Old Front Line
WW1 Podcast with Paul Reed
Questions and Answers Episode 25
In this episode we cover subjects from how the British and Commonwealth soldier named the ‘Battle of the Somme’ in 1916 to how Irish soldiers on the front line in France thought about the Easter Rising in Dublin in April 1916, to the flooding of the Yser Plain in 1914 and how infantry signallers went over the top in the Great War.
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Nice one….the Irish question got me thinking and if an Irish soldier living in Ireland got leave did he get extra ‘travelling time’ and I guess the same for Highlands and Islands men…..a man with a 72 hour pass might have spent over 50% of his leave travelling…compared to a man who lived in Kent or London……
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Good question!
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so happy to have my question answered in such a detailed and informative manner.
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Thanks for sending it in, Valerie!
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An excellent Q and A, especially on the role played by the Irish Soldiers. I note to that conscription wasn’t extended to Ireland, presumably it would have been very unpopular and difficult to enforce after the Easter Rising.
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Interesting viewpoint of how the Irish saw the First World War at the start in the Diary of an Old Contemptible by Private Edward Roe of the East Lancashire Regiment. Many saw it as a Jihad- supporting the Catholics of Belgium and France against the Protestant Saxons. (At least that his was his experience as he left his village at the very start of the war. One of my favourite Diaries.
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