Somme: Redan Ridge - Old Front Line Podcast
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
- We travel to the familiar landscape of Picardy and visit one part of the ‘Forgotten Somme’ - the battlefields on the Redan Ridge. Here we see look at the fighting on 1st July 1916 and at the end of the battle in November 1916, examine the story of a soldier ‘Shot at Dawn’ and discuss the writer H.H. Munro (‘Saki’) who fell here during the Battle of the Somme.
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Really enjoyed listening to this podcast it’s like a book you never want to put down. Thank you Paul for helping me understand the Redan Ridge better, very interesting and informative was picturing your walk as I listened, great stuff 👍
That’s very kind, thank you.
I walked there a few times, last summer, but also this winter,when it was cold and wet, and you can almost feel what really happened there. Thank you again for a very interesting upload!
Thanks, yes the battlefields have an amazing atmosphere to them.
Very good summery of an awful day Out of interest have you ever taken a Light Aircraft over the Somme I fly a light aircraft and a group of us decided to see the WW1 in France from the Sky Its a great experience taking a trench map into the sky and looking at the locations over 100 ahead The views of the ground are stunning and the the trench lines can still be seen from the air Today a helicopter would be even better if you hired one just a thought it would make a very good video presention and a bit different flying over the sunken lane and up to the hawthorn crater is something special Its the very view a RFC pilot would have seen in WW1
I have been up over them in an aircraft and have also taken my Drone up above them too.
@@OldFrontLine could you not do a video from the air
@@Jeffybonbon I’ve got some drone videos on this channel but it’s something I may return to, as ever it’s time really.
@@OldFrontLine Can I suggest finding an RFC Airfield and then a flight over the somme showing the work the RFC did on the 1 July 1916 i have never seen the topic covered and it would put a difertant perspective on the day
@@OldFrontLine This is the airfield i use but its not WW1 it was used by british and germans in ww2 Helicopters fly from the airfield have a look and it might give you some pointers fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/A%C3%A9rodrome_d'Abbeville?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
When you walk the battlefields of The Somme, do you ever come across any remaining strands of barbed wire? Somehow, the barbed wire is the most poignant feature, in my mind, of the treachery, futility and horror of that battle.
Yes I find it a lot, and not just on the Somme, on every battlefield. Some of it is amazingly thick and dangerous even now.