TARTAN PIMPERNEL, the

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Title: TARTAN PIMPERNEL, the

Reference number: 14932

Date: 2001

Sponsor: CTG

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 59.18 mins

Description: The story of Donald Caskie 'The Tartan Pimpernel', the crofter's son from the Hebridean island of Islay who helped save more than 2,000 men during World War Two. [subtitled]

See BBC website for a little background on his life: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-50187889 last accessed 08/08/2022]

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