Old Front Line
WW1 Podcast with Paul Reed
Despatches: Somme – Redan Ridge
We travel to the familiar landscape of Picardy and visit one part of the ‘Forgotten Somme’ – the battlefields on the Redan Ridge. Here we see look at the fighting on 1st July 1916 and at the end of the battle in November 1916, examine the story of a soldier ‘Shot at Dawn’ and discuss the writer H.H. Munro (‘Saki’) who fell here during the Battle of the Somme.
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Excellent episode as you say the forgotten Somme! Especially the men of the 4th Division.
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Thanks Paul really interesting, I’ve only ventured as far as the top of the sunken lane but now you have inspired me to follow in your footsteps.
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Thanks, Peter – hope you make it back there soon!
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Thanks for a fascinating and thought provoking Despatches Paul. Given that Crozier snr singularly failed to look after James Crozier for his mother, did she ever confront him about it post war?
Good that you mentioned Saki, I paid my respects to him at Thiepval on Vic’s “Oh what a literary War” trip in 2019.
I became aware of him as long ago as 1970, when as a 13 year old and recovering from a broken leg, my mother bought me an anthology of ghost stories and he wrote one of them, “The Wolves of Cernogratz”.You can listen to this on YouTube. It’s a short story, only 12 minutes long. Anyway, it was enough to take me to his panel at Thiepval!
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Excellent talk.
We always spend time on the Redan, in the main because of its link to Hawthorn and Beaumont. A fascinating area, much less appreciated than others.
Despite its very open landscape, it carries a definite atmosphere of its own.
Thanks 👍
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Excellent talk.
We always spend time on the Redan, in the main because of its link to Hawthorn and Beaumont. A fascinating area, much less appreciated than others.
Despite its very open landscape, it carries a definite atmosphere of its own.
Thanks 👍
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