Somme: Mouquet Farm

Posted on August 7, 2021 by oldfrontline

In this episode we walk the Somme from Ovillers to Mouquet Farm; ‘Moo-Cow Farm’ or ‘Mucky Farm’ as the soldiers called it. Here we examine the attacks by Australian, Canadian and finally British units, discovering just how costly this corner of the Somme battlefields was in 1916.

Thanks to Nick Stone for the ‘Ghost Image’ of Mouquet Farm.

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4 Comments on “Somme: Mouquet Farm”

N Cherry
August 8, 2021

Marvellous…..great pictures of the before and after…..

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- oldfrontline
  August 9, 2021
  
  Thanks, Niall.
  
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Stephen Hunt
August 16, 2021

A riveting podcast with a reading list to match. It was quite a coup seeing Charles Carrington at your first WFA meeting! Until googling him just I had no idea that he was interviewed on the BBCs Great War programme.

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- oldfrontline
  August 16, 2021
  
  Yes, he’s on one of the iPlayer episodes I think. Thanks, Stephen.
  
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