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Prògram Choinnich

Date 07 August 1995
Track ID 5747
Part 1

Track Information

Original Tape ID

Program Choinnich 07.08.1995

Summary

An account of a special trip to meet up with fellow prisoners of war.

John Gillies went to Cardiff for a reunion weekend to meet up with old comrades who had been along with him in the Milag Nord camp in North Germany from 1941 to 1945. He tells of his emotions before undertaking the trip to Cardiff and what it was like to meet up with his comrades again after 50 years. Milag Nord was a camp established specifically for merchant seamen and John describes what it was like to be a prisoner of war.

Item Subject/Person

MacIllÌosa, Seonaidh

Recording Location

County - Ross and Cromarty

Parish - Stornoway

Island - Lewis

Village/Place - Stornoway

Language

Gaelic

Collection

BBC

Source Type

Dat

Audio Quality

Good