WW1 Digger History Podcast

True accounts of the First World War / The Great War / WWI as told by the soldiers themselves!

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Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 40m. Bisher sind 113 Folge(n) erschienen. Alle 3 Wochen erscheint eine Folge dieses Podcasts.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 3 days 7 hours 38 minutes

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episode 21: Fritz gave us hell


Letters home about the Battle of Pozieres


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 March 28, 2017  13m
 
 

episode 20: The Battle of Pozieres


Drum-roll time ..... Here it is, The Battle of Pozieres. Percy drinks rum and smokes cigarettes and, those following the series know, things must be really bad for that to happen! He gets buried by a shell, dug out, digs others out ... some of them...


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 March 19, 2017  58m
 
 

episode 19: And should the Madonna fall!


Jack Prior almost gets himself killed, but many others succeed without trying. The boys are moved to the Somme and the Battle of Pozieres looms large before them. What a charming place, Percy describes the dugout he and his Russian born mate, Alex...


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 March 7, 2017  45m
 
 

episode 18: Gas, bombs and scared noobs


Stannard, Green, Hall, Wise etc etc all dead but why worry about that? Bad news from home worries Percy much more when he learns a couple girlfriends are drowned. Such is life!.... Hey, what a great title if only it hadn't been used before! Anyway,...


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 February 28, 2017  55m
 
 

episode 17: Stripped of a stripe


In this episode, one man gets his head blown off while gas alarms brings out, "goggle faced ogres," who, "moved about in the moonlight and the shadows." Percy mellows on the puritanical side, feeling sorrow for a bloke with VD, avoids getting into a...


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 February 17, 2017  40m
 
 

episode 16: Sniper to sniper


Well, finally Percy has us in the front line. Sniping and being sniped at, machine gun bullets over our heads in no-man's-land and heavy shelling behind the lines. Percy has no qualms about taking a dead man's water bottle or another's jack-knife....


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 February 7, 2017  40m
 
 

episode 15: Pity the 9th Battalion


Come with Percy into the reserve trenches at Sailly-sur-la Lys, which is near the soon to be infamous Fromelles. Listen to why Private Ogilvie nearly kills Private Williams and how does the 9th Battalion loses a lot of men without ever firing a shot!...


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 January 29, 2017  41m
 
 

episode 14: A pretty face like a girl


Who does Percy think looks like a girl? Find out when he sees out his time at Suez and then travels to France, dodging submarines and circling around Malta. Yes, we finally make it to France!


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 January 17, 2017  31m
 
 

episode 13: Percy gets a stripe


Thirsty, huh, Perc? Chase after that "furphy" water wagon and watch out for the dead man's bones out in the desert. Percy does some time near the Suez Canal but when will they go to France? Oh, and yes he does get that elusive stripe.


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 January 10, 2017  25m
 
 

episode 12: A walk in the desert


Well do something Percy! He does, he goes to Egypt, meets up with his brother Vern, marches around the desert, looks at old battlefields and studies to become a non commissioned officer. This episode was re-recorded in May 2019.


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 December 26, 2016  31m