We often say on this podcast how the pages of Great War history continue to turn, and that's

especially true with the work of the MOD War Detectives. In this special trench chat, we discover

more about the work they do to recover the dead from the landscape of the First World War.

Welcome to a very special trench chat and I'm absolutely delighted and honored to be joined by the MOD war detectives.

That's the name by which they're known widely through the media and through the work that they do.

Officially, they are the Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre Commemorations Team.

And I'm really pleased to be joined by Rosie Barron, Nicola Nash and Alexia Clark.

So thank you all for joining us here.

And I know for a fact that the people who listen to this podcast

will be absolutely fascinated to discover more about the work that you do. So thanks for joining

us. Thank you very. So in terms of kind of what you do, I often say on the podcast that the

pages of First World War history never stop turning, that there is always something

happening and something that we discover. And I think the kind of work that you do very much

typifies that because you are continuing to write those pages of First World War history

through what you do. Absolutely. I think part of our role is finishing the stories of

men whose stories stopped at the point that they weren't missing. It's nice to be able to bring a

conclusion, both for them and for their surviving families now. So it's also nice for us to be

able to tell the stories of these men,

because a lot of the men that we do discover are, you know, sort of private, the everyday kind of,

you know, men that were, you know, volunteered or conscripted, you know, so to be able to tell

their stories as well is really important to us.

And it's about drilling down to an individual story.

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