Old Front Line
WW1 Podcast with Paul Reed
Questions and Answers Episode 16
In a wargraves special, we follow up on the recent episode about the new Loos British Cemetery Extension and we take some Questions relating to the work being carried out there, along with the recovery and identification of the dead from the Great War, both in the past and the present.
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Thanks Paul
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Hi,
If any listeners are interested in learning more about this aspect of the Great War, a book by Robert Sackville-West, “The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War” is well worth a read as it covers a number of different aspects of the missing and the efforts made to find them.
regards,
Stuart Price
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Great Q and A and I’m pleased that the Somme battlefield was not disturbed by the building of the second airport. I remember you mentioning this on the Walking the Somme tour 2002!
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Gosh, yes! I was speaking to journalists almost every week back then!
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Another great Q&A Paul, one small observation is that I really like the names removed at Thiepval, I get the school parties I guide to look for them and reflect on what their being found could mean to the families, I wish the CWGC would do the same at all other memorials to the missing.
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That’s interesting, Iain. Thanks for this.
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