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🗓️ 6 December 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Dispatches, a short-form podcast from the Old Frontline, and me, military historian Paul Reed. |
0:10.8 | In these shorter podcasts, we'll tell some of the quieter, smaller stories of the Great War, |
0:18.5 | will share books, look at original documents, and take dispatches on |
0:23.5 | the road and visit locations across that landscape of the Great War. |
0:32.8 | Welcome back to another Dispatches, a short form podcast from the old front line. |
0:40.0 | Here we tackle some of the smaller stories of the First World War |
0:43.9 | or take on some of the big ones and discuss them in a short amount of time, |
0:49.3 | hopefully prompting perhaps a longer episode down the road. |
0:54.3 | Now during the course of my move and unpacking all my Great War material, |
0:58.8 | it's prompted quite a lot of memories of visits across that landscape of the Western Front. |
1:04.2 | And in that very earliest visit that I made in 1982 with my school, |
1:09.7 | we went to the Sanctuary Wood Trench Museum at Hill 62 |
1:14.0 | near Eap in Flanders. |
1:17.1 | And it made me think about trench museums generally. |
1:20.4 | It's something that I've been interested in for quite a long time and have collected |
1:24.5 | quite a lot of photographs and postcards connected to the trench museums that once existed. |
1:32.7 | And going to Sanctuary Ward on that very first visit as a teenager had a great effect on me. |
1:39.7 | I mean, whenever you've read about the Great War, it is always about trenches. |
1:44.7 | And there, as an impressionable youngster, I actually walked into original trenches from the First World War. |
1:53.2 | And there I was in that landscape of the Western Front. |
1:57.9 | And it has a massive impact. |
1:59.4 | And I've seen that over the years by taking |
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