Episode 2.43 The Battle of Mont St Quentin

Episode 2.43 The Battle of Mont St Quentin

I have no doubt that this is the best from Percy Smythe, absolutely full on account of one of the main defeats of the Germans in 1918. Don't believe me? Here is an extract; "A heavy, probably a 9.2 inch, had evidently landed fair in the trench. The carnage was awful. Dead, wounded, and dying, all lay huddled and twisted together in grotesque little heaps, a mass of mangled flesh. At first all was silent. But when those who still lived saw that we were there, they began to moan piteously for help. Without any hesitation we set to work to do what we could for them. Kneeling down by the first living man, I saw that he was in a pretty bad state. Besides other wounds, his right arm was hanging to his shoulder by a small strip of skin and flesh. He begged me to cut the useless limb right off, and I tried to do so with a blunt jack-knife, but could not manage it. I cut his tunic away from the damaged arm, and cut the equipment off his body to give him a little ease". Well that's about as bad as it could get!

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Episode 2.36 The sports strike

Episode 2.36 The sports strike

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Episode 2.35 A very manly letter

Episode 2.35 A very manly letter

In this episode Percy is at Cambridge training to be an officer. He and Dorrie are busted by her Dad and have a lot of explaining to do. He visits his new sister-in-law, Mary near Londonderry in Irela...

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Episode 2.34 Passchendaele One grows callous

Episode 2.34 Passchendaele One grows callous

Once the sighing whine of a shell in flight ended with a savage hiss and an explosion just behind our dug-out, and I felt the sandbag wall heave in several inches. "That one nearly smashed our dug-out...

7 Loka 201749min

Episode 2.33 Passchendaele Over the duckboards

Episode 2.33 Passchendaele Over the duckboards

Percy has finally left Blighty, crosses the channel and ... "After crossing the ridge we left the duckboards and struck off to the right through the sloppy slippery mud, picking our way in and out bet...

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Episode 2.32 The party is over and so is the parting

Episode 2.32 The party is over and so is the parting

Wouldn't you know it, Percy found his soul mate and then gets whisked back to war. Nevermind, he wants that promotion so he can afford a house for his "little girl" when the war is over. The parting i...

3 Syys 201744min

Episode 2.31 Dodging Dorothy's Dad

Episode 2.31 Dodging Dorothy's Dad

This one starts with Percy coming back from leave and within two days he looks up Dorothy, the jewel of a girl he met on the train. Not a slow worker, our Perce, they are engaged in less than a month!...

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Episode 2.30 Percy finds a jewel

Episode 2.30 Percy finds a jewel

There were almost 13,000 war brides to diggers in WW1 according to the Australian War Memorial. Brother Vern found Mary in Ireland, but what about Percy? Well, our Casanova finally meets his "one and ...

11 Elo 201745min

Episode 2.29 Death of a brother

Episode 2.29 Death of a brother

"He felt no pain and knew nothing of the terror of approaching the brink!" So wrote one of the Smythe brothers to Percy. Which brother dies? Well, you'll have to listen. That letter is read in this ep...

29 Heinä 201743min

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