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The Old Front Line

Questions and Answers Episode 12

The Old Front Line

Paul Reed

Education, History, Tv & Film, Film History

4.8637 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this latest Question and Answer Episode we look at several questions about the changing nature of the British Army in the Great War, and its Regimental system, examine one aspect of how WW1 meets WW2 and discuss whether it is possible to trace a fatal casualty for every day of the Great War. The image for this episode shows British tanks passing Villers Bretonneux Military Cemetery on the Somme in September 1944. (IWM BU 272) Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your quest...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to some more questions and answers here on the old front line.

0:07.6

These are questions submitted by you, the podcast, listeners,

0:11.4

and each month we select some of the best questions that have been submitted via email and the Discord server to answer here and hopefully give us all fresh perspectives

0:24.4

and new knowledge of this vast subject of the Great War.

0:29.3

So let's begin.

0:32.6

After a summer break, we're back with Season 7 of the old front line podcast and we're resuming our

0:41.4

very popular question and answer episodes where you the listeners can submit questions and i do my

0:49.6

best to answer them and the kind of feedback i'm getting on these is very, very positive. People like

0:56.5

the fact that we tackle subjects in a concise and kind of short way, but then with the possibility

1:04.0

perhaps further down the line of having an entire podcast on that subject. And yes, I know I'm always promising new episodes,

1:12.8

but it's all food for thought.

1:15.0

And hopefully one or two of you emailed me over the summer break and said,

1:19.1

are you running out of ideas?

1:20.4

Is that why you're having a break?

1:21.6

That wasn't the reason at all.

1:23.3

I've just had a very busy period.

1:25.1

I needed a holiday, which I did have.

1:26.8

And I couldn't entirely get away from the Great Warriors.

1:29.5

Perhaps I'll return to on the podcast, but there's no shortage of ideas out there and no shortage of subjects for us to cover.

1:39.7

So all of our questions this week have been submitted via email.

1:43.8

There's two main ways that you can submit a question.

1:47.1

One is by email.

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