Questions and Answers Episode 13

The Old Front Line

Paul Reed

Education, History, Tv & Film, Film History

4.8 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This week we answer questions about British Prisoners of War held in Switzerland, ask what kind of permission you need to explore the fields and woods across the landscape of the Great War, discuss if any Estaminets survive from the Great War and look at events on the Somme on 1st July 1916 and what the experience of soldiers was on that evening as darkness fell. Red Cross Records from WW1 are found here: Red Cross Prisoner of War Records. Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop...

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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.
0:32.1	It's another round of questions and answers here on the old frontline podcast and as always you can submit your questions and answers here on the old front line podcast. And as always, you can submit your
0:40.6	questions and lots and lots continue to come in, which many thanks for that and do keep them
0:48.2	coming. So you can submit them via two main methods. One of them is via email and all of the questions in this week's
0:55.9	Q&As come via email or via the Discord server, which is a bit of software. You can log on,
1:01.2	a bit like a chat room and you can go on there and you can leave a question there as well.
1:07.3	Links to both of those are in the show notes and on the podcast website telling you how to do it.
1:15.7	You just click on the link and it will take you straight through, whether email or Discord server.
1:20.7	You can also send in fan mail, which is a new thing put out there by Buzz Sprout, and that sends me a text basically through their system
1:30.9	and I can look at the question that way but email and Discord probably the easiest ways so
1:36.9	let's move on to this week's questions and we've got four really good ones and the first of those
1:43.8	comes from Jim Hegarty on email.
1:47.9	Jim says I'm a big fan of the podcast from Sydney, Australia.
1:51.5	With regards to interests regarding subjects away from the SOM, I wondered if your listeners
1:56.3	would be interested in part of the 1914-18 war that is not commonly known, particularly in the humanity
2:02.7	shown by both sides in a horrific conflict. My grandfather, Edward Topham, 17th Lancers, was
2:08.8	taken prisoner somewhere on the Western Front, and then I assume transported from a German
2:13.3	camp to Murren in Switzerland as an interne. Please find a photograph taken outside the Hotel
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