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Third Ypres Remembered
Season 2 Episode 32
On 31st July 1917 the Third Battle of Ypres - or the Battle of Passchendaele as it is often called - began with an attack on a forteen mile front nea…
4 years, 5 months ago
The Loos Memorial
Season 2 Episode 31
the heart of the Loos Battlefield. Here we look at the fighting in this part of the Western Front, the background to the Missing, and examine some st…
4 years, 5 months ago
Somme 105: The Battle Continues
Season 2 Episode 30
As the Battle of the Somme continued, it took the British Army into the 'Horseshoe of Woods' that characterised the next phase of the fighting here i…
4 years, 5 months ago
The Western Front: WW1 Trench Warfare
Season 2 Episode 29
The Great War went from a mobile war in 1914 to a static conflict with hundreds of miles of trenches across France and Flanders. How did trench warfa…
4 years, 6 months ago
Walking Ypres: Wieltje to the Steenbeek River
Season 2 Episode 28
In this episode, we look at how the Northumbrian Territorials were thrown into battle at Ypres in April 1915, look at Wieltje as a front line village…
4 years, 6 months ago
Somme 105th Anniversary
Season 2 Episode 27
Today is the 105th Anniversary of the First Day of the Battle of the Somme. The battle began on this day at 7.30 am, when the British soldiers went O…
4 years, 6 months ago
Walking The Somme: High Wood
Season 2 Episode 26
High Wood was one of the most fought-over corners of the Somme battlefields in 1916. We take a walk from Caterpillar Valley Cemetery via Longueval, t…
4 years, 6 months ago
Walking Ypres: Plugstreet Wood
Season 2 Episode 25
South of the city of Ypres in Belgium, a large area of woodland was swallowed up in the fighting of 1914. For the next four years, the British and Co…
4 years, 6 months ago
Trench Chat: Canadian Remembrance Tourism with Samantha Cowan
Season 2 Episode 24
In this 'Trench Chat' we talk to Canadian Tour operator Samantha Cowan about battlefield tourism coming to the Great War battlefields from Canada. Wh…
4 years, 6 months ago
Walking Arras: The Pals at Oppy Wood
Season 2 Episode 23
The story of the Northern Pals battalions who marched to war in 1914 is forever linked to the Somme, but their war continued and in May 1917 they fou…
4 years, 7 months ago