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In this latest @OldFrontLinePod QnA Episode we examine: observation balloons on the Western Front, white feathers, were there minefields on the battlefield, and trench foot.
https://t.co/VxAx2qY4W2
Quick canter up the adventure park track before the weather turns. Caught up on @OldFrontLinePod . Always enjoy listening when here as the landscape reminds me a bit of the Western Front as its plantation forest, lots of housing development around
Thanks to all who joined me for a @OldFrontLinePod Podcast Supporters Evening tonight where we looked at #WW1 images connected to the build-up on the Somme in June 1916. (Photo colourised by @colour_history)
Thunder in the Mountains: in this latest @OldFrontLinePod we are joined by @masaccio60 to discuss his remarkable new book on the Italian Front in #WW1.
https://t.co/YYYTSOp3aX
In the latest @OldFrontLinePod we examine missing soldiers, identity, nationality and trust in Alsace-Lorraine, landowners on the battlefields, and the worst casualty days of #WW1.
https://t.co/L4sc0OE1Vl
A newly installed board at Ferme de Navarin
It includes a first on the western front! a photograph of an unnamed soldier from the 315e RI.
But after digging through records, casualty lists and photos, we can narrow down who this man most likely was...
Thread below 🧵