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The Western Front Association's podcasts 'Mentioned in Dispatches' are an eclectic mix of relaxed discussions with all kinds of contributors: experts in their particular fields, authors, historians, performers, speakers, researches, museum archivists and curators which sometimes shine a light into areas of the first world war which are overlooked.

Ep 33 Photo History1 10B

25 September 2017

Podcast Guest: Dr Jane Orr

Ep. 33 – The “Spanish Flu” Pandemic 1917-19

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18 September 2017

Podcast Guest: Charles Messenger

Ep. 32 – Brigadier General Frank Crozier

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11 September 2017

Podcast Guest: Dr Vivien Newman

Ep. 31 – Women in Britain and Europe during the Great War

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4 September 2017

Podcast Guest: Andy Robertshaw

Ep. 30 – Joseph Steward’s Platoon

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Ep29 – Commemoration Of The Great War In Ireland – Dr Chris Manson

28 August 2017

Podcast Guest: Dr Chris Manson

Ep. 29 – Commemoration of the Great War in Ireland

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Ep28 – Military Recruitment In Ireland, 1916 – Dr William Butler

21 August 2017

Podcast Guest: Dr William Butler

Ep. 28 – Military Recruitment in Ireland, 1916

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Ep27 – Black Watch Volunteers In Dublin Before The First World War – Ian Montgomery

15 August 2017

Podcast Guest: Ian Montgomery

Ep. 27 – Black Watch volunteers in Dublin before the First World War

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Ep26 – Beyond The Somme – West Belfast’S Somme Service In Context – Prof Richard Grayson

7 August 2017

Podcast Guest: Prof Richard Grayson

Ep. 26 – Beyond the Somme – West Belfast’s Somme service in context

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Ep25 – Major General Nugent, The Ulster Division And Their Army Commanders In 1916 – Nicholas Perry (1)

31 July 2017

Podcast Guest: Nicholas Perry

Ep. 25 – Major General Nugent, the Ulster Division and their army commanders in 1916

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Ep24 – The First Battle Of The Scarpe (Arras) April 1917 – Jim Smithson

24 July 2017

Podcast Guest: Jim Smithson

Ep. 24 – The First Battle of the Scarpe (Arras) April 1917

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Ep23 – The Auxiliaries In Ireland’S War Of Independence – Paul O’Brien (1)

18 July 2017

Podcast Guest: Paul O'Brien

Ep. 23 – The Auxiliaries in Ireland’s War of Independence

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Ep22 – Donegall Pass Heroes Of The Great War Project – Ron Mcmurray

10 July 2017

Podcast Guest: Ron McMurray

Ep. 22 – Donegall Pass Heroes of the Great War Project

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Ep21 – Jutland And The Meaning Of Victory – Prof Andrew Lambert

8 July 2017

Podcast Guest: Prof Andrew Lambert

Ep. 21 – Jutland and the Meaning of Victory

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Ep20 – Sniping In The Great War – Martin Pegler

3 July 2017

Podcast Guest: Martin Pegler

Ep. 20 – Sniping in the Great War

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Animals In The Great War

26 June 2017

Podcast Guest: Lucinda Moore

Ep. 19 – Animals in the Great War

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19 June 2017

Podcast Guest: Dr Nick Lloyd

Ep. 18 – Passchendaele

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12 June 2017

Podcast Guest: Dr Peter Hodgkinson

Ep. 17 – Psychological survival in the trenches

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7 June 2017

Podcast Guest: Dr Tim Bowman

Ep. 16 – The Myths of the Irish at Messines

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5 June 2017

Podcast Guest: Piet Chielens

Ep. 15 – The Island of Ireland and the Great War in Flanders

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Ep 14 Fox Conner At Staff College 1910

29 May 2017

Podcast Guest: Steven Rabalais

Ep. 14 – General Fox Conner and the AEF in WW1

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