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Thomas Fitzpatrick - The Irishman Who Was The Actual Angel Of Mons In WW1 -[46-minute radio doc]

This 46-minute radio documentary is entitled: “Thomas Fitzpatrick – The Irishman Who Was The Actual Angel Of Mons In World War One” Synopsis of radio doc: One of the most potent legends to emerge from the First World War (1914-18), is the Legend of The Angels of Mons. How the Legend came about was, in September 1914, one month after the Battle of Mons, the journalist Arthur Machen published a short story in London’s largest circulation newspaper, the Evening News. The story was a tale of supernatural intervention grafted onto a lurid account of a key moment at the Mons salient in the Battle of Mons, the first major battle between the British Expeditionary Force Army (BEF) and the German army in the 1914-18 War. The story claimed that when the BEF was in mortal danger of being utterly annihilated, bowmen from the medieval battle of Agincourt intervened to defeat the German army and save the day for the BEF. Within days of the story being published, it went viral, with many people believing it as fact, and became popularly known as the Legend Of The Angels of Mons. Even nowadays, the Angels Of Mons story is all over our modern internet (with some even claiming it occurred). This radio documentary programme shows that Thomas Fitzpatrick of the Royal Irish Regiment was the actual Angel Of Mons, in that his exemplary leadership and heroic actions on the 23rd of August 1914 at Mons in Belgium, were the primary inspiration for Arthur Machen’s published story, which gave birth to the Legend of the Angels of Mons in the first place. Credits: * All dramatic narrations in this documentary are performed by Martyn Lewis. To be downloaded for educational and non-profit purposes only, in adherence with the universal truth: “What you do for yourself dies with you, what you do for others lives forever. It is eternal.”