I chose this video because it gives the viewer an understanding of what happened to children during World War 1 and because it looked interesting. The purpose of this video is to inform the viewer about what happened to children during the war from a personal perspective. This video mainly describes the health of children, especially infants. In the video, a half of infants died during 1914 – 1918, mainly due to infant mortality. There are two old people in this video who give personal anecdotes about what happened to them and their friends during the war. The first is a lady named Esther Peel who was born in 1907. Three of her baby siblings died of infant mortality and she herself was not allowed to go to a hospital when she was sick. The other person is an old man named Albert Walmsley who was born in 1908. He talks about how two of his best friends died during the war from malnutrition. The evidence from this video broadens our understanding of the tragic things that happened to children during the Great War and gives us a valid account of what occured.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCT6F-Hks_o
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