Old Front Line
WW1 Podcast with Paul Reed
West of Arras: Behind The Lines
We travel to the area Behind the Lines of West of Arras, visiting cemeteries where Casualty Clearing Stations were moved back to in 1918, discuss a small village where WW1 meets WW2, discover some original Great War graffiti on a farm building wall and visit on the of the most important Arras cemeteries covering all four years of the fighting and seeing the grave of Canada’s most decorated ordinary soldier.
Pte Claude Nunney VC DCM MM: Claude Nunney website.
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Thank you so much for another amazing episode. We have a place not far from here in Hesdin and Ligny cemetery is one I’ve been to a few times. Weirdly I’d also been drawn to George Haliday Simpson who you’d mentioned in this episode. A couple of years ago I’d taken photos of photos left of him and his mother left on his grave. Would be happy to share.
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How interesting – would love to see the photos! You can contact me via the About page here.
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Thanks for an excellent podcast, especially the story of Claude Nunney. It is sad to read that when he arrived in Canada as a ‘Home Child’ he and his sibling were separated and sent to different families. It’s bad enough being orphaned at that age but to be separated from ones siblings must have been heartbreaking.
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Yes, it was a very different time but these children were not always treated well.
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Paul, an alternative spelling could by Nazzaro not Nazzard. It could be that the US soldier had Italian ancestry.
regards,
Stuart Price
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This is a good shout – thank you! I shall look into this spelling!
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Mr. Reed, thank you for your mention of Tim Cook at the start of this episode. I had the chance of meeting Dr. Cook a few years back at the Canadian War Museum and he was as inspiring a speaker as he was a writer. Since I’ve heard you speak multiple times of your interest in the daily lives of soldiers on the Western Front, I recommend Dr. Cook’s 2018 book The Secret History of Soldiers: How Canadians Survived the Great War. A great read. Dr. Cook will be sorely missed.
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