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Back to SearchSussex to the Somme: Lowther's Lambs
Season 3 Episode 4
In this episode, we follow the story of the Southdowns Battalions of the Royal Sussex, "Lowther's Lambs"; often seen as the nearest Sussex had to Pal…
4 years, 5 months ago
Somme105: The Battle of Flers-Courcelette
Season 3 Episode 3
Continuing with our look at the 105th Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, we examine the fighting on 15th September 1916, the Battle of Flers-Cou…
4 years, 5 months ago
Shot At Dawn
Season 3 Episode 2
More than 300 British and Commonwealth soldiers were executed 'for the sake of example' during the First World War, for crimes from desertion to stri…
4 years, 5 months ago
Walking the Somme: The Devonshire Cemetery
Season 3 Episode 1
After the fighting at Mametz on 1st July 1916, the Devonshire Regiment buried their dead in an old disused trench among the trees of Mansel Copse. He…
4 years, 5 months ago
Mons: A Bridge At Nimy
Season 2 Episode 35
In the final episode of Season 2, we look back at this season's podcasts and ahead to the future of The Old Front Line, and then travel to Belgium, t…
4 years, 6 months ago
Behind The Lines: The Crimson Coast
Season 2 Episode 34
The 'Crimson Coast' extended along the Northern French coast where the British Base Hospitals were located during the Great War. Here men shattered b…
4 years, 6 months ago
Walking the Somme: Mouquet Farm
Season 2 Episode 33
In this episode we walk the Somme from Ovillers to Mouquet Farm; 'Moo-Cow Farm' or 'Mucky Farm' as the soldiers called it. Here we examine the attack…
4 years, 6 months ago
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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 months ago