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.

Welcome to a special question and answer episode of the old front line podcast, where we're going to

feature questions connected to researching service men and women in the Great War.

And I've received a lot of questions about this subject covering soldiers of different nations,

and rather than add them to the usual Q&A episodes, I thought we'd do this special episode

for the end of season seven of the podcast, focusing just on this one subject, and also

marking 20 episodes of Q&As, which is incredible. I started this as a kind of experiment to see if there was any interest in questions and answers

because I was getting a lot of them through email, and now it's pretty much turned into

a mainstream part of the podcast, and I continue to get great questions from you, which you can

send in via email or the Discord server and details of

that are in the show notes and I get a lot of positive feedback about the Q&A episodes and the

listening figures certainly show that you're interested in them so long may these continue

now to begin this look at First World War ancestors,

and that is what brings many of us to the subject of the Great War in the first place

and how to research them, where do you, where should you begin your research if you haven't done already? And that literally is on

your own front doorstep within your own family. Find out what remains in your family archives,

if you like. Is it photographs? Is it medals? And they'll be named, engraved with the details of the serviceman

or woman who they commemorates.

You might have a bronze memorial plaque, you might have discharge documents or letters from

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