This weekend the podcast goes out marks the 110th anniversary of the Battle of Luz in 1915.

And a decade ago, I was on that battlefield commemorating the centenary of Luz and visiting dozens of locations with people who had family connections to them.

And that's always a privilege to do. This wasn't just people who had family members who were killed at Luz in 1915,

but in many cases there were people where grandfathers and great-grandfathers survived,

and the stories of their deeds have been passed down through those families,

and a century on they wanted to stand on that same ground.

This year, I won't make it out to lose,

but Luz and those wider battlefields across northern France

have always particularly fascinated me,

and we've covered quite a lot of them in episodes of the old front line.

They form an area that has become commonly known as the forgotten front,

the battlefields between Flanders and Arras and an area generally much less visited.

There are, of course, many forgotten fronts of the Great War, from Salonica to Mesopotamia and Palestine, but this is not those.

This is a part of the Western Front.

So what is the forgotten front and what does it mean?

And what does it tell us, I guess, about the battlefields

of the Great War and the experience and history of the Great War on the Western Front?

Back when I started my original old front line website, which is way back in 1999 in the early

days of the internet, and I was still living, of course then at Corsolet internet and I was still living at Corsolet

and in those days we accessed the internet via dial-up believe it or not I'd been reading

something during the preparation of putting that website together which contained information

about the battlefields and what to see

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