Walking Cambrai: Gouzeaucourt 1917

The Old Front Line

Paul Reed

Education, History, Tv & Film, Film History

4.8 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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We visit the Hindenburg Line battlefields of 1917 where the Battle of Cambrai was fought. We see the battlefield around Metz-en-Couture, visit the cemetery here and grave of Patrick Shaw-Stewart, and then walk down in Gouzeaucourt seeing a rare British bunker from WW1 and a memorial to the 11th Engineers of the US Army, ending on the high ground where the Welsh Guards counter-attacked in December 1917. The book mentioned was Children of the Souls by Jeanne MacKenzie. Got a question abou...

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0:00.0	On the Hindenburg Line battlefields of 1917, we discover the British advance to the main
0:08.5	Hindenburg line and the capture of a small village, the story of men from the guards and the
0:14.4	Royal Naval Division, uncover a British bunker from 1918, and the story of some American engineers who became the first
0:22.8	US army casualties on the Western Front in the Great War. This is what we find at Guzaukaw.
0:31.9	We're back on the Hindenburg Line battlefields in this episode, that ground where the Germans
0:37.3	withdrew to in early
0:39.1	1917 following the outcome of the Battle of the Somme and it was a scene of fighting
0:45.6	later in that year in many different parts of the British sector from Arras down to Saint-Contat
0:52.1	and of course around Combay and it's those Combay battlefields that we're close to in this episode.
0:59.6	And this episode as well marks a bit of a first for the podcast in that we've recently covered some of the places that we'll discuss and talk about here on our YouTube channel. The old front line
1:12.9	has a YouTube channel where we've got episodes of course of the podcast on there, but lots of
1:18.0	videos looking at different parts of the battlefields of the Great War. And the video that I made
1:25.1	recently in some pretty cold weather at the beginning of this year,
1:28.6	covering this ground between Mets and Guzaa Corr, and a little bit beyond that, is on the channel there,
1:34.2	and I'll embed that into the podcast website page for this episode.
1:40.5	So you can just go on to the podcast website, find the page for this episode, and you'll see the video there. Or you can go straight on to the podcast website. Find the page for this episode and you'll see
1:45.5	the video there or you can go straight on to the YouTube channel and you'll find the film there.
1:51.4	Now naturally these videos operate on one kind of level. They're not the podcasts. They're a visual
1:58.5	representation of some of the things that we do in the podcast.
2:01.8	They're much shorter than the podcast. It's quite interesting to see the average length that people
2:08.1	watch these things. Not that many get through to the end. And we're only talking about
2:12.9	seven to ten minutes in most of these films. It seems the kind of attention level of many viewers is pretty short.
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