County Down teenagers learn about life in Somme trenches

Name: County Down teenagers learn about life in Somme trenches
Uploaded: 2016-06-29T19:31:47.000Z
Duration: 2 min 55 s
Description: As the centenary of the Battle of the Somme approaches, Mervyn Jess reports from the battlefields in France and met some County Down teenagers keen to learn what it was like for those in the trenches.

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This Friday will be the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, one of the bloodiest battles of the First World War.

Mervyn Jess has been to those battlefields in France and met some County Down teenagers keen to learn what it was like for those in the trenches.

Northern Ireland

29 June 2016