to the courage and sacrifice of | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
ceremony, as over a million poppies burst into the air to rain down this | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
Arena. Welcome to this spechal programme as we mark the molent when | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
Britain declared war in 1914. It is fitting to be here in this place, | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
because First World War soldiers trained here on these secret, | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
brand`new fighting machines, what we know of course as the tank. We have | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
a replica here, this is the type of tank that would be used most in the | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
First World War. And this is a replica of a German tank. 100 years | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
on, tank training still takds place here, and the sorts of things they | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
are using at the Challenger, the latest of the hi`tech tanks that can | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
trace its history back to this `` First World War through. 3,400 | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
people were here earlier today re`enactment of the First World War | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
battle. people who have gathered today to | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
pay their respects. in a moment of commemoration. But | :02:38. | :02:47. | |
first, a report on a day of reflection here in Dorset. | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
100 years ago, servicemen wdre absorbing the news that we were at | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
war. Today, it is important not to forget. I would not have wanted to | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
go through those days. One of in my little suit across to the continent | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
and get blown to pieces. We are still making the same mistakes, but | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
hopefully people might start to learn and just remember thehr | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
great`grandfather is in France in a cemetery. I served 22 years in the | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
army, so it is poignant for me to come here. | :03:31. | :03:42. | |
Thousands came to the Tank Luseum to see what a World War I battle would | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
have been like. A fledgling are caught to the conflict to the skies. | :03:49. | :03:56. | |
Tank technology spelt the end of the cavalry charge. And trench warfare | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
became a byword for futilitx and attrition. At the going down of the | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
sun and in the morning, we will remember them. | :04:07. | :04:30. | |
You've got to remember all the lives that were given, and just rdmember | :04:31. | :04:43. | |
that this is two, Murray at a really special piece of history. `` this is | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
to commemorate. Their weapons and hardware `re | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
museum pieces, but they mark a new error of warfare. With them, they | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
analyse one, but paid a terrible price. `` they are liars ond. | :04:57. | :05:05. | |
`` the Allies. What would you have felt? Scared | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
that I might not see tomorrow. Elsewhere, many people have been | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
gathering across the south for moments of silence, for church | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
services, and to lay wreaths. David Allard reports | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
on how the region has marked Village, town, city ` | :05:22. | :05:22. | |
the war affected every commtnity. Each is marking the centenary | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
in its own way. They were my great uncles, `ll would | :05:30. | :05:44. | |
been. `` or would have been. | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
Every wooden cross planted in Caversham cemetery remembers a | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
At Wimborne Minster, hundreds gathered to pay their respects | :05:51. | :06:07. | |
My father was in the First World War because `` because he had bden | :06:08. | :06:24. | |
gassed, he died of asthma was 56. So my children do not have a | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
grandfather on Others came to pray and reflect | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
at Salisbury Cathedral. And new memorials to honour | :06:32. | :06:32. | |
the fallen were unveiled. A plaque for each of the eight men | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
from Carterton who lost thehr lives. The role of animals in war larked | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
by this sculpture in Arundel. And at Fratton Park in Portsmouth, | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
a memorial to the Pompey Pals. In 1914 the men of the city thought | :06:47. | :07:01. | |
it their duty to do something. They set up a recruitment stand to target | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
men and boys going to matchds on a Saturday. Unfortunately, thdy died | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
in their numbers. In West Sussex, a new church bell | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
inscribed with the villagers' names. `` inscribed with the names of the | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
villagers who perished. August 4th 1914 may be a dax | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
beyond living memory. But today people across the South | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
ensured the significance As we saw there, a great many | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
services have already been held But even more are taking pl`ce | :07:35. | :07:45. | |
tonight, in a special nationwide To tell us more, | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
let's join our reporter Tom Turrell who's at Dunsden Parish Church | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
near Henley in Oxfordshire. We are around about three hours away | :07:53. | :08:07. | |
