Footsteps of the fallen

Gallery

On this page, you will find supporting pictures, maps or historical documents, etc which are linked to a particular podcast.

Hill 70

Bois Grenier

The walking route for this podcast

Delville to Courcelette

The walking route
The horseshore of woods

The Brickstacks

The walking route for the Cuinchy battlefield

Fromelles

Cobbers – the Australian Memorial Park, Fromelles
Le Trou Aid Post
VC Corner Cemetery and Memorial

We don’t take umbrellas to war….

A kite balloon as used for weather measurements by Meteor
The first surviving military weather forecast handwritten by Ernest Gold
Meteor flight – Marden in the cockpit, Sessions standing next to the Meteor FK8. Note the shooting star emblem on the fuselage.

Neuve Chappelle

The walking route
An aerial photo of the Neuve Chappelle battlefield showing the Bois de Biez. The village is top left centre.
The Moated Grange farm as seen today
A German machine gunners view from the Layes Bridge redoubt
The fields in which Gobar Singh Negi won the first VC for the Indian Corps

23/02/2025 – Hohenzollern

Approximate view of the Hohenzollern trench system
Walking route followed in the podcast

23/04/2023 – Conchies, the men who wouldn’t fight

Conchie Road – Dartmoor
Fenner Brockway – founder of the NCF
Jack Sadler – CO in two World Wars
The popular view of a CO as seen in the press
Walter Roberts -the first CO to die in prison

26/02/23 – Six magnificent memorials

12/02/23 – Trival, Treatable, Terrible

Outside an ADS
A base hopsital
Casualty Clearing Station
Harold Gillies
Henry Dakin and Alexis Carrel
John Singer Sergeant – Gassed