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WW1 Podcast with Paul Reed
Five Little-Known WW1 Memorials
In this episode we explore five little-known memorials along the Western Front battlefields in France and Flanders, looking at how different nations commemorated the battles of the Great War, and what they chose to remember.
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Thanks for another great episode Paul. Sorry I couldn’t make the last Zoom evening but I did get round to watching the Diggers documentary which was very enjoyable. Congratulations on the Spotify figures too!
Thanks, Matt. Hope you can make the next one!
Nice one excellent work as usual…I will send you a message about Nieuport and the Northants…..
Thanks, Niall.
Excellent as always, Paul. I really like Charles Sargeant Jagger’s work; as a sculptor he had a style all his own and I prefer his smaller work such as the Nieuport lions or the machine gunners in Portsmouth to the larger pieces like the RA memorial. There’s a very good bronze by him just outside a hotel in Manchester, which I’m sure you’ve seen. Thanks once more!
Thank you, Phil. I agree with the smaller pieces although I’m always in awe of the Gunners memorial.
Don’t know if you’re a member of English Heritage, but they recently had a podcast on the most poignant war memorials in London. It’s available on Spotify at
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5kpoIsSdK3Hii4am5U004K and covers the Cenotaph, Haig, Anglo-Belgian, Edith Cavell, Machine Gun Corps and the RA. I found the last 2 very interesting, but the background to the design of the MGC memorial is particularly informative, and something I had never realised. It’s all well worth a listen.
Thanks, will have a listen!
Another great podcast covering the less well known battles of the Great War, especially the French and US battles. I must admit that I have never really “got” the battle of the Marne. It seems a large somewhat vague battle of manoeuvre to me. However, your account of French 75s blasting away over open sights at loopholed buildings made it a bit more “accessible” to me! The story of the Gartside-Tippings was very sad. Ironically Mary is named on my local war memorial in Southport town centre. Apparently, her father died when she was 7 and her mother remarried the House Surgeon at Southport Hospital.
Thank you for the picture of the memorial panel showing Lt-Col Abadie, KRRC. My great-grandfather served with him in 2nd KRRC guarding Boer POWs in Ceylon in 1900.
Thanks David, and thanks for sharing that connection.