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In the latest QnA Episode we ask: Why are some battlefields sacred? How did troops get through barbed wire? Who were the King's Edward's Horse? What happened after the Armistice?

Questions and Answers Episode 58In this episode of the Old Front Line Podcast, we answer another fascinating collection of listener questions that explore the people, places and practical realities of the First World War. We begin by asking why visitors can walk, play and live on some historic battlefields, such as the D-Day beaches, while places like Newfoundland Memorial Park on the Somme remain carefully preserved.oldfrontline.co.uk

A LARGE crowd gathered yesterday for the unveiling of a new life-size statue to commemorate a military milestone. Here at #Colchester Civic Society we're proud to have supported this wonderful project. More: www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/2642720... Photos: 16 AAB & Adrian Rushton.

After attending a dance, Ethel Glover was walking back to RAF Tempsford with a group of service personnel when she was tragically struck and killed by an Army lorry. 📍Sutton-in-Ashfield Cemetery 🇬🇧

109 years ago today saw the opening of the 3rd Battle of Ypres. Haig’s long-awaited major offensive in Flanders, more popularly (but not more accurately) known as ‘Passchendaele’. #FWW #WW1 #gwg

Salome Otterbourne from Death on the Nile (1978) tangoes straight to the top of the icon list 💃🏼 Listen to our live podcast from our recent screening of it and Evil Under The Sun is out NOW wherever you get yours podcasts. podfollow.com/1631666318

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Some early Dad's Army casting options.

'The ring of success'. Angela Morton in The Stage and Television Today predicts a bright future for Dad's Army (8th August 1968)

'The Man and the Hour', the first episode of Dad's Army, was originally broadcast on this day in 1968.

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#OnThisDay during the #SiegeOfColchester - 31 July 1648, twenty Royalists with spades and a few with muskets went out at night pretending they were a working party. They passed one guard post but were fired upon by a second and had to retreat.

WO1 (RSM) Frank Hedges was a pre-war Regular in the RB. He was awarded the DCM for actions at Le Cateau in 1914 & the MC for actions at Ypres, in 1915. He tfrd to the Tank Corps & became RSM of 16th Bn. After the war he was RSM 2nd Bn. 100 years ago this month, in July 1926, he was awarded the MBE.

Company Serjeant Major Arthur Henry Godfrey, 419th (West Lancashire) Field Company, Royal Engineers, was killed in action on the opening day of the Third Battle of Ypres. The 34-year-old, from Ipswich, had previously been awarded the DCM. 📍 Wieltje Farm Cemetery 🇧🇪

Remembering Third Ypres: which began #OTD in 1917. An episode of @oldfrontline.bsky.social from 2021: oldfrontline.co.uk/2021/07/31/t...

Third Ypres RememberedOn 31st July 1917 the Third Battle of Ypres – or the Battle of Passchendaele as it is often called – began with an attack on a forteen mile front near the city of Ypres. In this Anniver…oldfrontline.co.uk

Men of a British Pioneer Battalion in light railway trucks and others moving towards the front line at Brielen on 31 July 1917 during the Battle of Pilckem Ridge, the opening attack of the Third Battle of Ypres. 📸 Lieutenant John Warwick Brooke / IWM (Q 5712)

Soldiers of the 7th Battalion, The Green Howards, during an anti-invasion exercise among the dunes at Sandbanks, near Poole in Dorset, on 31 July 1940. Along with the 6th Battalion, they formed part of 69th Infantry Brigade. 📸 Edward Malindine / IWM (H 2669)

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Charlie Chaplin meets Albert Einstein (1931). 📷 google images

PERSON OF THE DAY. 31 July 1956. England cricketer Jim Laker became 1st man to take all 10 wickets in a Test match innings, against Australia at Old Trafford in what became known as “Laker’s Match”. He took 19 wickets in the match in all, having taken 9 wickets for 37 runs in the 1st innings.

Time for tea. The British Army in North Africa 1942 A mobile tea canteen in the forward area, 31 July 1942. www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

On this day in 1968 Dad's Army first appeared on our screens.

Once pontoon bridges would have crossed the Ieper/Ijzer Canal during the First World War supplying front line areas, evacuating the wounded back across the canal to the Advanced Dressing Stations, over a hundred years later beautiful evening colours as the sun goes down on a tranquil Summer evening.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes - The Musgrave Ritual (30th July 1986). Called upon by Sir Reginald Musgrave (Michael Culver) to solve a mystery, Holmes does so - and also unearths a long-buried treasure.

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