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Welcome to another question and answer episode, bonus episode of the Old Frontline podcast.

And it's a busy time for me as a battlefield guide and military historian with the 80th

anniversary of D-Day and a whole host of battlefield tours in June and July.

So for a couple of months, the podcast is going to go to buy weekly episodes with these bonus episodes, and I'm hoping the old dispatch is thrown in there too.

So plenty of content to keep you going.

And let's get down to this week's questions.

I'm really pleased to see the questions continue to come in on a regular basis.

A day doesn't go by when emails and messages on the Discord server don't come in with really fascinating questions.

Continue, certainly to fascinate me.

And I hope that some of these questions fascinate a wider audience too, and we've got some good ones in this episode.

So let's get down to that. Our first question is from Simon on email.

With all the miles of walking, you must have completed over the old front line.

You must have found many things that belong to soldiers along the way.

It would be interesting to know which is your best find and why, and if you found out anything

about the soldier it belonged to. Now that is an interesting question, Simon. And walking

those battlefields, kind of almost absorbing that landscape, you get connected to it in all kinds of way with what you see on that landscape with the cemeteries and the memorials and the traces, the ghostly traces of trenches in the fields.

But when you walk it throughout the course of a calendar year,

and when I live there, I saw it in every type of weather, from rain to baking hot sunshine,

to snow, you could see how that landscape changed. And with the plowing, with the change in in the landscape the detritus of war would

somehow emerge from that landscape the objects that connected you to the great war and of course

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