Tales from the Battlefields
By Terry Whenham
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Podcast telling the unheard stories of men who served on the Western Front during World War 1. Listen to the stories of soldiers told by Terry Whenham, battlefield guide and researcher. I have been researching these stories for over 20 years and can now share incredible experiences of ordinary men and women. Who were these soldiers? How did they die? What is their legacy? How do we remember them?
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182: Lives Changed Forever by the Great War
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Jul 27, 2026 |
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181: The Bicker Boys and the Living Ghosts of the Battlefields
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Jul 16, 2026 |
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180: Somme Success on 1st July 1916
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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179: An Australian Pilgrimage to the Western Front
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Jun 25, 2026 |
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178: The 6th Airborne Division in Normandy with Neil Barber
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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177: Massacre at the Ardenne Abbey – June 1944
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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176: The Tyneside Scottish on the 1st Day of the Somme
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May 28, 2026 |
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175: 4 Stories from the Great War
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May 21, 2026 |
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174: Following in the Footsteps of the Ulstermen at Thiepval
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May 13, 2026 |
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173: Killed in Action, Buried by his Comrades and Back to Blighty
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May 05, 2026 |
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172: Following in the Footsteps of a Royal Fusilier at Arras
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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171: The Canadians Success at Vimy Ridge with Samantha McCrea
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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170: Following in their Footsteps on a Battlefield Tour
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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169: The Arras Cemeteries – Part 1
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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168: A Somme Walk around Martinpuich
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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167: Ovillers – The First Few Days of July 1916
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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166: A Conscientious Objector/Stretcher Bearer Part 2
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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165: A Stretcher Bearer at Passchendaele – Part 1
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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164: The Monmouthshire’s at Ypres in May 1915
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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163: The Horror of Mouquet Farm
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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162: Dooner Brothers
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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161: An Airman Above the Battlefields
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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160: Harry Patch – The Last Fighting Tommy – with Richard Van Emden
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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159: The Story of Richard “Windy” Gale – A Hero of Both World Wars
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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158: Albert – The Allied Garrison Town on the Somme
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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157: Remembering Edith Cavell – The Executed Nurse
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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156: Under Shellfire, Into a German Dugout and an Australian Pilot Far from Home
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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155: Following in the Footsteps of a British Soldier
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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154: The Battle of Cambrai
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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153: A Pals Battalion Raided by Germans on the Somme – December 1915
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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152: The Unknown Warrior with John Nichol – The Paperback Version
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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151: Shell shock
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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150: The 2025 Frontline Walk
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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149: A Pals Battalion on the Somme in 1915
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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148: The Children of the Fallen
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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147: The 8th Lincolns at the Battle of Loos, with Nigel Atter
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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146: Charles Carrington in the Great War (Part 2)
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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145: A Subaltern’s War – Charles Carrington (Part 1)
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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144: Love Broken by the War
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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143: A Pals Battalion in Training – The Winter of 1914/15
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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142: The Story of the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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141: Your Country Needs You – September 1914
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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140: The Dead of Lijssenthoek
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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139: Captain H S H Wallace Memorial and The Nine Brave Men Memorial at Bazentin
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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138: St George’s Memorial Church in Ypres
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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137: Massacre at Le Paradis – A Personal Pilgrimage
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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136: The story of the 8th Battalion of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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135: A Lack of Offensive Spirit? – The 46th North Midland Division on the Somme
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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134: The Boys of Bethune
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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133: Leeds Pals at Serre
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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132: The Forgotten Village of Erquinghem-Lys
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May 27, 2025 |
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131: The Dead of Dochy Farm at Ypres
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May 12, 2025 |
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130: Distance and Time –Forgotten Stories from Ypres and the Somme
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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129: A Personal Pilgrimage to the Western Front
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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128: The Tanks of Passchendaele with Leen Van Meerbeek
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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127: The German Experience at Passchendaele
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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126: The Battle of Crete with Will Tower
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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125: Those They Left Behind
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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124: The Battle for Bazentin Ridge
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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123: The Poets and the Welsh Division at Pilckem Ridge
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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122: The Other Trench – The Diary of Alexander Pfeifer with Phil Cross
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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121: Wounded on the Western Front
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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120: Trench Raids on the Somme with Neal Russell
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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119: The Story of Walter Cox Wounded at from Pozieres
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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118: The Battle of Bellewaarde Ridge – June 1915
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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117: The Missing of Tyne Cot with Johan De Jonghe
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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116: Tales from Ypres and the Somme Part 2
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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115: Christmas 1914
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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114: The Beasley Boys and the England Rugby Captain with Graham McKechnie and Andrew Radd
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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113: Untold Stories from the Somme, Ypres and the Forgotten Battlefield
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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112: The Nameless Names with Scott Bennett
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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111: Sunset on the 1st Day on the Somme
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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110: What Happened at Vancouver Corner?
