True accounts of the First World War / The Great War / WWI as told by the soldiers themselves!
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 3 days 7 hours 38 minutes
episode 30: Percy finds a jewel
There were almost 13,000 war brides to diggers in WW1 according to the Australian War Memorial. Brother Vern found Mary in Ireland, but what about Percy? Well, our Casanova finally meets his "one and only," but does he know it yet? There is one...
episode 24: Piano Man
A nice quiet little stint in the Ypres Salient for our armed plebeians is a prelude to a return to the Somme. Anyway, Perce has a fight with rats, dangling wires and a Tommy sentry before he realises that he and three mates were left behind. The boys...
episode 23: Hill 60 or Hell 60
What can I say. Nothing, Percy says it all. This time he goes from the Somme to the dreaded Hill 60 and back to the Somme. He sees his first tanks, there are more mates killed, etc! Enough said!
episode 22: Snipers at Moquet Farm
Well finally! My apologies at the lateness of this episode. family visiting, work, yada, yada yada (as Seinfeld might say). Anyhow, this one is another cracker with the boys fighting at Moquet Farm and then coming back out again.
Episode 1.3 Pink Patches
This is the lead up to Pozieres, from the Port of Marseilles, passing Fromelles and into the Somme. Some guys get shot by snipers, others blown up, you get the drift!