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. This is our first question

and answer episode of season eight of the podcast and your questions continue to come in.

Again, I'm absolutely astonished by the breadth of the questions and the depth of the questions as well,

covering all kinds of different subjects. So keep those questions coming in.

There's been a lot of kind of follow-on response to the special that we did on World War I Army

Ancestors, and I'm sure we're going to return to aspects of that in future Q&A episodes.

But as always, if you want to send a question in, and there's no

such thing as a stupid question, so if there's something you've always wanted to ask, or you've

listened to episodes, and it's prompted some questions in your mind, send those questions in.

And you can do so via the two main methods, which is via the Discord server and via email.

And links to both of those are in the show notes of this episode.

So let's get down to our first question that comes from Roy Johnson from Norway on email,

and he asks, there is one topic I struggle to find knowledge about the quiet parts of

the western front that front was roughly 450 miles long with trench systems on both sides it would

be interesting to know a little more generally about the quiet parts of the front how was daily

life there what units manned these areas?

Was their rotation from active areas? And how big were the troop formations in these sectors?

Well, this is a great question. The remark novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, kind of gave that idea that there were quiet parts of the front where not a lot was happening. And if we look at all 450 miles of the Western Front that was formed during that first winter of the Great War of 1914-15, there was action along most parts of that front during that early phase of the Great War of 1914-15, there was action along most parts of that front

during that early phase of the conflict when the lines were established, the trenches were dug,

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