Last week we looked at the missing of the Great War, those who had no known grave.

And in our latest trench chat we're joined by historian John Broome, who has a book on this subject coming out in October.

Welcome to another trench chat on the old front line.

I'm really pleased this week to be joined by John Broome,

a Sheffield-based military historian and writer,

who's got a book coming out on the missing of the Great War.

John, can you tell us a bit about how you got interested in the First World War

and where your research for this book began?

Well, my interest in this particular area, Paul, started probably seven years ago on a trip down to Dorset.

And the wife and I drove outside of church, as we frequently do, to look at the war memorial.

And on that war memorial, we listed 10 names. And I noted that three of them had the same

surname. So I did a little bit of internet research and found they were brothers. And another one of

the names listed on there was a brother-in-law. So after further digging around, I found out that two of those brothers had been lost during the Great War and their bodies never recovered.

I managed to find a book that had been published in 1920, a book of remembrance about the whole family, the surname Pope.

The father, the patriarch of the family was a major brewer in Dorchester.

There was a Justice of the Peace and owned various large tracts of land around the town.

And he'd commissioned one of his own sons-in-law, a vicar, to write a book of remembrance

and a book of admiration for all the contributions that his ten sons, three daughters,

and three sons-in-law have made to the Great War.

And I managed to track down a descendant of Alfred Pope,

who had, in his possession, a vast archive of letters that Alfred had written, and his wife

Elizabeth had written, trying to find out the whereabouts of their son, Lieutenant Percy Paris Pope,

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