Washington Men at the Somme – other screenings


Location: Durham County Record Office, County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UL

Type: Admission free, Open to all, Performance

Date: 1 July 2016

Join us in the Record Office search room on Friday 1 July at 12:15pm or 1:15pm for a short film commemorating the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Lonely Tower and Wessington U3A present ‘Washington Men at the Somme’, a 20 minute film featuring the 94 men who died in battle.  The time is 7:28am, 1st July 1916, the mines at La Boisselle are detonated and the whistles blow.

Wessington U3A have organised screenings of their short film around the area http://www.durhamatwar.org.uk/?p=1006

They have also given permission for Durham at War to show the film at Durham County Record Office.

Friday 1 July 

12:15pm and 1:15pm

There will also be a display about the Battle.