The Brickstacks

The Brickstacks

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the latest episode! Today, we walk the canal at Cuinchy, one of the forgotten battlefields of the Great War. Cuinchy was the site of the infamous brickstacks and the scene of bitter fighting throughout the entire war. We walk the battlefield to discover the military history of what happened here, and hear the personal stories of the dead as we visit some of the nearby cemeteries. Support the podcast: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/footstepsblog https://ww...

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Dilly and the Dormouse - the mysterious world of Room 40

Dilly and the Dormouse - the mysterious world of Room 40

Send us Fan Mail In January 1917, a German encrypted message was intercepted by a small relay station in Cornwall and passed to the secretive world of the code breakers inhabiting the dingy Room 40 i...

23 Touko 202137min

The sepoys on the seafront

The sepoys on the seafront

Send us Fan Mail 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...

16 Touko 202144min

Trones Wood

Trones Wood

Send us Fan Mail 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 ...

9 Touko 202133min

Gheluvelt - for God and for Worcester

Gheluvelt - for God and for Worcester

Send us Fan Mail 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...

2 Touko 202141min

Trench Talk - Rory Forsyth

Trench Talk - Rory Forsyth

Send us Fan Mail 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 i...

25 Huhti 202147min

The teaspoon of Talana

The teaspoon of Talana

Send us Fan Mail 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 Regime...

18 Huhti 202138min

Canada's Golgotha - the crucified soldier

Canada's Golgotha - the crucified soldier

Send us Fan Mail 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 o...

30 Maalis 202136min

The Black Bard of Pilckem

The Black Bard of Pilckem

Send us Fan Mail 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 we...

23 Maalis 202132min

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