Tonight I'm joined by two great stalwarts of First World War history in Flanders.

Roger Stewart, Battlefield Guide, historian and author whose books on the aftermath of the Great War at Epe and the German

Cemetery at Langermark are First World War Classics in my view. And also Dominic Dendouven of the

in Flanders Fields Museum, himself an author who's cast light into so many different aspects of the lesser

known history of that conflict in Flanders fields.

And in this episode, we're going to discuss the demarcation stones that were placed on the

battlefields after the Great War to act as beacons to the conflict and look at their past,

present and future history and a special project relating to them as that comes into play. So good evening gentlemen. Welcome to the

podcast and thanks for joining us. Good evening, Paul. So I mean, first of all, I know you're both

working with the league, which is a kind of reincarnation of a much older organisation.

I don't know if you want to say something about that first.

Yeah, the New April League came about, really, after a discussion between myself and Dominic.

And we were looking at the future, really, you know, of commemoration in the proselyum.

And as time goes on, of course, the personalities involved get older and older and, you know,

they become less and less.

And we were a bit concerned, really, that, you know,

maybe in 15, 20 years time, that there wouldn't be, you know, many people doing this. So we thought

it was a very apt idea, I suppose, to reform the original April League, but in its new incarnation as the new April League,

bearing in mind and taking into account a lot of its original aims and objectives,

but also, of course, moving it forward, you know, as we believe the original

EPA League would have done, had it have continued, you know, post-World War II.

So that's the main reason why, you know, the new April League came into existence.

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