The Luz anniversary featured in the news at the end of September

with the re-barial of several soldiers from the 1915 fighting at Luz British Cemetery in the new extension there.

And these were men who'd been found on the Lent Hospital site close to the slopes of Hill 70.

Two of the soldiers had been identified and their stories were featured in a BBC News documentary

that featured the MOD war detectives and the work that they'd done to help identify the soldiers.

And it also featured quite extensive interviews with the families of those soldiers too.

It was a really well-made program and it's available on IPlayer.

And I'll put a link to it in the show notes

for this episode and the whole incident crosses over nicely really with the podcast episode on

the mOD team but also once more it shows how the pages of Great War history never stop turning, and that in itself

never ceases to amaze me. But let's get on to this week's questions. Question one comes from

Paul Burns on Patreon. Patreon is a means by which you can support the podcast and we've built

quite a nice little Great War old front line community there and quite a few unique things are

offered to those who support us via that method and you'll find details of that on the podcast website.

Paul asks, I am a newly intrigued person into the history of the

Great War and your podcast has opened up so much to me. Thanks for that Paul. He says,

my question will probably reflect that, but how did Hills get their numbers along the front line?

And was that number only used once in the whole of the line, i.e. Hill 80

near Eap means there could not be another Hill 80 anywhere else. Well, first of all, let's go back to maps in 1914.

When the British Expeditionary Force, the BF, came across to France at the very beginning of the Great War. It had maps,

maps that have been prepared by the War Office and using data provided by the Ordnance

Survey, which is the big mapping organisation in Great Britain. They in themselves had bought

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