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. I've continued my

journey across the old front line in recent weeks with trips to the Hindenburg line and the Somme and in Flanders.

But recently I was on the battlefields of the next Great War of the Second World War, looking at the fighting in the Netherlands and in Germany in those final months from the breakout battles in the Netherlands

through to the crossing of the Rhine

and the final actions of April and May of 1945

leading up to victory in Europe Day, VE Day,

which of course is the 80th anniversary of that this year.

And over the years of working as a battlefield guide

being equally as interested in the Second World War as the first,

I've of course travelled to many of those battlefields

with veterans of that conflict

in the same way that I did with veterans of the Great War all those years ago.

And of course that kind of journey makes me think about veterans of both those great conflicts.

But as with the crisscross paths of the Great War, which we discover by walking and traveling

that landscape of the Western Front, I kind of also find that there are criss-cross pathways between those two

World Wars in so many ways. So being on a recie for a tour looking at World War II,

travelling through Germany, one of the things that I find are war memorials. And I was in the town of cellar where there is a very

nice war memorial to one of the local regiments with a Stahlhelm, a steel helmet on it, in a big

kind of circular memorial. I've been there before. But I found a new one this time. When we were

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