Old Front Line
WW1 Podcast with Paul Reed
Questions and Answers Episode 33
Our latest questions from podcast listeners discuss what role German steel helmets, Stahlhelm, had on the First Day of the Somme, how did Great War veterans feel about WW2, how were women who fell pregnant from British soldiers treated during the conflict, and when we visit British and Commonwealth cemeteries are we walking over the graves of those buried there?
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Great question about the children….as you know this has always gone on and fast forward to the next war I recently met a war baby who’s father was a GI and landed on Utah Beach and only found out a few years ago and an extended family in the US! Also it is said around 5 babies were born in the Arnhem area in 1945……I wonder if anyone has ever done any work on Great War babies with BEF fathers……I suspect as you said swept under the carpet…..Great question!
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Thanks Niall – yes I’ve had lots of WW2 GI/Canadian babies travel on tours to see where fathers fought.
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I think it was Frank Richards (any relation to Keith??) who told the story of an Indian regiment posted by Richards’ that was very good at fighting but 2-3 years later when Richards’ regiment passed through the area again there were a fair number of dark-skinned mixed-background toddlers in evidence.
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NOT very good at fighting, I meant to say.
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Interesting to read that some citizens of Tournai are proud of their connection with the Imperial German Army! How were the mothers of these children treated after the Great War? This must have occurred in France as well as Belgium. Were they publicly humiliated with the head shavings that occurred at the end of the Second World War?
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There is very little on this to be honest, wish there was more!
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