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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109: Soldiers' Stories from the Somme
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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108: One Day in Trones Wood - 14th July 1916
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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107: Words from Beyond
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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106: One Day in the Hohenzollern Redoubt with Beth Moore
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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105: White Flag Treachery
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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104: Arnhem 80 - Part 2 - Through the Eyes of the Soldiers and Dutch Civilians
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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103: Arnhem - The Drop Zones and the Battle for the Bridge
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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102: Ypres Walk
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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101: The Unknown Warrior with John Nichol
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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100: VC's, Shot at Dawn, Footballers and Other Stories from Ypres
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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99: Poelcapelle and Langemarck in October 1917
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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98: Return to High Wood in 1939
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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97: The Hertfordshire Boys at Passchendaele - 31st July 1917
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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96: Attack on the Ancre and The Lost Olympic Rower
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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95: Stan Hollis VC - The Man They Couldn't Kill
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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94: Blinded on the Somme
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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7: Ghastly by Day, Ghostly by Night, The Rottenest Place on the Somme – High Wood
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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93: D Day 80 – Episode 3
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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92: D Day 80 – Episode 2
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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91: D Day 80 - Episode 1
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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90: Forgotten but now Remembered
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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89: On the Trail of an Infantryman on the Western Front
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May 31, 2024 |
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88: From Trenches on the Somme to the Battlefield Above – the Story of Jack Lidsey with Andrew White
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May 22, 2024 |
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87: Battlefield Pilgrimages Between the Wars with Professor Mark Connolly
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May 16, 2024 |
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86: The Accrington Pals at Serre Part 2
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May 09, 2024 |
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85: The Accrington Pals at Serre Part 1
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May 02, 2024 |
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84: Sunk at Sea and Interned - with Rebecca Clarke
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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83: The Tragedy of a Crashed Lancaster – 80 Years On
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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82: A Promise Fulfilled – From the Somme to Melbourne and Collingwood Football Club
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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81: A Walk in the Footsteps of the 36th Ulster Division in Thiepval Woods
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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80: The Commonwealth War Graves Visitor Centre with Lucie Boidin
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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79: The Canadians at Courcelette with Poppy Mercier
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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78: 24 Hours at Anzac Cove
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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77: Boy Soldiers with Richard Van Emden
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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76: Tales from the Menin Gate
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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75: The Missing of Fromelles with Lambis Englezos
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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74: Interview with a World War 2 Veteran - John Morris
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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73: Battle of Le Quesnoy
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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72: Tribute to Martin Middlebrook - The First Day on the Somme
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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71: Discovering the Forgotten
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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70: New Zealanders on the Somme - September 1916
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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69: The "Baby Killers" from the Sky - Zeppelin
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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68: The Salonika Campaign in 1918
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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67: The Christmas Truce Through the Eyes of the Soldiers
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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66: RBL Great Pilgrimage to the Battlefields 1928 and 2018
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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65: The Missing of the Great War
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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64: A Moonlight Massacre
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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63: Return to the Battlefields Between the Wars
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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62: The Butte de Warlencourt
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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61: The Capture of Crest Farm and Passchendaele Village
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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60: A Son's Pilgrimage to the Western Front
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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59: The 2023 Frontline Walk
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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58: Father and Son
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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57: England Cricketer Jack Russell and his World War 1 Heritage
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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56: The Triumph of Thiepval
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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55: The Coming of the Tanks