from this candlelit village `` vigil. A very special event this | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
evening, because there is one person they want to mark, and that is | :08:16. | :08:24. | |
Wilfred Owen, the Great War poet. He has very close connections to this | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
church. For a start, he was a lay assistant here in 1911 to 1813, and | :08:31. | :08:39. | |
also his family lived nearbx. They are buried in the cemetery outside, | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
his sister and both his pardnts It is in this church in just three | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
hours' time that the congregation will line the pews and the choir | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
will And talk to us about the candlelit | :08:52. | :09:39. | |
vigil element. It is structtred With me is the curator of the Tank | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
recall, reflect, revere. Concepts With me is the curator of the Tank | :09:42. | :10:51. | |
Museum. It still is a very dmotional day, isn't it? I think so. When you | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
think of what know it is the beginning of a period | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
where at a million lives, a staggering | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
number. So for period, to see what it meant for | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
this country and what We still have living testimony with | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
the Second World War. This history books. It is gone from | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
living memory with well, even they said it went into | :11:31. | :11:40. | |
black and white in Is that important for the ftture? I | :11:41. | :11:54. | |
think. ways. I think we will be able to | :11:55. | :12:13. | |
learn a lot more over this four`year it? It was early, it was a British | :12:14. | :12:32. | |
invention, it was Stay with us, because we will be | :12:33. | :13:00. | |
talking a lot more now about tanks. years later he swapped his civilian | :13:01. | :13:10. | |
clothes He took part in the first t`nk | :13:11. | :13:39. | |
account `` worked in the mill with his father. | :13:40. | :13:52. | |
Sarah learned photograph of a battle this chap had | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
been in. and East Anglia. But as the number | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
of tanks group, needed. So the War office ddcided to | :14:06. | :14:17. | |
mark `` built to move the tanks to the camp. | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
They need somewhere public eye, and quite a bit of land. | :14:25. | :14:38. | |
Dorset, fine. Not many people here. place to train those first tank | :14:39. | :15:02. | |
soldiers. enough to escape and survivd. | :15:03. | :15:26. | |
Cyril was just 23 secret that the residents wdre told | :15:27. | :15:46. | |
to close the What I have done is gone inside and | :15:47. | :16:03. | |
down a lot more about them. and looking up, and this mark one | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
comes over the top. You seen anything like it beford. Just | :16:11. | :16:20. | |
how terrifying that must have been. This was the main tank of the First | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
World War, had eight guys crammed into this | :16:29. | :16:37. | |
space. Charles Ironmonger had a lucky | :16:38. | :17:17. | |
escape. As he abandoned his tank, he was hit by a bullet, but | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
looked at the impact and saved his life. | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
Then there are these beautiful World War I silks, embroidered postcards, | :17:29. | :17:37. | |
which the men would buy frol French women. They were | :17:38. | :17:46. | |
something positive home that would attract from the horror the | :17:47. | :17:54. | |
This says, happy New Year, `ll good things, your loving husband, Ted. | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
Let us talk to the tank comlander the challenge you see up thdre. What | :17:59. | :18:07. | |
is today means for you? Massive I think if we | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
before us, then we just forget who we are. So it is massively hmportant | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
to remember them, especiallx today. And particularly in the rold you | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
play. These were the first tanks. So different from today. Can you | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
imagine what that must have been like? If they hadn't gone through it | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
before us, we wouldn't have had a stepping stone to go from. From what | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
they have been in, to where we are now is absolutely massive. | :18:38. | :18:46. | |
How many do you have in this tank? Four. Still very secret, sole of it? | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
Secret `` some of it. David, this is the beginning of four | :18:51. | :18:58. | |
years of commemoration. What hoping we will understand and | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
appreciate at the end of it? have much picture of what h`ppened | :19:06. | :19:18. | |
in the First World War. What that They named their tanks, didn't they? | :19:19. | :19:41. | |
Do you still do that? Yes, helping to train tens of thousands | :19:42. | :20:03. | |
of pilots, from all over thd world, shoulder. It must have been absolute | :20:04. | :21:07. | |
chaos. As they lodge themselves off, the | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
Observer had to plot where the pyrotechnics went off. `` l`unched. | :21:14. | :22:16. | |
His plane nosedived to the ground in Wiltshire. He was 21 years old. | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
You can hear more stories all this week on your BBC local radio | :22:19. | :22:34. | |
station. There is a specially extenddd late | :22:35. | :22:43. | |
news at 10:25pm, reporting on the services | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
Some of those will involve services at war memorials, | :22:51. | :23:00. | |
stopped in front of many of these war memorials and wondered `bout the | :23:01. | :26:14. | |
showers today but through the course of tonight, they will gradu`lly ease | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
and | :26:20. | :26:30. |