Old Front Line
WW1 Podcast with Paul Reed
Despatches: WW1 Trench Museums
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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Thank you Paul.. enjoyed thoroughly!
Best regards,
Bill Peterson
Thanks, Bill!
I’d loved to have seen the representation of the trenches at Hill 60. Uncle Syd Crook was mortally wounded somewhere in that field – trench 40-43 – on June 6th 1916
Yes, the remnants of an old museum was on the site well into the early 2000s but no trenches. The ground they were on had all been built on, sadly.
I always seem to run out of time to visit museums – trench or otherwise. Will definitely try harder to make time next time over on the OFL.
I think you’d enjoy them!
Very interesting “despatches”. Were the skulls at Croenart Wood real?
Yes, they were. What happened to them I have no idea.
Sounds quite grisly, it would be nice to think that they were properly reinterred but it doesn’t sound like it.
Great podcast on the trench museums! I need to visit one.
Thanks, Dick!