Project update: Shot at Dawn

In May the Central Youth Theatre made an appeal for information for their project, Lest We Forget-Shot at Dawn, exploring the stories of executed First World War soldiers from the West Midlands.

As part of the project a twenty minute film has been produced, called After Dawn.  The film tells the story of a fictional soldier who is executed for desertion and how it impacts his young son, who struggles to come to terms with the manner of his father’s death.

Filming took place at various locations across the West Midlands including the Willenhall Lock Museum and the trench recreation at the Staffordshire Regiment Museum.

After Dawn has been included in the Black Country Living Museum’s programme of events for their Black Country Goes to War day on Saturday 30^th August.  The film will be screened in the museum’s Limelight Cinema at 11:30.  To view the film audience members must pay the museum entrance fee.

Lest We Forget-Shot at Dawn is a Heritage Lottery funded project.

By Laura Sambrooks (Shot at Dawn project manager)