Bunkers and bards - Boesinghe to Ypres

Bunkers and bards - Boesinghe to Ypres

Send a text In today's episode, we travel the Ypres salient from Boesinghe to Ypres and visit some of the many cemeteries and memorials that dot this part of the battlefield. We begin at the Ziegler Bunker and one of the finest bunkers left on the Western Front before continuing to a roadside memorial bedecked with the tricolor of Ireland, and hear the sad tale of one of Ireland's finest poets. Our journey continues taking in demarcation stones and memorials before we had back toward ...

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The sepoys on the seafront

The sepoys on the seafront

Send a text In this episode, we begin our journey through the footsteps of the fallen in Brighton, where one Autumn afternoon in 1915 the Constabulary were called to a disturbance on the seafront, fol...

16 Touko 202144min

Trones Wood

Trones Wood

Send a text In our latest episode, we walk the battlefield in one of the lesser-known killing fields of the Somme, Trones Wood. While diminutive in size, the wood was a fearsome obstacle, whose captu...

9 Touko 202133min

Gheluvelt - for God and for Worcester

Gheluvelt - for God and for Worcester

Send a text On the 31st October 1914, men of the 2nd Battalion the Worcestershire Regiment fought one of the greatest counter attack actions in British military history, in an afternoon of brutal clos...

2 Touko 202141min

Trench Talk - Rory Forsyth

Trench Talk - Rory Forsyth

Send a text In our latest episode, it's a real pleasure to sit down with the CEO and Trustee of the Western Front Way project, Rory Forsyth. The project is a charitable foundation dedicated to instal...

25 Huhti 202147min

The teaspoon of Talana

The teaspoon of Talana

Send a text On the 6th July 1915, hundreds of British soldiers left their trenches near the small Belgian village of Boesinghe in an attack against the German lines. Men from the Hampshire Regiment we...

18 Huhti 202138min

Canada's Golgotha - the crucified soldier

Canada's Golgotha - the crucified soldier

Send a text Shortly after the first German gas attack at Ypres in April 1915, rumours began circulating among the troops that the body of a Canadian soldier had been found crucified on the door of a b...

30 Maalis 202136min

The Black Bard of Pilckem

The Black Bard of Pilckem

Send a text On the 31st July 1917, the third battle of Ypres, or the Battle of Passchendaele as it is more commonly known began. Near the small village of Boesinghe, men of the Welsh division went in...

23 Maalis 202132min

Woodbine Willie - the puffing Padre

Woodbine Willie - the puffing Padre

Send a text In this episode we hear the remarkable stories of two exceptional men, neither of whom fired a shot in anger during the Great War, but through selflessness, humility and bravery have enter...

16 Maalis 202152min

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