The Old Front Line - Paul Reed

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West of Arras: Behind The Lines

Season 9 · Episode 9

Saturday, November 8, 2025 • Duration 01:06:06

We travel to the area Behind the Lines of West of Arras, visiting cemeteries where Casualty Clearing Stations were moved back to in 1918, discuss a small village where WW1 meets WW2, discover some original Great War graffiti on a farm building wall and visit on the of the most important Arras cemeteries covering all four years of the fighting and seeing the grave of Canada's most decorated ordinary soldier.

Pte Claude Nunney VC DCM MM: Claude Nunney website.

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Questions and Answers Episode 39

Season 9 · Episode 8

Saturday, November 1, 2025 • Duration 40:10

In this episode we ask what is the current size of the 'Zone Rouge' and are there plans to clear it? We then look at the use of morphine to treat pain and was this misused? We then look at when Steel Helmets were first issued to British and Canadian troops, and end by asking what WW1 slang words are still in use today?

The Old Front Line on YouTube: Old Front Line Channel.

The OFL episode about the Zone Rouge: The Myth of the Zone Rouge.

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Bonus Episode: A Siege Battery Gunner

Season 8 · Episode 34

Saturday, August 30, 2025 • Duration 29:40

In this second Bonus Episode to end Season 8 of the podcast we look at the subject of Great War veterans and in particular Malcolm Vyvyan who served as a Siege Battery officer in the Royal Garrison Artillery on the Somme, Arras and Flanders, and was awarded the Military Cross in 1917.

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Despatches: WW1 Trench Museums

Season 6 · Episode 12

Wednesday, December 6, 2023 • Duration 21:18

In this latest episode of Despatches we think about First World War Trench Museums: a battlefield phenomena from the 1920s when thousands of 'pilgrims' travelled to the landscape of the Western Front. We look at some of the famous, and less famous Trench Museums and some that no longer exist. What do they tell us about the experience of trench warfare?

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Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery

Season 6 · Episode 11

Saturday, December 2, 2023 • Duration 53:52

The Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery is the largest US War Cemetery in Europe with over 14,000 graves. We walk the battlefields here from Cunel to the cemetery, and down into Romagne village to visit an amazing private museum. Along the way we discuss the history and ask why such a place receives so few American visitors?

Romagne 14-18 Museum: website of Romagne 14-18 Museum.

American Battle Monuments Commission website: ABMC website.

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Despatches: The Butte de Warlencourt

Season 6 · Episode 10

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 • Duration 16:29

Welcome to Despatches, a new short-form podcast from The Old Front Line. These new shorter Pods will look at some specific aspects of the Great War and the landscape of the battlefields of the First World War. They will be published in addition to the regular episodes.

In this first Despatches episode we travel to the Somme and look at the Butte de Warlencourt, the old burial mound where the fighting came to an end in November 1916. It was in the news this week having had a change of ownership, and we look at its history and consider how and why sites like these can be preserved.

The official Butte de Warlencourt website is here: https://www.buttedewarlencourt.com/

The Butte de Warlencourt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ButteDeWar

The Hawthorn Crater Association is here: https://hawthornridgeca.com/

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War at Sea: HMS India

Season 6 · Episode 9

Saturday, November 25, 2023 • Duration 47:30

In this episode we look at the War at Sea in the Great War for the first time and are joined by historian Rebecca Clarke to discuss her book on the fate of HMS India and her crew, following the loss of the ship to a German U-Boat in August 1915. The men spent the rest of the war interned in neutral Norway and we discover the fascinating stories behind their experience there.

Rebecca Clarke's website: HMS India website.

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Walking Arras: Gavrelle

Season 6 · Episode 8

Saturday, November 18, 2023 • Duration 01:16:51

In this episode we return to the Arras battlefields in Northern France and walk to the village of Gavrelle where the men of the Royal Naval Division fought in 1917, and discover the fields where the Royal Marines lost more men in a single days fighting than on any other in their entire history.

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Memoirs: The Great War Remembered

Season 6 · Episode 7

Saturday, November 11, 2023 • Duration 01:16:00

In this episode for Armistice Day we look at those who survived the Great War and came home to write about in a series of memoirs which were published from the 1920s until more recent times as that generation faded away. We look at Officer's Memoirs and ask why there are fewer memoirs by ordinary soldiers?

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Volunteers in WW1 with Richard Van Emden

Season 6 · Episode 6

Saturday, November 4, 2023 • Duration 46:56

In this latest Trench Chat we are joined by author and historian Richard Van Emden to discuss his new book 'Volunteers' about the men who enlisted as volunteers in the British Army during the early years of the Great War in 1914/15.

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