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Walking Cambrai: Gouzeaucourt 1917
Manage episode 467873991 series 2665206
We visit the Hindenburg Line battlefields of 1917 where the Battle of Cambrai was fought. We see the battlefield around Metz-en-Couture, visit the cemetery here and grave of Patrick Shaw-Stewart, and then walk down in Gouzeaucourt seeing a rare British bunker from WW1 and a memorial to the 11th Engineers of the US Army, ending on the high ground where the Welsh Guards counter-attacked in December 1917.
The book mentioned was Children of the Souls by Jeanne MacKenzie.
Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your question into the Old Front Line Discord Server or email the podcast.
238 episodes
Manage episode 467873991 series 2665206
We visit the Hindenburg Line battlefields of 1917 where the Battle of Cambrai was fought. We see the battlefield around Metz-en-Couture, visit the cemetery here and grave of Patrick Shaw-Stewart, and then walk down in Gouzeaucourt seeing a rare British bunker from WW1 and a memorial to the 11th Engineers of the US Army, ending on the high ground where the Welsh Guards counter-attacked in December 1917.
The book mentioned was Children of the Souls by Jeanne MacKenzie.
Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your question into the Old Front Line Discord Server or email the podcast.
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