Demarcation Stones Fundraiser with Roger Steward and Dr Dominiek Dendooven
Founders of the New Ypres League Dr Dominiek Dendooven and Roger Steward join the podcast to discuss a worthy remembrance project for the old Ypres battlefields: replacing and restoring the demarcatio...
5 Dec 202533min
Second Marne - Directive No. 4
In the prelude to the prelude of the Second Battle of the Marne in 1918, we set the clock back to December 1917 to look at the position of the Allies at that point in the war. Specifically, we look at...
1 Dec 202530min
"Bicycling My Grandfather's WW1 Journey" - A Discussion with Brett Hawkes
Cape Ann, Massachusetts resident Brett Hawkes comes on the podcast to discuss his long bicycle trips through France, where he followed in his Doughboy grandfather's WW1 footsteps. The BFWWP is on Pa...
24 Nov 202559min
Ypres - Demarcation Stone Fundraiser
This is a quick episode to make listeners aware of a fundraising drive by the New Ypres League to restore some of the post-WW1 demarcation stones in the Ypres, Belgium area. Where to donate: https:...
12 Nov 20257min
"An Unladylike Profession" by Chris Dubbs - American Women War Correspondents in WW1
Educator and First World War enthusiast Kristin Stelfox comes on the podcast to discuss some of the first and pathbreaking American women war correspondents who covered the first years of the war. ...
9 Nov 202546min
"Loaned for the Summer" - A Discussion with Craig DeSteiguer
Writer Craig DeSteiguer joins us to tell the story of his grandfather John Horace Merriman, who was deeply affected by his First World War-era service. "Death in the Trench" Let me sing no whispers...
29 Okt 202529min
2026 Lost Battalion Tours Meuse-Argonne Pilgrimage
We have dates for the 2026 Meuse-Argonne Battlefield Pilgrimage! The trip is from July 02 - 08, 2026. This next visit will be one where we really plan to put boots on the ground: we will be walki...
22 Okt 202513min
Aisne-Marne & Vesle Sector - SGT William Shemin
In the final days of the Aisne-Marne Offensive, American forces pursued the retreating Germans to the River Vesle in August 1918. During the battles for possession of the key village of Bazoches-sur-V...
15 Okt 202520min
