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

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

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

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

So let's begin.

Over the past few months, I've been pleasantly surprised at the breadth and range of questions that you're

sending in for these question and answer episodes. I kind of launched it as a bit of a experiment,

but it's become a really important part of what we do with the old Frontline podcast podcast and we're now at nearly 20 different episodes

of Q&As and they're coming in on a regular basis thank you for that and remember there's two

main ways for you to do that which is to send one in via email or via the old front line Discord server

and its links to both of those in the show notes for this episode.

And one of the things that comes up quite regularly with questions

are questions about researching individual soldiers.

And I'm either going to do a special Q&A episode down the line

where we kind of go through some of the common themes that you ask about

or I might even do a podcast episode based around some of those questions.

We'll kind of see how it works out.

But if there is a question

that you've got in relation to individual soldier research, get that in in the next few weeks,

and it'll be sometime probably either just before or just after Christmas that I do that episode.

So let's get down to this week's questions and our first question is on email

and it comes from Mark Ebery. Mark asks, I'd be very interested to know more about how the men at the

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