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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54: The Killing Fields of Guillemont
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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53: The Story of Walter Tull with Graham McKechnie
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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52: The 1918 Battle of Amiens
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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51: Ghosts on the Somme - Part 2
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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50: Ghosts on the Somme - the story of the Film
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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49: The Pain of Pozieres
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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48: The Battle of Fromelles
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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47: Tales from Cologne Cemetery and the Prisoner of War experience of Alec Waugh
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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46: Tales From Ypres
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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45: The First Day of the Somme
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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44: Scoundrels, murderers, liars and charlatans from the Great War
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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43: The Myths of Messines with Simon Jones
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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42: Killed in Action Saving Comrades - 2 Brothers in the Great War
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May 26, 2023 |
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41: The Battle of Aubers Ridge
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May 09, 2023 |
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40: The Battle of Villers-Bretonneux
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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39: The Gas Attack at Ypres
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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38: Ypres Reservoir Cemetery - The Stories of the Soldiers
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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37: The Diary of a Young German Soldier
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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36: Voices From the Somme
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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35: The Sunken Lane on the Somme Through the Eyes of the Soldiers
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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34: Photographing The Fallen with Jeremy Gordon-Smith
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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33: Boom Ravine
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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32: The Legend of 2nd Lt Edgar Mobbs, England Rugby Captain, with Graham McKechnie
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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32: The Legend of 2nd Lt Edgar Mobbs, England Rugby Captain, with Graham McKechnie
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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31: Dad's Army's Arnold Ridley on the Somme in 1916
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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30: The Nurses on the Western Front
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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29: The Hell of Hooge and the Hooge Crater Cafe/Museum with Niek Benoot
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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28: A Tour of Tyne Cot Cemetery with Johan De Jonghe
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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27: The Spirits of the Soldiers or Just a Coincidence?
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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26: The Minstrel Boy - The Story of the 27th Northumberland Fusiliers on the 1st Day of the Somme
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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25: Armistice - November 1918
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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24: I died in hell, they called it Passchendaele
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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23: The Battle of Loos Through the Eyes of the Soldiers
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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22: The Royal Family in the 2 World Wars
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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21: The Battle of Flers-Courcelette with Pete Smith
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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20: The Hawthorn Crater with Rick Smith
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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19: Pond Farm and an Australian Pilgrimage
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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18: When 2 Battlefields Overlap in Time with Paul Reed
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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17: Letters to Loved Ones in The Great War
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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16: Detained in England - the story of a German POW camp in an English village
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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15: 5 Soldiers, 2 Memorials to the Missing and a Family Pilgrimage to Arras and the Somme
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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14: The Frontline Walk - Following in the footsteps of those who fought
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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13: Talbot House - The "Little Paris of the Ypres Salient" with Simon Louagie
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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12: A Weekend on the Western Front
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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11: The Memories of a WW1 Soldier's Daughter - Mollie Dunkley"
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May 27, 2022 |
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10: The Ulstermen and the Ulster Memorial Tower
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May 16, 2022 |
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9: The Gardeners of the CWGC with Diego Blondel
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May 03, 2022 |
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8: Living and Working on the Somme
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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7: The Battle of Arras - The Soldiers' Stories
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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6: Cometh the Hour - Sir Fabian Ware and the birth of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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5: Richard Dunning - the man who bought a Crater
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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4: German Spring Offensive - March 1918
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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3: The Battle of Neuve Chapelle Through the Eyes of the Soldiers
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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2: Brothers in Arms
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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1: A tale of 2 brothers
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Feb 14, 2022 |