Walking The Somme: Guillemont Road

The Old Front Line

Paul Reed

Education, History, Tv & Film, Film History

4.8 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In this episode we walk the Somme battlefields between Trônes Wood and the village of Guillemont. We follow the story of Noel Chavasse VC & Bar, the son of a Royal Academy artist, Raymond Asquith whose father was Prime Minister, and discover how the stories of men from either side of No Man's Land collided in a sunken lane. Our WW1 object is a small Old Comrades badge; what does it tell us about veterans of the Great War? Send us a text Support the show

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0:00.0	Welcome to the old front line with me military historian Paul Reed.
0:10.0	This is a regular podcast where we'll look at the history of the First World War and travel together across the battlefields from Eap to the Somme and beyond.
0:24.6	So what's in this week's episode?
0:26.6	Hi and welcome back to the Old Frontline.
0:29.6	I was hoping to bring you another episode from one of the forgotten battlefields of the Great War this week,
0:33.6	the battlefields around Luz, but a slight technical issue in the old front line dugout
0:39.3	means that instead we'll be returning to the haunting battlefields of the Somme in many respects my spiritual home.
0:47.3	And we're going to walk the battlefields between Troneswood and the village of Gillymont on the Somme.
0:53.3	But before we do that, thanks again for all your
0:56.1	feedback on Twitter and Facebook. I really appreciate the reviews that some of you have been
1:00.5	leaving there and also your comments on the Apple Podcasts page where you can leave a review
1:06.0	and like the podcast. And if you have another chance to do that, I'd really appreciate it if you
1:10.6	could. And don't forget we have the old frontline podcast website, which is... the podcast and if you have another chance to do that I'd really appreciate it if you could
1:10.8	and don't forget we have the old front line podcast website which is www.w.W.W. Dot's oldfrontline
1:17.5	dot co.uk. This week because of the dugout technical difficulties there may not be an immediate
1:23.6	page for this podcast but it will be up as soon as possible. So putting technology to
1:29.5	one side, it's time to once again strap on our boots and head out onto the battlefield to the
1:34.4	Great War. Off we go. We start on the roads between the villages of Montobar and Gilemon.
1:50.0	Montabarab was captured on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the 1st of July 1916, by Powers battalions of the 30th Division, the Manchester Powers and Liverpool Powers being very heavily involved in that battle.
1:58.0	They put some fighting patrols out into the neighbouring Bernerfei wood, but that was not
2:02.2	finally taken until a few days later, and then gradually the assaults moved towards Troneswood,
2:08.5	where we are now. Troneswood was a big pear-shaped woods. Martin Middlebrook coined this phrase
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