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05/11/2018

100 years on, Inside Out remembers the Reading footballers who gave up their protected status to fight and reveals the newly restored chalk map carved into the Wiltshire hillside.

As the country marks the coming centenary of the First World War, the south remembers the Reading footballers who gave up their protected status in order to join up and fight at the front. Jon Cuthill tracks down descendants of a young navy recruit from Portsmouth and returns a special memento of their family history. Inside Out revisits the site of the Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley and discovers evidence of early propaganda films, and there is a reveal of the newly restored chalk map of Australia, hand-carved into a Wiltshire hillside above Compton Chamberlayne by Aussie squaddies far from home.

29 minutes

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Mon 5 Nov 2018 19:30

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Series Producer Ingrid Kelly

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