Several weeks ago the Barnsley War Memorial Project was given the unique opportunity to take part in the recording of a special memorial program about Passchendaele for Radio 4. On Wednesday 27th September myself and two other members of the group went along to All Saints church at Darfield to pre-record a segment for the show, which will be broadcast at 11am on 10th November 2017 to coincide with the centenary of the end of the battle. Presenter Giles Fraser asked us questions about war memorials and about the Barnsley men who fell at Passchendaele. Mike Smith, co-author of Darfield Remembers, was also interviewed and so were the relatives of several Darfield men who'd been killed during the Third Battle of Ypres.
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| Barnsley Chronicle 6th October 2017 |
Although I was apprehensive about taking part in a radio interview, having never done anything like that before, I'm glad I did. It was a great experience. We recorded about 30 minutes worth of material, however we were told only a small amount of it would make it to air. So I have no idea what part of my interview will be featured (if any of it at all.) And to be honest, I can't remember half of what I said anyway, I was so nervous. I do recall speaking about Frank Pettitt's Death Penny, which was rescued from a scrapyard.
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| The two war memorials to the left inside All Sain'ts Church, Darfield. |
It was also my first visit to All Saint's church at Darfield, which I thought to be beautiful and historic piece of architecture. I took a photograph of the impressive marble war memorial for one of my other
WW1 blogs, as several Wombwell men are remembered this particular memorial.
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