Trench Chat: Reclaiming The Salient with Roger Steward

Posted on February 11, 2023 by

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In this Trench Chat, we are joined by Roger Steward who works as a Battlefield Guide in Flanders, and is the author of an excellent book on Langemarck German Cemetery and a new one ‘Reclaiming the Salient’ about the battlefields around Ypres in the years following WW1. We look at the problems of the ‘Iron Harvest’, the recovery of the dead, and modern battlefield archaeology.

Roger Steward at Yorkshire Trench, Ypres

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Category: Flanders, Podcast Episode, Trench Chat, WW1 Cemeteries, WW1 History, Ypres

25 Comments on “Trench Chat: Reclaiming The Salient with Roger Steward”

  1. Hi Paul, thanks for another great podcast. Roger was a fantastic guest, I could have listened to you both all day, really fascinating stories. Thanks John

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  2. Hi Paul, I really enjoyed your guest on todays episode.It was absolutely fascinating to find out how Iron Harvest was handled.Thanks , Geoff Henderson

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  3. Very informative episode. The repatriation of over 80,000 remains of American soldiers was highly controversial Our country church cemetery is the final resting place of Martin Erickson—our county’s first KIA in 1918.

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  4. What an excellent episode, thank you. Your guest was fascinating to listen to, especially with his descriptions of the iron harvest and the retrieving of the dead. Please have him on again soon!

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  7. That was a great podcast Paul with Roger Steward.His book for me is one of the best books I have read about the Great War, one of those books that you just want to read in one go.

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  8. Brilliant listen today. Will have to buy the book now as I’ve always wondered what happened next?

    Love all the Podcasts, some proper gold nuggets in each one. Keep them coming.

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  9. Thanks for a fascinating and at times macabre podcast. Also revealing the very worst of human nature, e.g the offers to wealthy looking pilgrims to secretly remove the bodies of their loved ones and con men turning up at war widow’s front doors under false pretences. Were any of these brought to account? The books look good too, especially the one on Langemark.

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  10. On a tour I was guided into a farmer’s machinery shed where a table was covered in old ordinance- I was handed a Mills bomb with no thought of its potential to still be live – this podcast got me thinking – thanks for another great listen & learn.

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  12. A superb podcast – I’m looking forward to reading the Salient book which is such an interesting subject; my great grandfather served in the Salient and luckily survived the war winning the MM at the battle of Estaires in April 1918.

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