The Somme village of Villasbretano marked the final approach to the city of Amia,

Germany's great prize in the spring of 1918.

Here, Australian and British soldiers made their stand.

Here tanks fought tanks for the first time, and from here many decades later,

Australia would recover its unknown soldier. What do we find today of Villas Bresenau?

We recently had a very good podcast supporters evening where we commemorated the 105th anniversary of the third Battle of Eap, often known as the Battle of Passiondown.

And we looked at some aspects of the fighting and some images, private images taken by soldiers who were there and some photographs connected to terrible

destruction that took place on that landscape during the year 1917.

These podcast supporters evenings that we have are for our supporters on Buy Me a Coffee

and Patreon and occasionally we open them up to everyone and there will be one of those coming up fairly soon, I hope.

If you want to support the podcast, you can do that simply by doing what you're doing now,

by listening to the podcast.

And the listening figures and your continued support by downloading the podcast is greatly appreciated.

But if you wanted to extend your support by going to Buy Me a Coffee or Patreon, then how does that work? You just simply log on to those websites and with Buy Me a Coffee you can make a one-off donation and with Patreon you can pledge an amount every month.

And to say thank you for your support, then we have these monthly supporters evenings.

A couple of months ago, we did a live stream from Eap at the many gates.

And with some trips coming up in the autumn, I certainly hope to repeat that to do a live stream from a battlefield location somewhere on the Western Front. And in addition to that, I'm aiming to bring in a

regular newsletter for our podcast supporters, which will feature some news from the battlefield, some

articles, and you'll be able to contribute an article

yourself to that if you want to, and hopefully I'll be able to share some of the photographs that

I've got in my private collection with you via that newsletter. So if you want to support the

podcast, you can go on to the links on the podcast website, oldfrontline.com.com. UK, where you'll find links to both

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