First and Last(2003)

movie - first aired/released 2003-11-11 - 45 min - audience 10.0

War, Documentary

Directed by Matt Gallagher

The tragic story of the Great War is told through the accounts of the British and Canadian soldiers who were the first and last to die in battle. Private John Parr, a British bicycle scout who was the first British combat casualty on the Western Front, and Private George Price, a Canadian infantryman who was shot and killed just minutes before the Armistice went into effect in 1918