The Old Front Line

By: Paul Reed
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  • Walk the battlefields of the First World War with Military Historian, Paul Reed. In these podcasts, Paul brings together over 40 years of studying the Great War, from the stories of veterans he interviewed, to when he spent more than a decade living on the Old Front Line in the heart of the Somme battlefields.

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  • Walking the Somme: Mailly-Maillet

    Walking the Somme: Mailly-Maillet
    Jan 11 2025

    We begin Season 8 back on the Somme Battlefields of 1916 and walk the ground around the village of Mailly-Maillet, located just behind the British trenches in front of Beaumont-Hamel and Serre and later much closer to the fighting in 1918. We visit cemeteries, see original graffiti and end our walk close to the final approach to the battlefield.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Questions and Answers Special: WW1 Ancestors

    Questions and Answers Special: WW1 Ancestors
    Dec 28 2024

    In this special edition we look at how trace to service men and women who fought and died in the Great War. We cover a number of questions covering different aspects of how to trace your WW1 Ancestors from many different nations, but in particular from Britain and the Commonwealth.

    USEFUL LINKS:

    Western Front Association Pension Files website

    Grand Memorial - Tracing French WW1 Records

    French War Diaries - WW1

    Long, Long Trail website - Chris Baker

    London Gazette - WW1 Notices

    The British Newspaper Archive

    QMAAC WW1 Records

    British Nurses Records WW1

    VAD Red Cross Records WW1

    Women's Land Army website

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    48 mins
  • Five Iconic Objects of Trench Warfare

    Five Iconic Objects of Trench Warfare
    Dec 21 2024

    In this episode, we examine five iconic objects from the First World War which came to define the experience of Trench Warfare. These objects include barbed wire, helmets, duckboards, and trench periscopes. There is also a surprise artefact that millions of men carried onto the battlefield.

    If you are interested in Trench Warfare also check out The Western Front: WW1 Trench Warfare, Why Was there Trench Warfare in WW1? and Five Weapons of Trench Warfare.

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    1 hr and 24 mins

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Fascinating and engaging

Paul Reed, a battlefield guide, makes learning about the First World War easy and interesting. His easy conversational style brings the battlefields, the events and the individual soldiers vividly to life in front of the listener, and his passion for the subject really shines through.

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