Home Front

12 July 1918 - Hector Gidley


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On this day in 1918, over 600 people were killed in an explosion on-board the Japanese ship Kawachi, and on Dartmoor Hector Gidley arrives to see an apparently authentic re-enactment of battle.

Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz

Directed by Ciaran Bermingham
Editor: Jessica Dromgoole.

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