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🗓️ 12 November 2022
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0:00.0 | Along the pathways of the old front line, we find the cemeteries of the Great War, |
0:07.0 | those silent cities, as Rajar Kipling called them, where the dead of the Great War stand |
0:14.0 | forevermore. For this period of annual remembrance, we visit five little-known cemeteries of the First World War. |
0:21.6 | As the last leaves fall from the trees and we're greeted by crisp November mornings, |
0:30.6 | it's that time once more to remember. |
0:34.6 | Armistice Day approaches and remembrance Sunday. It's that time when we stop and pause, |
0:41.8 | and we remember those in our own family tree who connect us to the Great War. But we remember, too, |
0:49.4 | our travels along the old front line, the places we've seen. And I think that always adds something, |
0:56.5 | a different dimension almost, to the way that we remember once we've visited those battlefields |
1:03.8 | of the Great War. This year I won't be in Flanders or the Somme for the 11th of November. |
1:10.1 | I'll be here in South Yorkshire, |
1:12.5 | but my mind will wander across to those places and I'll think of the trips that I've made |
1:16.6 | this year and trips that are yet to come. For 11 o'clock I'll walk down to the war graves in our local |
1:23.3 | churchyard and I'll pass the houses of men who fell at Arras, at Thiepval in the fighting at |
1:31.0 | Third Eap. The Great War is all around us, is ever present in so many ways. And on that landscape |
1:39.3 | of the Great War, what we find are the cemeteries, the soldiers' cemeteries. |
1:45.2 | Kipling called them the silent cities, but they're not just British cemeteries scattered |
1:49.5 | across the old front line. |
1:51.3 | There are men from many, so many nations buried in the war cemeteries, from Flanders down |
1:57.6 | to the Vosges. |
1:58.9 | And in this episode, for Remem for remembrance we'll take a look at five |
2:03.6 | different cemeteries from five different nations which might inspire you to take your |
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