Questions and Answers Episode 14

The Old Front Line

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In our latest selection of questions from podcast listeners we look at the circumstances of the end of the First World War on the Western Front on 11th November 1918, ask why Albert Ball VC has a private memorial over his grave in France, discuss what happened to the Last Post Ceremony during WW2 and examine the 'War of the Guns' in the Great War - the use of artillery.
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The Old Front Line

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Ypres: The Menin Road 1:06:49

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Continuing our journeys along the roads which crisscross the landscape of the Western Front, we travel to Flanders in Belgium, and take the old Roman road between the city of Ypres and the town of Menin which follows the story of four years of conflict here in the First World War and discuss once more the 'culture' of The Old Front Line. Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your question into the Old Front Line Discord Server or email the podcast . Send us a text Support the show…

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Questions and Answers Episode 26 38:17

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This week we discuss the background to the names British soldiers gave their German counterparts - names like Fritz and Bosch - we examine the role Portugal had on the Western Front and discuss where they are memorialised, look out how modern development has changed The Old Front Line and who was Princess Patricia of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry? You can find the Old Front Line YouTube Channel here: Old Front Line on YouTube . Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your question into the Old Front Line Discord Server or email the podcast . Send us a text Support the show…

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Somme: Tara-Usna Hills 55:27

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In this episode for the fifth anniversary of the Podcast we travel back to the Somme and look at the story behind the naming of Tara and Usna Hills overlooking La Boisselle, and discuss two First World War objects found in a Somme junk sale. Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your question into the Old Front Line Discord Server or email the podcast . Send us a text Support the show…

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Questions and Answers Episode 25 37:46

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In this episode we cover subjects from how the British and Commonwealth soldier named the 'Battle of the Somme' in 1916 to how Irish soldiers on the front line in France thought about the Easter Rising in Dublin in April 1916, to the flooding of the Yser Plain in 1914 and how infantry signallers went over the top in the Great War. Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your question into the Old Front Line Discord Server or email the podcast . Send us a text Support the show…

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Live From Ypres: Bayernwald Trenches 1:02:29

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From a recently recorded livestream on the battlefields of Ypres in Flanders, join us on a walk around the reconstructed First World War trenches in Bayernwald - 'Bavarian Wood' - called Croonaert Wood on the British trench maps. You can watch the livestream from the Bayernwald Trenches on the Old Front Line YouTube Channel . Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your question into the Old Front Line Discord Server or email the podcast . Send us a text Support the show…

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Questions and Answers Episode 24 35:05

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This weeks subjects include how trenches in the First World War got their names, what happened to the pay of Missing soldiers and were men who were Prisoners of War paid at all, why did the Western Front stop at the Swiss border, and what happened to the soldiers and units positioned on the flanks of big attacks and operations? Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your question into the Old Front Line Discord Server or email the podcast . Send us a text Support the show…

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Walking Cambrai: Gouzeaucourt 1917 56:32

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We visit the Hindenburg Line battlefields of 1917 where the Battle of Cambrai was fought. We see the battlefield around Metz-en-Couture, visit the cemetery here and grave of Patrick Shaw-Stewart, and then walk down in Gouzeaucourt seeing a rare British bunker from WW1 and a memorial to the 11th Engineers of the US Army, ending on the high ground where the Welsh Guards counter-attacked in December 1917. The book mentioned was Children of the Souls by Jeanne MacKenzie. Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your question into the Old Front Line Discord Server or email the podcast . Send us a text Support the show…

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Questions and Answers Episode 23 36:46

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WW1 on Film: Our World War 51:33

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Our World War was a three-part BBC Drama series for the Great War Centenary in 2014 covering the fighting at Mons in 1914, the Somme in 1916 and the Battle of Amiens in 1918. It pioneered a new approach to film making about the Great War but a decade on is it still relevant and what does it tell us about the Great War? The Paddy Kennedy interview is in the archives of the Imperial War Museum . Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your question into the Old Front Line Discord Server or email the podcast . Send us a text Support the show…

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Questions and Answers Episode 22 35:02

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In our latest round-up of Questions and Answers we look at Memorials to non-white soldiers on the Western Front, whether 'battle bars' were ever planned for WW1 British and Commonwealth campaign medals, the award of the 'Blue Max' to German soldiers, and were ordinary soldiers told about the explosion of huge mines like the one under Hawthorn Ridge on the Somme. Reading List: Kevin Brazier - The Complete Blue Max: A Chronological Record of the Holders of the Pour le Mérite Erwin Rommel - Infantry Attacks Ernest Jünger - Storm of Steel Christina Holstein - Walking Verdun Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your question into the Old Front Line Discord Server or email the podcast . Send us a text Support the show…

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Somme: Albert-Bapaume Road 1:06:03

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Is there a 'culture' surrounding The Old Front Line? One that helps define it and enables us to understand that landscape of the First World War? If so, what is it, and how can we understand it? In this episode we take a major pathway across the Western Front battlefields: the Albert-Bapaume Road on the Somme, and we discuss what the this 'culture' of The Old Front Line might be. Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your question into the Old Front Line Discord Server or email the podcast . Send us a text Support the show…

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Questions and Answers Episode 21 36:08

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Walking the Somme: Mailly-Maillet 1:05:26

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We begin Season 8 back on the Somme Battlefields of 1916 and walk the ground around the village of Mailly-Maillet, located just behind the British trenches in front of Beaumont-Hamel and Serre and later much closer to the fighting in 1918. We visit cemeteries, see original graffiti and end our walk close to the final approach to the battlefield. Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your question into the Old Front Line Discord Server or email the podcast . Send us a text Support the show…

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Questions and Answers Special: WW1 Ancestors 47:40

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In this special edition we look at how trace to service men and women who fought and died in the Great War. We cover a number of questions covering different aspects of how to trace your WW1 Ancestors from many different nations, but in particular from Britain and the Commonwealth. USEFUL LINKS: Western Front Association Pension Files website Grand Memorial - Tracing French WW1 Records French War Diaries - WW1 Long, Long Trail website - Chris Baker London Gazette - WW1 Notices The British Newspaper Archive QMAAC WW1 Records British Nurses Records WW1 VAD Red Cross Records WW1 Women's Land Army website Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your question into the Old Front Line Discord Server or email the podcast . Send us a text Support the show…

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In this episode, we examine five iconic objects from the First World War which came to define the experience of Trench Warfare. These objects include barbed wire, helmets, duckboards, and trench periscopes. There is also a surprise artefact that millions of men carried onto the battlefield. If you are interested in Trench Warfare also check out The Western Front: WW1 Trench Warfare , Why Was there Trench Warfare in WW1? and Five Weapons of Trench Warfare . Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your question into the Old Front Line Discord Server or email the podcast . Send us a text Support the show…

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