Somme - Casualty Notices

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Mike Cunha

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4.8 • 812 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A brief look at the home fronts of the three main belligerents on the Somme, with focus on the British.

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0:00.0	Earlier in the week, a train full of wounded stopped outside Akrington Station.
0:09.9	A voice shouted to a group of women,
0:12.6	Where are we?
0:14.1	Accrington.
0:15.6	Accrington.
0:16.9	The Akrington Pals.
0:18.6	They've been wiped out.
0:21.9	Recollection of Miss Edith Roughsedge from the book, Ackrington Pals by William Turner, July 1916. Hey folks, welcome to the battles of the First World War podcast episode 21, Psalm, Casualty Notices.
0:57.0	I want to start by giving a shout out to our first patron on Patreon, listener David.
1:08.0	Thank you so much for becoming a patron. I am deeply grateful. If you would like to join
1:15.0	David and become a patron as well, please see the link provided in the episode description.
1:21.2	It's patreon.com slash battles of the first world war podcast.
1:34.5	Also, a heartfelt thanks for the recent reviews and one-time donations.
1:37.8	Again, I am deeply grateful.
1:46.1	Donations go towards server-based maintenance and the acquisition of new Intel for future episodes.
1:52.9	Your reviews help strengthen and deepen our trenches on iTunes.
2:03.1	Reviews also help guide more podcast listeners through our lanes in the thick barbed wire fields into our lines where our numbers will grow. So thanks to all of you out there who have done your bit for
2:10.4	the BFWP. This episode, we are actually leaving the trenches in Picardy.
2:21.0	We're going to take a brief and flyover type look at how the homefronts of the three main belligerents on the Somme, the French, the Germans Germans, and the British were weathering the terrible hurricane
2:38.3	of blood and steel that was sweeping the world.
2:45.8	The Battle of the Somme was an ongoing battle, the likes of which, with its twin, Verdun, were new to the world.
2:55.7	The amount of material used on the battlefields in order to kill maim and dismember men by the thousands and tens of thousands was nearly incomprehensible to the human mind, those that
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