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Programme, 2014. Used by Mrs Janice Murray, Director General of the National Army Museum at the Solemn Commemoration on the Centenary of the outbreak of the First World War at Westminster Abbey, 4 August 2014. Associated with World War One, Outbreak of War (1914-1918) 1914 and World War One, Western Front (1914-1918). The programme included readings from the Bible, Sebastian Faulks’ novel ‘Birdsong’, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Rose Macaulay, Georgina Lee, Wilfred Wilson Gibson, Harold Monro and TS Eliot, along with “An Historical Reflection” by Sir Hew Strachan and quotations from letters by Capt Alfred Dougan ‘Mickey’ Chater, 2nd Bn Bn Gordon Highlanders, 25 October 1914 and a letter home from The Very Revd Eric Milner-White, an army chaplain. Readers included the actors David Morissey and Rachael Stirling, Michael Fallon MP, Secretary of State for Defence, General The Lord Dannatt, Capt Edward Harris, Coldstream Guards and the Rt Rev Nigel McCulloch KCVO, National Chaplain to the Royal British Legion.

World War One, Outbreak of War (1914), World War One, Western Front (1914-1918)