Somme - The Stahlhelm, the Casque Adrian, and the Tin Hat Pt. 2

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Mike Cunha

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4.8 • 812 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this second part of The Stahlhelm, the Casque Adrian, and the Tin Hat, we take a look at the British soldiers preparing themselves for the Battle of the Somme. The British Expeditionary Force of 1916 was vastly different from the Old Contemptibles who had come across the Channel in 1914, and this was a very different army from its German adversary and even its French ally.

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0:00.0	A lot of men talked of death and dying.
0:05.4	We knew a lot of us would not come back, but we just had to accept it.
0:11.1	Lance Corporal Marshall, 11th Service Battalion East Lancashire Regiment, aka the
0:18.0	Ackrington Pals, Psalm 1916.
0:21.8	Hey folks, hello and welcome to the Battles of the First World War podcast episode 5,
0:41.4	Psalm, the Stahlhelm, the Tin Hat, and the Kosk Adrian, Part 2.
0:49.1	In part one, we took a look at the German soldier getting ready to face the Allied onslaught on the Somme,
0:57.2	as well as the elaborate and thorough defenses put up by the German army on the Somme front.
1:04.3	We also took a brief look at the French soldier on the Somme and how the French 6th Army was laying waste to the German
1:12.7	lines south of Maricot and all the way down to the village of Fay. Today, we'll take a look
1:20.4	at the British soldier in 1916 as he and thousands of his mates readied themselves for the much anticipated big push.
1:32.9	An admin note.
1:35.3	My apologies to anyone who has tried to use the map page on the podcast website,
1:42.0	www.
1:43.0	First World War www. www.1stworldwarpodcast.com.
1:47.7	Putting up a cool Google Map
1:49.5	has been bloody troublesome to me.
1:53.7	In the meantime,
1:54.8	if you listen to the podcast
1:56.0	and aren't moving,
1:58.3	focus Google Maps
1:59.5	towards Albert, France, and then go from there.
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