Episode 2.36 The sports strike
In this episode, Percy continues officer training. He practices code, unfortunately no one seems to be able to break it. I guess that means he knew what he was doing. He spends his third Christmas awa...
2 Marras 201748min
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...
22 Loka 201746min
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
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...
20 Syys 201745min
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
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!...
19 Elo 201741min
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
"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
