Questions and Answers Episode 51 In this in-depth Questions & Answers episode of The Old Front Line, we tackle four fascinating listener questions exploring the aftermath and realities of the First World War. We begin in the Ypres Salient, examining how the Commonwealth War Graves Commission replaced thousands of temporary wooden crosses with the iconic headstones we see today. How was this monumental task organised?

In the latest Questions and Answers Episode: from the Ypres Salient headstones of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to machine gun barrages, CCS burials Behind The Lines, and post-war land recovery in France & Belgium: we answer your questions.

Titanic at Southampton embarking upon her maiden voyage.

On this day 114 years ago, at noon on 10 April 1912, Titanic began her maiden voyage from her home port of Southampton to New York.

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Brocton Camp is there, there of course were others further down towards Rugely & Penkridge. Obviously massive links with JRR Tolkien and there's some info on him in the hut

Thats sad as there is a wonderful diorama in there showing the training camps, Pow camps & hospitals. You go up camp road then turn onto Chase Road..park at the Glaciel Boulder car park. Camp began there.Walk up the road & camp was on left & right,lots of remains on right. Also Freda's grave there

Wonderful place to visit.. Did you manage to take them upto the Chase to view the remains of one of the training camps & see the deer roaming free?

109 years ago the Battle of Arras began. Terrible losses in horrendous weather conditions including blizzard conditions. Remembering all those who endured those conditions & those who never came home #WW1

Free tours of Hawthorn Ridge, Beaumont Hamel, sunken lane area available by appointment from Thursday, the 9th of April to Monday 13th April. Please contact chairman@hawthornridgeca.com or on +44 (0)7841834370

The title page of a pamphlet printed in York in 1739 regarding the trial and execution of the notorious highwayman Richard Turpin. The pamphlet details the trial of Richard Turpin on March 22, 1739, at York Assizes before Sir William Chapple,. It includes an exact account of Turpin from his arrival in Yorkshire until his imprisonment at York Castle. The document contains a copy of a letter to his father, details of his behavior at execution on April 7, 1739, and his confession to the hangman regarding robberies and murder

🧵On tomorrow's date, 7 April in 1739, Richard (Dick)Turpin, was executed in York. A violent criminal - not the romantic hero later legends made him out to be. Though often remembered as a dashing highwayman, Turpin was in reality a poacher, burglar, horse thief, and killer.

5 April 1944: the Japanese encirclement of Kohima is complete. Of the 2,500-strong garrison c.1,000 were non-combatant clerks, cooks, drivers etc, who picked up rifles to defend the position. Slim had expected a regiment to attack but a full Japanese division came instead.

📸IND3697 Kohima Ridge

Western Front Spring 1916 YouTube video by Old Front Line

The Wester Front Spring 1916: out latest Livestream over on the @oldfrontline.bsky.social #YouTube Channel:
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Corporal Herbert Easter, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, at rest in a cemetery on the Somme, France.

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Questions and Answers Episode 50 We are now 50 Q&As in, and the questions keep getting better, sharper, and more human! This milestone edition of The Old Front Line is built around four listener prompts that take us from the small, intimate scale of one soldier’s photograph to the vast, uneasy scale of a battlefield that never fully stops giving things back to the surface.

50 Q&As in! This latest Old Front Line episode explores personal soldier stories, Light Infantry traditions, and battlefield memory, from Ypres to Gettysburg, ending with the reality of iron harvests, reburials, and a landscape that still gives up its past today.

Lovely item that Sandra

Fantastic work yet again by all involved. I'm down there this weekend so will try to fit in a visit

Wow, like a ghost ship

114 years on, Belfast witnesses an incredible full-scale drone Titanic depart into the night once more.

This beer always goes down well. Lovely atmosphere & what a beer collection

A very wet miserable day but managed to get out for a few drinks in Halifax at Kobenhavn & then the wonderful Victorian craft beer cafe for probably THE best Belgian Tripel #beeroclock

I picked another random chap buried there, he was lost with his fellow airman after a raid on a location on the German Baltic coast! I guess some went off course or had to do a circuit to get back especially if damaged. Budapest is where all CWGC graves are concentrated from across Hungary

Colonel Driant’s Command Post In this episode of The Old Front Line, we explore the dramatic opening moments of the Battle of Verdun, focusing on the heroic stand of Lieutenant Colonel Émile Driant and his m…

In the latest @oldfrontline.bsky.social we examine Lieutenant Colonel Émile Driant and his stand in the Bois des Caures during the opening phase of the Battle of Verdun in February 1916. We also visit to the battlefield today, 110 years later.

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From Bomber Command database there are 4 men who were lost without trace on 27th March 1945. 2 with 692 SQ Mosquito PF466 lost together in a raid on Berlin (Likely)the other 2 were 605 SQ Mosquito HR206 raid on Munster (Unlikely due to distance)

Going down a rabbit hole now! Interesting report is amended to say British Airman

Have a great time! Just about to drop off my stepson at school, they're on their way to Ypres tomorrow for 3 days

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Starting the little man on History at an early age, you should be pleased 😂😂

Do I know anyone heading to the National Archives before the end of the month at all? If so I have a little favour to ask pretty please.

Remembering my cousin Sjt James C Lucas 2/6 Lancs Fus. Died of wounds OTD 1918 at CCS after attempting to defend Templeux Le Gurerad against German Spring Offensive.Pre war he was Sjt in Church Lads Brigade in Middleton, Rochdale #ww1

Perfect time! Love it early morning or late evening feels like just you & the ghosts

Questions and Answers Episode 49 In this Old Front Line Q&A episode, we tackle a fascinating range of questions from listeners about life, death, and survival on the battlefields of the First World War. We begin by exploring whether veterans of the conflict were ever allowed to be buried within the official war cemeteries alongside the comrades who fell during the war, and look at the rules established by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission after the creation of the Imperial War Graves system.

In this latest Q&A episode, we ask could veterans ever be buried alongside their fallen comrades in official war cemeteries, what was the role of snipers on the Western Front, how did Stretcher Bearers cope in the conditions of Third Ypres and examine what books to read on this iconic battle?

Incredible reflection. Longing to be there right now

21 March 1918, my 24 yr old Gt Uncle, Cpl Hugh Robinson, Lancs Fusiliers, was KIA on the opening day of the Spring Offensive. A Territorial, he left for Egypt in Sept 1914, was wounded at Gallipoli, fought at Passchendaele and must have seen so much horror. His mother always wore his photograph.