Outstanding. Just finished Pershing’s account. You’re spot on!

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G'Day from Downunder. I wish to see a photograph of C.E.W. BEAN walking amongst the bleached Bones and remnants of the Lighthorsemen's charge against the Turks at Lone Pine. In His autobiography, Bean mentioned that he had a mind to construct a National Memorial, back in Australia, and he would visit ANZAC taking His time to reflect on what had happened and where, like at Chunik Bair. It is important to remember C.E.W.Bean had been made the Governments official "eyes" and sailed with a rank of Captain with the main body in 1914, arriving in Egypt like everybody else...He landed at Gallipolli with everybody else., He remained there until the evacuation. He left Europe in 1919 stopping at the dardenells. Anyway they arrived at the location of where the dead lighthorsemen lay, having been shot some 4 yrs before. Bean noted they were the bleached and weathered Bones, still fully clothed but in rags whipped by the winds across that hillside, webbing bleached, rifles with rusted bayonets still all pointing at where the Turkish position had been. Their skeletons laying in lines. The old sandbagged Turkish position just abandoned, and all the brass still where the Turks had stood. I want to see that photo I have been really enjoying your presentations, and I salute you for making "Lest we Forget" more than just pithy words. Thank You RJ Fishbourne Queensland, Australia. 18th January 2025.

I am the granddaughter of Edwin Woodhall and the story regarding him as a priest is the one my late father told me we also have the croix de Guerre medal for bravery he received in the 1st world war ? Believing this to be from when he was a spy in the Great War (another one of his books in the Museum which we also have

Absolutely fascinating really enjoyed it.

Ill fated souls. Nobody visits their graves, because they are aliens, buried thousands of miles from their homes. Their own people disowned them, because, according to them, they fought other's war.

My great grandfather was killed there in February 1916

Great episode! New subscriber, here. Love your content. I have learned so much!

thank you

how many unexploded shells and gas shells so unsave to do any thing with the area and hundreds of thousands of bodys stiil bured just under the service

Great, podcast, thank you.

Well done for providing us with WW1 history for the last 5 years.

Just found out my grandfather fought and was injured here. He was a South African but was fighting with the BEF 1st Battalion, C Company. He sustained a back injury but recovered but suffered ill health the rest of his life.

I can personaly relate to so much of this as a young man i Joined the Light Infantry TA in Durham I went to camps as a recruit with the Battalion in Huts just like the ones you have shown I was selected for Officer Training and was commissioned and then lived in the officers Mess sometimes in buildings and some times in Tents again just like you have shown even in my time an officers life was very differat from the other ranks The TA Battalion had strong links with the DLI all of the chaps in the battlion came from all walks of live and would go off to a 14 day camp I thank god we were never called to fight in a war But were were just like a pals battlion in the County of Durham I think the DLI had 32 Battalions in world war one when i go and look at a young officers grave on a battlefiled i think there for the grace of God it was not me under the headstone but i think sleep on brother officer you did your job and duty

Many thanks for this most poignant video. Have visited the Boar's Head site a number of times over the years, including once as a guest of the Royal Sussex Living History group in about 2008. Always worth pausing here on the way to Arras or the Somme. The sacrifice of the Royal Sussex deserves to be much better known and Paul's efforts to maintain the remembrance of this battle are to be applauded. The casualties weren't confined to the county of Sussex. Supporting the infamous June 30th 1916 attack were nine officers and 285 men of the 13th Gloucesters (the 'Forest of Dean Pioneers', recruited from across Gloucestershire, as well as from Birmingham and the South Wales and County Durham coalfields) who, while the attack was in progress, attempted to build two flanking breastworks and two communication trenches across No Man's Land. One of the trenches was dug to a length of 110 yards and to depths varying between two and five feet, as an NCO held the end of a guiding cord and shone back a torch from the German end, all while the men intermittently fought off grenade attacks. The Glosters suffered 86 casualties, 20 of them being killed. It was a truly desperate affair.

My grandfather was injured on 27/5/1918 in this battle and was taken as a POW. He was shot in the legs twice.

R I P 2nd Lieut Daniel Menzies Grant, D O W 4th August 1918. Lest we forget.🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A wonderful video always good to listen and watch your incredible work ❤❤

Another great video which you wouldn't get from a historian who does not know the WW1 Battlefields as Paul does. Thank you

Always incredible to listen to or watch your content Paul. Thank you.

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Most historical events or eras could use someone like you. Obvious immersion in a subject you love and a great podcast voice. Listened since the beginning and this might be my first comment. Well done, Sir, well done.

Yes very thought provoking, memories of young men, from a different time. I did one of your walking tours, with my late father, whilst on that tour a lady who was a nurse, told me my father was showing signs of parkinsonism desease. Unfortunately she proved, to be correct, so that tour was one of our last trips together, memories come back when I see your videos. Aii the best for the new year sir

Brilliant. Very much like the graffiti carved into the church in Ecoivres.

