In the shadow of the Springboks - Delville Wood to Courcelette

In the shadow of the Springboks - Delville Wood to Courcelette

Send us a text Welcome to the penultimate episode of Season 7! Today we are on the Somme and walk the battlefield from Delville Wood to Courcelette via High Wood and Martinpuich. We begin we looking at "The Turning Point" a remarkable but little-known narrative of the Somme battle written by the eccentric Harold Perry-Robinson. We visit Delville Wood cemetery and memorial and hear the history of the site, as well visiting the only remaining tree from the Great War. We walk to High Wood ...

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Fricourt

Fricourt

Send us a text With the sad news of the passing of Martin Middlebrooke, this podcast heads to the Somme battlefield where we walk across the battlefield at the village of Fricourt. Our journey takes ...

3 Maalis 20241h 9min

Special podcast update

Special podcast update

Send us a textMany of you who listen to the podcast aren't on social media and are not followers of me on Twitter so please find attached a very brief update on what's happening with the podcast going...

19 Helmi 20248min

Trench Talk - Roger Steward in conversation about Langemarck German Cemetery

Trench Talk - Roger Steward in conversation about Langemarck German Cemetery

Send us a text In this latest episode of Trench Talk, it's a real pleasure to be joined by military historian, battlefield guide and author Roger Steward. Lockdown allowed Roger to write the book he ...

18 Helmi 20241h 11min

Where it all began - Vimy

Where it all began - Vimy

Send us a text In this latest episode, we visit the battlefield where my journey through the Great War began some 35 years ago - Vimy Ridge. We look at what happened in this part of the front and hav...

11 Helmi 20241h 12min

Beyond the front - Kemmel

Beyond the front - Kemmel

Send us a text Welcome to this latest episode of Footsteps of the Fallen. In this episode we travel to Flanders and visit one of the lesser-visited corners of the Great War in this part of Belgium, t...

4 Helmi 20241h 2min

Cambrai - one day on the battlefield

Cambrai - one day on the battlefield

Send us a text In our latest podcast, we visit the battlefield around Cambrai, where, on the 20th of November 1917, the first mass tank battle in military history took place. The Allies smashed a 5-m...

14 Tammi 20241h 6min

Cobbers - Australia on the Somme

Cobbers - Australia on the Somme

Send us a text Welcome to our first podcast of 2024! In this episode, we visit the battlefields around Villers Brettoneux on the Somme, an area of Picardy that will be forever associated with the Aus...

7 Tammi 20241h 11min

Trench talk - Peter Doyle and the Princess Mary Christmas Box

Trench talk - Peter Doyle and the Princess Mary Christmas Box

Send us a text Welcome to our Christmas episode of Footsteps of the Fallen! In this special Trench Talk I'm joined by Professor Peter Doyle who tells us all about the history behind one of the most i...

24 Joulu 20231h 22min

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