WW2 - A Cornish Story (Part 2)

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WW2 - A Cornish Story (BBC Radio Cornwall Upload Series)

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We are delighted to be working in partnership with Bodmin Keep throughout 2021 on a national project developed by the Imperial War Museum (IWM). This project will see both museums delivering a range of projects that uncover lesser-known stories about Cornwall in the Second World War.

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WW2 - A Cornish Story (Part 2)

WW2 - A Cornish Story (BBC Radio Cornwall Upload Series)

15 minutes 54 seconds

4 years ago

WW2 - A Cornish Story (Part 2)

In this second episode of WW2 - A Cornish Story, Charlotte at Bodmin Keep talks about the amazing military feats of Major Kitchen, a DSO winner and war hero who served with distinction with the 5th Battalion of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in Northwest Europe, while Joseph at the Museum of Cornish Life shares the story of Mary Beazley, the daughter of a Cornish-born Royal Navy admiral, and her incredible wartime experiences at her family home near Bodmin.

This podcast series is brought to you in partnership with Bodmin Keep as part of a national project developed by the Imperial War Museum (IWM).(Episode cover image reproduced by kind permission of the Imperial War Museum, London. © IWM A 21574. Vice Admiral H B Rawlings, CB, OBE, photographed on 15 January 1944 at his office in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he was briefly stationed as Flag Officer Commanding, West Africa.)