Really thought this was interesting

Know Aurel and had the pleasure to have met him. Thoroughly nice man.

Great upload. Like so many, I know Aurel. He's a fantastic and interesting guy. Pleasure to have met him.

Thanks for this Paul, is this an extract from another podcast? I can't see this "short" on the OFL website.

Terrific! wasn't aware of this place.

Great podcast, so informative!

The comment about the lark around the 4.5 minute mark makes me think of Flanders fields. "That marks our place, and in the sky, the Lark still bravely singing fly."

Excellent thanks as always 👏thanks for your hard work and have a happy healthy new year 🎉👏👏

My great great uncle was killed in France and was buried in Saint Mihiel. So I assumed he fought in the battle for Saint Mihiel. He was not.. some more digging and found that he was killed in the Aragonne offensive fighting with the 32nd. You definitely have to search and search.

Excellent work!

My fathers great grandfather died here on the 3rd September 2016. He was with the Cmrn Highlanders 1st battalion. I'm taking my father there to visit next August, hence my listening to your video as part of my research. Apparently, there was a machine gun nest and on the 3rd of September the British mined under it and blew it up, 30 seconds later the Cameron highlanders charged which led to hand to hand combat, where I believe my relative lost his life. His body wasn't recovered as it was another week and a half before the wood was taken. His name is engraved on the memorial at Thiepval now. Next August we'll be the first of our family to visit, we'll take a plant from our farm, which was his farm at that time, and plant it there for him. Rest in peace corporal William Yeaman. Now, to enjoy your video. Thank you!

He was a Rascal

Great Video, i think my Great Grandfathers Battalion wasnt on the front line during the Christmas day truce so they didnt take part in it. 1st Connaught Rangers, ferozepore brigade, 3rd Lahore Division, Indian Army Corps.

My grandfather was at this battle as a forward observer in the artillery. The following day a highland regiment was brought in to finish the task near Avesne Le Sec advancing towards Iwuy. He positioned himself in a stone windmill and was able to bring down artillery fire onto machine gun positions which were hidden behind the ridges of rolling terrain. The windmill was also hit and he was blown out and presumed dead but climbed back up to continue his task. For his actions he was awarded the Military Cross

Hi Paul, The images of Malcolm Grigg of LRB always intrigue me - such a timeless expression of youth. Later commissioned in Manchesters and killed at Trones Wood with 17th Bn 09/07/1916.

Very interesting thank you!

I often wonder, as a German American, how my great grandparents felt about the war in 1914. They were only in New York for a few years. I'm sure they knew many people fighting for the Kaiser.

I visited Fleury in 1974. In the center of what was the town, one of my companions found a complete Rosary. It was magnificent. Most certainly silver and gem stones. Just looked down and saw it in the mud. I found a hole in an earthen bank that turned out to be a basement entry to one of the erased houses. The hole widened out to a full hallway size. There were dozens of spiders hanging in that hallway that very much looked like Black Widows. Same everything, save for an hourglass. The hallway led to a room that was almost like meeting a ghost. Pictures on the wall, two French canteens hanging on the same peg. Table, with two chairs. It was amazing, and I'll never forget how it gave the appearance of the previous occupants just missing me.

Were the monuments destroyed during the Nazi occupation in WW2? Thank you for this- my great grandfather fought with the AEF 37th Infantry Division.

The final scene was magnificent in regards to the disconect between the lived experiences of the front line soldiers and the civilians at home who could never understand the horrible reality they had witnessed . But that's the nature of civilisation - a thin veneer that disguises a horrific reality just below the surface that we all try to ignore or blot out ..just another version of Joseph Conrad's ''Heart of Darkness'' ...the horror..THE HORROR ! But instead of a steamboat journey up the congo river , it's a steamship journey across the English Channel to the killing fields of France . Apocalypse Now !

The film portrays the soldiers as gullible victims instead of the victors they surely saw themselves as ; after all they had defeated the ''Hun'' and saved Europe from Prussian Militarism . 1918 was the british army's finest hour of ww1, so I don't supose they saw themselves much different from the victorious warriors of ww2, as they had done their bit by stopping the the barborous Germans the first time around ; their sons generation had completed the task in 1945

Thank you for remembering these men.

Great information!

I'm lucky enough to have a copy of 'Bullets and Billets' signed by Bruce Bairnsfather. Its a great book about that first winter in the trenches. I have an interest in the 1st Royal Irish Rifles who took part in the truce. Unfortunately, a lot of the men of the battalion who were involved were killed in the attacks at Neuve Chapelle the following March, and Rouges Bancs in the May. By the way, that was a cracking postcard of the LRB in their greatcoats!

Have a good Christmas Paul Excellent podcast yet again.👍

Great video, very interesting especially to see the photo of Private Gardiner may he rest in peace.