Old Front Line
WW1 Podcast with Paul Reed
Category: Ypres
Bonus Episode: The Menin Gate at Night
In our third and final Bonus Episode that brings Season 8 to a close, we have a live recording from the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres, recorded while out leading a battlefield tour a few weeks ago. We reflect on the subjects we have… Continue Reading “Bonus Episode: The Menin Gate at Night”
Forgotten Memoirs of the Great War Part 1
In this episode we start a look at some of the Forgotten Memoirs of the First World War, starting with Percy Croney’s ‘Soldiers Luck’ published in the mid-1960s. Croney was a 1914 volunteer who served with the Essex Regiment and Scottish Rifles at Gallipoli… Continue Reading “Forgotten Memoirs of the Great War Part 1”
Ypres: The Menin Road
Continuing our journeys along the roads which crisscross the landscape of the Western Front, we travel to Flanders in Belgium, and take the old Roman road between the city of Ypres and the town of Menin which follows the story of four years of… Continue Reading “Ypres: The Menin Road”
Battlefield Vlog: Essex Farm, Ypres
We visit Essex Farm on the Yser Canal near Ypres, close to the front lines and where medical facilities were made in 1915 used by Canadian War Poet, John McCrae. Later it became a bunker complex and a nearby cemetery bears the name Essex… Continue Reading “Battlefield Vlog: Essex Farm, Ypres”
Podcast Summer Special
In a special summer edition of the podcast before it returns properly in September, we walk the battlefields near Passchendaele and have an extended Question and Answer session. THE PASSCHENDAELE BATTLEFIELD WALK: Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your question… Continue Reading “Podcast Summer Special”
The War Underground
The War Underground in many ways defined the static nature of the First World War on the Western Front. We examine the history of military mining, discover Sir John Norton Griffiths and his attempt to recruit 10,000 “moles” to work beneath No Man’s Land,… Continue Reading “The War Underground”
Podcast Questions & Answers Ep 5
In this latest Questions & Answers bonus episode, we look at questions about the Regular Army and the 1914 Star, the Canadians in WW1 as ‘Shock Troops’, discuss the men from the Southdowns Battalions from Sussex and ask do we have enough memorials along… Continue Reading “Podcast Questions & Answers Ep 5”
Despatches: A Weekend in Ypres
We’ve just had the first ever Old Front Line Podcast Supporter’s meet-up on the battlefields of Flanders near the Belgian city of Ypres. What was the weekend all about, what plans have we got for more of these, and in the episode we share… Continue Reading “Despatches: A Weekend in Ypres”
Despatches: By Train to Ypres
Railways were an essential part of the Great War, and the line which ran from Northern France to Poperinghe and Ypres became the route in and out of the battlefield for millions of men during the conflict. What can we learn of the history… Continue Reading “Despatches: By Train to Ypres”
Exhibiting The Great War
We look at two exhibitions in two key institutions that connect us to the history of the Great War: the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres and Imperial War Museum in London. At Ypres we see an exhibition about the history of the war… Continue Reading “Exhibiting The Great War”
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