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00:00Through song these soldiers chronicled the years of strife and fray.
00:10Through song they were recruited, through song they marched away.
00:18And now through song we tell to you the story of those days.
00:27Of wives and children left behind and men who marched away.
00:42In Devonshire I was a keeper, for half my life I lived outdoors.
00:49Using skills my father taught me on land that edged the open moors.
00:56I cut the snares of every poacher, rising hours before the sun.
01:03I set traps and planted cover and drove the birds towards the guns.
01:11And I can't help but wonder, now William died.
01:31Do all those who lie here know where they died?
01:37Did you really believe them when they told you the cause?
01:43Did you really believe that this war would end war?
01:52We walked towards the waiting guns.
02:07Screams.