Our latest questions from podcast listeners discuss what role German steel helmets, Stahlhelm, had on the First Day of the Somme, how did Great War veterans feel about WW2, how were women who fell pregnant from British soldiers treated during the conflict, and when we visit British and Commonwealth cemeteries are we walking over the graves of those buried there?

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As the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme approaches, we walk part of the battlefield across the iconic Mash Valley, visit Ovillers Military Cemetery and walk through Ovillers village to the far end of the valley facing the Pozières Ridge.

Alf Razzell discusses the burial of the dead at Ovillers: A Game of Ghosts.

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Our latest questions from listeners range from could Britain have stood back from conflict in 1914 and not been part of the Great War, how accurate was the final dugout scene in the film 1917, what duties did Royal Field Artillery Drivers have on the battlefields of WW1 and what was the story of the Canadian soldiers who rioted in Britain in 1919 while awaiting demobilisation?

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Recommended novel on 1914: Robert Harris - Precipice (Penguin 2024)

Books on The Canadian Riots:

• The story of the Kinmel Park Camp Riots in 1919 by Julian Putkowski (1989)
• Riots Death and Baseball - Robert H. Griffiths (2019)

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