Old Front Line
WW1 Podcast with Paul Reed
Return to Richebourg
In an episode recorded live on the battlefields, we travel to Northern France and follow the Southdowns Battalions of the Royal Sussex Regiment from behind the lines to their attack at The Boar’s Head near Richebourg. We also visit the graves of the fallen at St Vaast Post Cemetery and at nearby Laventie, learning about ‘The Day Sussex Died’ on 30th June 1916.
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READING LIST:
Edmund Blunden – Undertones of War
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It’s up there now – currently at the We Haves Ways festival, so internet a bit patchy!
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A great podcast Paul and an excellent primer for my Forgotten Front tour next week. When it comes to the reading list you are too modest as you did not mention your excellent article about Lowther’s Lambs in the June 2016 issue of Britain at War.
Good to see that there is a blue plaque outside the home of CSM Carter VC.
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Ah yes! That too!
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Thank you Paul for another great podcast.
As a Sussex lad like yourself, I always find it very poignant that the commemoration of Boar’s Head follows on so soon after Sussex Day. It always makes me wonder how the date for Sussex Day was chosen and whether it would have been more fitting to have been 30 June.
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Thank you for another great podcast.
As a Sussex lad like yourself, I always find it poignant that the commemoration of Boar’s Head comes so soon after Sussex Day. I don’t know how they went about establishing when Sussex Day would be but I can only thing it would have been better to be 30 June in remembrance of our brave lads from across our county who died on that day and for all the other Sussex boys who served in the RSR colours and other units who gave their lives in the Great War. Never forgetting those who served and survived.
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Wonderful episode, beautifully put, and obviously one that means a lot to you
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Thanks, Peter!
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My Grandfather was there, 11th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
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My Grandfather was there 11th Battalion company D Royal Sussex Regiment
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got to this one late , but thoroughly riveted by your stories. Sussex lost so many boys in an instant. Incredibly sad.
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Thanks, Jack – and yes, a very sad place for Sussex By The Sea.
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